after all. It is to the credit of a conscientious judge who is only responsible to his conscience, to acknowledge an error which may have occurred [ ... ]
who, although having previously been the enemies of the accused soldiers, now, however, feel as their comrades, of judges who themselves served in t [ ... ]
views, especially in a situation where the unusual conditions in the course of a total war are in question. And this experience to a special degree [ ... ]
ordinary convicts. This treatment of the case was evidently based on the quite wrong assumption that, only through the release from the status of p [ ... ]
Among all professional officers he is the only reserve officer. This distinction has a certain significance for the judgement of the facts: It is [ ... ]
in any case, and to retain for the German Wehrmacht its reputation of chivalry and soldierly decency. However, particularly in as far as the defend [ ... ]
THE MARSHAL: Persons in the Courtroom please take their seats. The Tribunal is again in session. [ ... ]
of a battalion and at the most of a regiment; on the other hand, he received no training in the command of larger troop units in the new German Army [ ... ]
At that time reprisal measures and similar matters were something absolutely new to him; such measures had not existed in his earlier spheres of act [ ... ]
have been questioned in any way as contrary to international law. With reference to this, the proceedings in this trial have provided a brilliant ex [ ... ]