Before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Nicaragua has placed Germany in the uncomfortable position of defending its arms sales to Israel against accusations of complicity in genocide — a charge that cuts directly against the very treaty Germany helped write in the wake of the Holocaust. The case asks a question that international law has rarely been forced to answer so directly: at what point does a weapons supplier become morally and legally bound to the consequences of those weapons? Germany, a nation whose modern identity is inseparable from its historical reckoning with mas