The rules of war: The Geneva Conventions after the Second World War and the Shoah

With the passage of time, and especially as military confrontations unfolded, the law of war became more precise. The first Geneva Convention in 1864 was just the beginning, inventing international humanitarian law. But after the Second World War, its devastating battles and the unbearable toll of the enterprise to exterminate Europe's Jews, the conclusion was stark: it wasn't enough.