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Good accurate answers here, in addition.
What is and isn’t a war crime is determined by the dominate power.
What is and isn’t a war crime is clearly laid out in the Geneva convention.
Even though there is established law it comes down to whom is enforcing the “law” and how they interpret it.
The “whom” that is enforcing the “law” is the victor in a War.
The West was the victor in WWII so the West got to determine what was and what wasn’t a “war crime” during that period of time.
The result was the “Nuremburg trials”, many precedents were set at this point.
The World in general deemed that the result of the Nuremburg trials was good and should set the precedent for how Nations should behave in regard to one another.
With the way the World is today it will be interesting to see how things play out from a legal perspective.
Dominate powers can and do do what ever they want, it doesn’t make it legal or moral much less ethical.
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