Southern Greece from October 1942 to September 1943; and Military Commander Greece from September 1943 to June 1944. The defendant Kurt von Geitner [ ... ]
government or of a superior does not free him from responsibility for a crime, but may be considered in mitigation." Pursuant to the provisions of [ ... ]
COURT NO. V, CASE NO. VII. and the commission of other acts of devastation not warranted by military necessity, in the occupied territories of Greece [ ... ]
democrats, nationalists, Jews and Gypsies - were seized, thrown into concentration camps, beaten, tortured, illtreated and murdered while other citi [ ... ]
made to give an all inclusive definition of international law, in fact, there is justification for the assertion that it ought not to be circumscrib [ ... ]
"and practices accepted by civilized nations generally", as it is used in international law, to the laws of war only. But the principle has no such [ ... ]
of superior officers whom they were obliged to obey, This brings into operation the rule just announced. The rule that superior order is not a def [ ... ]
paragraph 47 of the Military Penal Code, if the execution of an order in the ordinary course of duty involves such a violation of the law as is puni [ ... ]
an illegal order is in no sense of the word a valid law which one is obliged to obey. The fact that the British and American Armies may have adopte [ ... ]
upon the court to examine the sources of international law to determine the merits of such a plea. If the court finds that the army regulations of [ ... ]