August 1945 - London Agreement —first definition of “crime against humanity”
- Article 6(c): “crime against humanity” includes: “murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds…whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.”
- Signed by France, Soviet Union, United Kingdom, and the United States establishing the International Military Tribunal