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Tribunal judgment on the Hostage Case, reviewing trial issues and evidence, with sentences
NMT 7
Authors
Edward F. Carter (judge, NMT 7)
Edward F. Carter
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George J. Burke (judge, NMT 7)
George J. Burke
American judge
- Born: 1886-01-01
- Died: 1950-10-03
- Occupation: judge
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/248145542840096642382
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2016010994
- Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2016010994
Charles F. Wennerstrum (judge, NMT 7)
Charles F. Wennerstrum
American lawyer
- Born: 1889-10-11 (Cambridge)
- Died: 1986-06-01 1986-06-15 (Des Moines)
- Country of citizenship: United States of America
- Occupation: judge; lawyer
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/313298938
- WorldCat Identities ID: https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no2015002426
- Library of Congress authority ID: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015002426
Date: 19 February 1948
Defendants: Ernst Dehner, Hellmuth Felmy, Hermann Foertsch, Kurt Geitner, von, Walter Kuntze, Hubert Lanz, Ernst Leyser, von, Wilhelm List, Lothar Rendulic, Wilhelm Speidel, Maximilian Weichs, von
Total Pages: 146
Language of Text: English
Citation: NMT 7 (page 10419)
HLSL Item No.: 152052
Notes:This copy of the judgment is taken from a copy of the trial transcript, pages 10419-10544. No judgment was made regarding von Weichs since his case had been severed due to illness. The text is underlined in pencil where certain trial issues are introduced, a defendant's case is first discussed, and where guilty/not guilty verdicts are announced.
Trial Issues
Civilians, mistreatment of, including murder, imprisonment, deportation, f… Destruction of cities, villages, houses, and farms (etc.), looting of prop… Partisan fighters (and commandos), operations against, and treatment of (I… Hostage-taking and reprisal actions, including killings and fines (IMT, NM… Concentration camp system (administration, forced labor, abuse of inmates)… Persecution of political, religious, and ethnic ("racial") groups (IMT, NM… Superior orders, plea of (IMT, NMT 7, 9) Jurisdiction of the NMT over German POWs (NMT 7) Italian soldiers and officers, treatment of after change of sides in 1943 … Commissar Order and execution of Communists (IMT, NMT 7, 9, 12) Norway, evacuation of and destruction in (IMT, NMT 7)