General Staff, V. Geitner, who as simple reserve officer and not a lawyer had been a complete stranger to these problems up to the time of his trans [ ... ]
in international Law. And moreover it must have been clear to every German general in spite of this that the recognition of a hostile government in [ ... ]
the field units. The soldier of any army can demand and expect that the supreme command will at least be conscientious enough and have enough inter [ ... ]
possibility of disregarding an order by his superior was open to the German soldier only to a considerably narrower extent than was probably there c [ ... ]
the legal propriety of which even all the lawyers in the government offices above him never expressed any misgivings. [ ... ]
Still, it is to the credit of the sense of duty and responsibility of the Defendant V. Geitner, that we learn that, to make it quite sure, he even a [ ... ]
than the British manual", end of quotation, (which, incidentally,) considers the taking of hostages only as and I quote: "not recommendable pract [ ... ]
the Nazi party, end of quotation. The French occupation authorities had on 24 April 1945 a respected inhabitants of Reutlingen, who were in no way [ ... ]
do not become practical. For V. Geitner was in Serbia all the time active only as Chief of the General Staff of the Commanding General in that area [ ... ]
by the commander, entitled to lay down his dissenting opinion in the files; since the new regulation came into force in 1938, he was no longer entit [ ... ]