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cation or necessity. These acts violated Articles 46
and 50 of the Hague Regulations, 1907, the laws and customs of war, the
general principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of
all civilized nations, the internal penal laws of the countries in which
such crimes were committed, and Article 6 (b) of the Charter.
Particulars,
by way of example only and without prejudice to the production of
evidence of other cases, are as follows:
1. Western Countries:
In March 1941 part of Lofoten in Norway was destroyed. In
April 1942 the town of Telerag in Norway was destroyed.
Entire
villages were destroyed in France, among others, Oradour sur Glane,
Saint Nizier in Gascogne, La Mure, Vassieu, La Chappelle en Vercors. The
town of Saint Die was burnt down and destroyed. The Old Port District of
Marseilles was dynamited in the beginning of 1943 and resorts along the
Atlantic and the Mediterranean coasts, particularly the town of Sanary,
were demolished.
In Holland there was most widespread and
extensive destruction, not justified by military necessity, including
the destruction of harbors, locks, dykes, and bridges; immense
devastation was also caused by inundations which equally were not
justified by military necessity.
(H) Conscription of civilian
labor.
Throughout the occupied territories the defendants
conscripted and forced the inhabitants to labor and requisitioned their
services for purposes other than meeting the needs of the armies of
occupation and to an extent far out of proportion to the resources of
the countries involved. All the civilians so conscripted were forced to
work for the German war effort. Civilians were required to register and
many of those who registered were forced to join the Todt Organization
and the Speer Legion, both of which were semi-military organizations
involving some military training. These acts violated Articles 46 and 52
of the Hague Regulations, 1907, the laws and customs of war, the general
principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of all
civilized nations, the internal penal laws of the countries in which
such crimes were committed, and Article 6 (b) of the Charter.
Particulars,
by way of example only and without prejudice to the production of
evidence of other cases, are as follows:
1. Western Countries:
In France, from 1942 to 1944, 963,813 persons were compelled
to work in Germany and 737,000 to work in France for the German Army.
In Luxembourg, in 1944 alone, 2,500 men and 500 girls were
conscripted for forced labor.
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