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The Military Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2017

A. Wigfall Green
A. Wigfall Green*
Affiliation:
University of Mississippi
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Extract

The spotlight which has played on the international military trials at Nuremberg and elsewhere has left in relative darkness and obscurity the trials by the military commission of the American fighting and occupation forces.

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Research Article
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 1948 , pp. 832 - 848
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 1948

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References

1 Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression (Washington, 1946), Vol. I, p. 2.

2 Cf.Winthrop, William, Military Law and Precedents (Washington, 1920), pp. 832-833.Google Scholar

3 7 Fed. Beg. 5103.

4 Ex parte Quirin, 317 U. 8. 1.

5 FM 27-5, OPNAV 50E-3.

6 OPNAV 13-23.

7 11 Op. Atty. Gen. 298.

8 Birkhimer, William E.,Military Government and Martial Law (3rd ed., Kansas City,1914), p. 51.Google Scholar

9 Winthrop, op. cit., p. 838; Birkhimer, op. cit., p. 153

10 Chapter 2, Title 18, USCA, 21-39, defines offenses against neutrality. See alsoArticle 17, Hague Convention No. IV (paragraph 400,FM 27-10); paragraph 108,Handbook for Military Government in Germany; and Oppenheim, op. cit., pp. 218-219.

11 Garner, James W., International Law and the World War, Vol. II, pp. 478-480.Google Scholar

12 Digest of Opinions of The Judge Advocate General, 1912, p. 1067.

13 Ibid., p. 1068.