This is an elaboration on Anatole's definitions of the crimes with which the defendants were charged:
1. Crimes against Peace there were two of these: namely, (a) planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements, or assurances, or (b) participation in a Common Plan or Conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing.
2. War Crimes: namely, violations of the laws and customs of war, including murder, ill-treatment of prisoners of war, or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder,. . . wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
3. Crimes Against Humanity: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhuman acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war, or persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds . . . in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
Cited from: Eugene Davidson, The Trial of the Germans: An Account of the Twenty-two Defendants before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (Columbia, 1966) who quotes The London Agreement