ABSTRACT
Prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide and of crimes against humanity sits at the core of modern international criminal justice. Indeed, it has been central since the first suggestion that a country's leaders might be put on trial for an attempt to destroy a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. An early draft of the declaration revealed in archival research indicates that the original formulation of the three "Powers" was "crimes against Christianity and civilization". In replacing the word "Christianity" with "humanity", those who finalized the text of the declaration transformed the nature of what was being charged. The Turks tried a few of their own for the crimes immediately following the end of the war, as Taner Akçam and Vahakn Dadrian have demonstrated in Judgment at Istanbul. More attention is required with respect to the claim that the Nuremberg Tribunal failed to deal properly with the crimes of the Allies.
