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International Law Keyed to Damrosche
The Justice Case” (Case 3), United States v. Josef Altstoetter et al
Facts
A series of trial took place at Nuremberg after the end of the Second World War and some other locations in Germany under the Control Council Law No. 10 (C.C. Law 10). The Control Council consist of U.S. (P), U.S.S.R (P), France (P) and England (P) representatives respectively and it also governed occupied Germany. Trials were held before U.S. judges in U.S. occupied zones. In order to try what was called the “Justice Case” where the Defendants (D) were judges in the Nazi regime, the U.S. Military Government for Germany created the Military Tribunal III in 1947.Among the charges brought against the defendants were “judicial murder and other atrocities which they committed by destroying law and justice in Germany, utilization of empty forms of legal process for the persecution, enslavement and extermination on a large scale”, conspiracy to commit war crimes against civilians in German-occupied territories (including German civilians and nationals), against soldiers of countries at war with Germany and crimes against humanity. Some of the accused were charged as being members of the SS, SD and Nazi Party leadership corps, all of which had been declared criminal organizations. Although all the defendants pleaded not guilty, the Military Tribunal III gave its judgment.
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