Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume IIIVarious
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Trials of war criminals before the Nuernberg military tribunals under control council law no. 10, volume III
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946; War crime trials -- Germany -- Nuremberg
In any event, in this case before this Tribunal, we shall ask
the Court to bear in mind that lawyers, by the very nature of
their legal training and experience, knew that the enactment of
_ex post facto_ laws, specially designed racial legislation
and other legislation directly designed to restrict and destroy
the right to make an adequate defense to a criminal charge; the
handpicking of judges and their control by state and party;
the submergence of the courts and prosecutors to the superior
authority of the police; pretrial agreement of judges and
prosecutor on judgment and penalty; unlawful extraterritorial
extension of German law and the issuance of the Nacht und Nebel
[Night and Fog] decree contrary to the laws of war, would
probably cause death of human beings, subjected to such a
perverted judicial system. These defendants are not farmers or
factory workers.
As to the third category, that of homicide resulting from the
intention to commit a felony or while resisting arrest, it is
not amiss to point out that those who are connected with a plan
to extend, or who consent to, or abet the unlawful extension of
German law and German courts into overrun countries contrary to
the laws of war, are doing acts which amount to larceny while
armed or robbery; and that those individuals who commit acts
which abet or are connected with the waging of an aggressive war
or a plan to do so, or who consent thereto, are resisting the
efforts of the peace enforcing nations of the world to arrest
the criminal. The evidence in this case will establish the
unprovocated homicide of countless numbers as the result of the
doing of such acts by these defendants which are clearly felony
murders.
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