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Originally Posted by odybvig
The Geneva Conventions is from 1949 and does not inflict WW2
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That... is not exactly the case. The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties, and three additional protocols, that establish the standards of international law for the humanitarian treatment of war. The singular term Geneva Convention usually denotes the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of the Second World War (1939–45), which updated the terms of the first three treaties (1864, 1906, 1929), and added a fourth. The Geneva Conventions extensively defined the basic rights of wartime prisoners (civilians and military personnel); established protections for the wounded; and established protections for the civilians in and around a war-zone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Conventions
Thus, one might refer to Geneva Treaties for the WW2 period, but the fact remains that the shot-down airmen were incapable or out of combat, and strafing them was a war crime, no matter which side committed the act.