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Volume V · Page 3
| Responsibility of
Subordinates for Acts carried out upon Superior Orders — It was
alleged by the defense that the defendants acted under superior orders in
performing the acts charged as criminal in the indictment. The defense stressed
the point that superior orders in a totalitarian state left no possibility for
the recipient to object to them or to evade them. This argument was by defense
counsel for the defendant Hofmann in his closing statement, extracts of which
appear on pp. 26 to 28. This is followed by documentary evidence of the defense
on this subject on pp. 28 to 29. Extracts from the Closing Statement of the Prosecution — Argument of the prosecution on the general defenses and special issues treated above has been selected only from the closing statement of the prosecution. This argument appears on pp. 30 to Since the prosecution has treated many of these defenses together in its final argument, it was not practical to break down the argument according to topics as has been done in the case of the defense material in the preceding sections. |
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| B. Selections
from the Arguments and Evidence of the Defense |
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| I. GENOCIDE | |
| TRANSLATION OF GREIFELT DOCUMENT I GREIFELT DEFENSE EXHIBIT I |
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| EXTRACT FROM NEWSPAPER ARTICLE "UNITED NATIONS CONVENTION AGAINST GENOCIDE", 13 JULY 1947, AS PUBLISHED IN THE NEUE ZEITUNG | |
| Extract from
the "Neue Zeitung" of 14 July 1947, 3d year (No. 56, p. 5 ) "UN Convention against Genocide" |
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| Washington 13 July (DENA/CANS) | |
| On 10 June the Secretary's Office of the United Nations completed the first draft of an international convention for the punishment of government officials who attempted to exterminate racial, religious, national, or political groups. This draft establishes the extermination of large groups or of a whole people as a punishable act according to international law and calls upon member states of the United Nations to pass legislation to that | |
