blacksmith nor the horse is held accountable by the commanding general. He is not interested in hearing that an order miscarried because of the obst [ ... ]
with that unquestionably criminal mandate. All have admitted having received the order or at least having been apprised of its contents. Now it shou [ ... ]
the directives handed down from higher echelons, that disapproval would have manifested itself immediately in a hundred different ways. If they were [ ... ]
and Commando and Military Mission orders were valid, even though they, too, stemmed from the evil triumviato in Berlin. Nor, on other occasions, whe [ ... ]
The execution of hostages, the burning of villages and the shooting of captured partisans was, therefore, a case of military necessity.
Court V Case VII The argument of the defense of military necessity is unconvincing here for several reasons. In the first place, it is the prosec [ ... ]
resulted in a stiffening of partisan resistance in the areas where these measures were carried out. We need not here go into a long refutation of w [ ... ]
Court V Case VII application of this method of restoring quiet to the Balkans. It not only failed but it stirred up such a hornet's nest of resis [ ... ]
Court V Case VII based upon the capitulation of Greece and Yugoslavia. The legal theory of the defense on this point seems to be this -- when an [ ... ]
Court V Case VII First, prisoners of war may be set at liberty on parole only if the laws of their country allow and there has, of course, been n [ ... ]