Just like the use of chemical weapons and unrestricted submarine warfare, which were clearly illegal under previous agreements. But wasn’t the British blockade actually illegal according to previous agreements?
Asker: Jonathan, 34 years old
Answer
It was completely illegal and the first impetus for the mass extermination of civilians in wartime, here indirectly (the many people who died of starvation)
Jonathan Glover makes that escalation very clear in Humanity. A moral history of the 20th century. Highly recommended reading!
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Prof. dr. dr. Gie van den Berghe
morality, ethics, history of Nazi camps and genocides, eyewitness accounts, the Enlightenment, eugenics, Darwinism, historical photographs, transhumanism
university of Ghent
http://www.ugent.be
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