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To: Thomas M. who wrote (775)	3/31/2003 5:36:10 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 1296

After WWII, the International Military Tribunal convened in Nuremberg, Germany. Created by the victorious Allies, the Tribunal sentenced to prison or execution numerous Nazis who pleaded that they had been "only following orders". In an opinion handed down by the Tribunal, it declared that "the very essence of the Charter is that individuals have international duties which transcend the national obligations of obedience imposed by the individual state." During the Vietnam War, a number of young Americans refused military service on the grounds that the United States was committing war crimes in Vietnam and that if they took part in the war they to, under the principles laid down at Nuremberg, would be guilty of war crimes. One of the most prominent of these cases was that of David Mitchell of Connecticut. At Mitchell's trial in September 1965, Judge William Timbers dismissed his defense as "tommyrot" and "degenerate subversion", and found the Nuremberg principles to be "irrelevant" to the case. Mitchell was sentenced to prison. >>> Blum - Killing Hope - p133

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