ACQUITTED
NUREMBERG. An American war crimes court acquitted 13 of Germany's top commanders of plotting to launch the Second World War.
The court, completing a nine-months trial of three field-marshals, five generals, an admiral and four lieutenantgenerals, said they were not policy makers.
Tit judgment said: “Thd acts womma'ders and stafWfFxcers below ‘policy’ level in planning campaigns, preparing the means foiy carrying them out, mov- ! ing against a country on orders and fighting a war after it had been instituted do not constitute the planning, preparation, initiation and waging of war or the initiation of an invasion that international law denounces as criminal.”
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Northern Advocate, 28 October 1948, Page 6
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103ACQUITTED Northern Advocate, 28 October 1948, Page 6
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