8 sentences with “innocent”

Why should an innocent five-year-old have to carry the burden of such ideas, I thought.

Burke himself was particularly aggrieved by the execution of the French queen Marie Antoinette, whom he saw as a perfectly innocent victim.

-"These psychological maladies," said Mr. Fitweiler, "always cause the most innocent and unlikely person to be attributed with the cause of ... ahem ... of persecutions.

Each purge was designed to, at least in part, purge the purgers of the past, blaming them for "excesses" that had killed innocent people - this, of course, simply led to the murder of more innocents.

Many members of the Einsatzgruppen (German mobile killing squads) suffered from mental breakdowns from murdering innocent people day after day. There were never many Einsatzgruppen to begin with: four teams with about 6,000 soldiers assigned to them in total.

The Romans were the first to codify the idea that someone accused of a crime was innocent until proven guilty; this was a totally radical idea in the field of justice, which in the rest of the ancient world normally considered the accused guilty unless guilt could be conclusively disproved.

In other words, many 'regular soldiers', not just Nazi party members, were responsible for killing innocent men, women and children, often for days at a time and at point-blank range. This aspect of the Holocaust is known today as the "Holocaust by bullets", an aspect that historians overlooked for many decades after the war.

The Holocaust was one of the great traumas associated with the Second World War. It forced the Western world to confront the fact that a highly advanced and "civilised" nation in the heart of Europe - Germany - had been responsible not only for initiating a horrific and bloody war, but for carrying out the systematic murder of millions of completely innocent people.