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Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 05 October 1949

Legal documentation from the trial of German Army Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, held in the British Military Court in Hamburg, 05 October 1949 Erich von Manstein is called to the stand. (p. 3) Opening speech by the Defense: (pp. 4-27) Opening of the Defense of von Manstein (p. 5); Discussion regarding International Law, The Hague Convention, Law of Nations, and the Statute of Nuremberg (pp. 6-12); Field Marshal Montgomery at Glasgow, 28/10/1946: No legal limit to the duty of a general officer to obey (p. 12); Adolf Hitler had the sovereign authority (p. 15); Regarding the judgment in the Von...

File Number : 22

Type of Material : Indictment, Names of Perpetrators, Legal Documentation

Language : English

Testimony of Eli Zana, born in Sfax, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Sfax camp and in the Free French Army

Testimony

Testimony of Eli Zana, born in Sfax, 1913, regarding his experiences in the Sfax camp and in the Free French Army Childhood in a traditional family; living in a mixed neighborhood; good relations with the non-Jews around him; studies automotive mechanics at an Alliance trade school. Outbreak of the war; entry of the Germans, November 1942; drafted to forced labor in the "open labor camp" in Sfax; labors in an oil plant; labors unloading ammunition from German ships at the Sfax port; camp life; liberation by the British Army, 14 April 1943. Drafted into the FFL, the Free French Army; participates in the...

File Number : 8976

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : French