What is "war criminal"

Usage examples of "war criminal".

He held very senior positions in both the German Navy and the Nazi Party and, like others similarly placed, used his power to feather his own nest-just as Hermann Goering did-when the war was seen to be lost, although he was smarter than Goering and managed to get out from under before the war criminal roundup.

It had come from the Scotland Yard unit investigating war criminal residency in Britain after London's highly publicized legal extension of the statute of limitations.

He waited, then said, 'Somehow I don't see Marcy Clure Tyson aiding and abetting a suspected war criminal.

He had taken no part in the attack on non-combatants at the Stora Mine, but he was quite certain to be tried as a war criminal for his part in the poison gas attack in the Dales.

Can you tell me why a war criminal sure to draw the hangman’.

Although deposed in 1944 and executed as a war criminal by the Communists in 1946, Antonescu was, in 1990, considered the most popular figure in twentieth-century Roman ian history, towering above any member of the former royal family.

Josef Mengele, the Nazi war criminal who directed merciless human experiments, may have decided to come back, as a woman.

Goering and managed to get out from under before the war criminal roundup.

He's going to surrender peacefully, be executed at the Yasukuni Shrine as a common war criminal, and the Japanese navy will be here in three days.

It is clear to everyone that the file clerk Marritza orchestrated the entire masquerade so that he would be arrested as a ruthless war criminal.