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Important Nuremberg legal document, the Judgement for the ''Hostages'' trial, owned by Edward F. Carter, one of the trial's three presiding judges. The Hostages trial, conducted from 8 July 1947 to 19 February 1948, was the seventh of the 12 military tribunals conducted by the U.S. military in Nuremberg for war crimes against military and business leaders of Nazi Germany. This trial prosecuted German generals leading the Balkans campaign in southeastern Europe, who had conducted war crimes against civilian hostages, thus the name, formally titled ''Military Tribunal V / Case No. 7 / United States of America v. Wilhelm List [et al]''. Lengthy Judgement runs 123pp, with the first two pages reading in part, ''...They are charged with being principals in and accessories to the murder of thousands of persons from the civilian population of Greece, Yugoslavia, Norway and Albania between September 1939 and May 1945 by the use of troops of the German Armed Forces under the command of and acting pursuant to orders issued, distributed and executed by the defendants...these defendants participated in a deliberate scheme of terrorism and intimidation wholly unwarranted and unjustified by military necessity by the murder, ill-treatment and deportation to slave labor of prisoners of war and members of civilian populations...by plundering and pillaging public and private property, and wantonly destroying cities, towns and villages for which there was no military necessity...'' Bound with a brad at center, entire report measures 8.5'' x 13.25''. With paper label, ''Military Tribunal V'' on cover. Moderate to heavy chipping to paper covers, interior pages remain very good to near fine. Accompanied by two funeral cards for Judge Edward F. Carter, who would go onto serve as a Judge on Nebraska's Supreme Court after Nuremberg.
Original Nuremberg Trials ''Opinion & Judgement'' for the 1947-48 ''Hostages Trial'', Owned by Presiding Judge Edward F. Carter
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