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War Crimes (Preventive Murder) (Germany) Case.

German Federal Republic.  30 September 1960 .

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

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Abstract

War — Enforcement of the laws of war — Punishment of war crimes — Defence of reprisals — Defence of superior orders — Murder of foreign forced labourers — Defence that murder justifiable as reprisal for illegal acts of warfare by enemy States — Whether knowledge of illegality of order by superior relevant.

Keywords

War
Type
Case Report
Information
International Law Reports , Volume 32 , 1966 , pp. 563 - 565
Copyright
© Cambridge University Press 1966

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