Report of Robert H. Jackson: United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials, London, 1945. A Documentary Record of Negotiations of the Representatives of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Culminating in the Agreement and Charter of the International Military TribunalU.S. Government Printing Office, 1949 - 441 páginas |
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Página iii
... international law or conduct trials , hearings , or arbitrations on an international level may find the origins , evolution , and background of this agreement instruc- tive . Students of comparative law , as well as the legal profession ...
... international law or conduct trials , hearings , or arbitrations on an international level may find the origins , evolution , and background of this agreement instruc- tive . Students of comparative law , as well as the legal profession ...
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United States Representative to the International Conference on Military ... World War II , found itself in possession of high - ranking prisoners . Many of them ... law countries and , with some variations between their procedures , they ...
United States Representative to the International Conference on Military ... World War II , found itself in possession of high - ranking prisoners . Many of them ... law countries and , with some variations between their procedures , they ...
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... international law in general , they do not submit themselves to the general mass of customary law deduced from the practice of western states . With dissimilar back- grounds in both penal law and international law it is less surprising ...
... international law in general , they do not submit themselves to the general mass of customary law deduced from the practice of western states . With dissimilar back- grounds in both penal law and international law it is less surprising ...
Página viii
... international crimes could only be defined in broad terms appli- cable to statesmen of any nation guilty of the ... law - governed society of nations . The charter is something of a landmark , both as a sub- stantive code defining crimes ...
... international crimes could only be defined in broad terms appli- cable to statesmen of any nation guilty of the ... law - governed society of nations . The charter is something of a landmark , both as a sub- stantive code defining crimes ...
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... law of the country where perpetrated . The most significant results of applying these definitions as the law of nations are to outlaw wars of aggression and to lift to the level of an international offense the persecution of minorities ...
... law of the country where perpetrated . The most significant results of applying these definitions as the law of nations are to outlaw wars of aggression and to lift to the level of an international offense the persecution of minorities ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accused acts aggression agree agreement Allied American draft appointed atrocities bunal charges charter Chief Prosecutors Chiefs of Counsel Commission committed common plan Conference consider Control Council conviction countries crimes criminal plan DAVID MAXWELL FYFE defendants discussion documents established European Axis Powers evidence execution French Germany Gestapo guilty Hitlerite indictment individual international law International Military Tribunal international tribunal JUDGE FALCO JUSTICE JACKSON leaders LORD CHANCELLOR major criminals major war criminals ment Moscow Declaration Nazi NIKITCHENKO Nürnberg occupation courts offenses officers organization paragraph parties persons prepared President principle prisoners procedure PROFESSOR GROS PROFESSOR TRAININ proof proposal prosecution punishment question referred representatives responsibility rules sentence Signatories SIR DAVID MAXWELL SIR THOMAS BARNES Soviet Delegation Soviet Union submitted suggested territory tion treaties trial tried United Kingdom United Nations violation of international war crimes war of aggression witnesses words
Pasajes populares
Página 56 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war has been issued, the High Contracting Parties deem it expedient to declare that, in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, the inhabitants and the belligerents remain under the protection and the rule of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity, and the dictates of the public conscience.
Página 411 - HUMANITY: namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war; or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of the domestic law of the country where perpetrated.1 Leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan...
Página 37 - Germany, those German officers and men and members of the Nazi Party who have been responsible for or have taken a consenting part in the above atrocities, massacres, and executions will be sent back to the countries in which their abominable deeds were done in order that they may be judged and punished according to the laws of these liberated countries and of the free Governments which will be erected therein.
Página 288 - State; 2. Invasion by its armed forces, with or without a declaration of war, of the territory of another State ; 3.
Página 412 - The official position of defendants, whether as Heads of State or responsible officials in Government Departments, shall not be considered as freeing them from responsibility or mitigating punishment.
Página 411 - Namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations shall include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or illtreatment of prisoners of war or persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.
Página 404 - Article 6 The Tribunal established by the Agreement referred to in Article 1 hereof for the trial and punishment of the major war criminals of the European Axis countries shall have the power to try and punish persons who, acting in the interests of the European Axis countries, whether as individuals or as members of organizations, committed any of the following crimes.
Página 21 - The above declaration is without prejudice to the case of German criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical localization and who will be punished by joint decision of the governments of the Allies.
Página 192 - Now therefore the Government of the United States of America, the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
Página 195 - The fact that the Defendant acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior shall not free him from responsibility, but may be considered in mitigation of punishment if the Tribunal determines that justice so requires.