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the Second World War, military law expanded the scope and deepened the definition of command responsibility, by imposing criminal liability upon commanding officers who fail to prevent their soldiers from committing war crimes against prisoners of war and atrocities against civilians. The last two war-crime trials of the subsequent Nuremberg trials (1946-1949), explicitly discussed the requisite standard of the mens rea (a guilty mind) for war crimes to occur,

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