July 27, 1929: The Geneva Convention–world history and facts

July 27, 1929: The Geneva Convention



On July 27, 1929, Germany and other leading countries signed the Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War in Geneva.

This international agreement built on the earlier Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 to increase protections for prisoners of war.

The convention was one of several important international agreements regulating war in the 1920s.

The Geneva Protocol (1925) updated restrictions relating to the use of poison gas. In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact renounced war as a national policy.


These postwar agreements were an attempt to update international law in a way that would prevent another conflict as destructive as World War I.

However, the dominant attitude within the German army was that military necessity always outweighed international law.

Like many other nations, Germany bent or broke the rules when it found it advantageous to do so.



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