The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- The speaker believes executing enemy agents followed international law.
- In plain terms
- He thinks killing spies was legal under the Hague Convention.
- What can you take from it?
- Executions were justified by military necessity.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- When does war justify killing?
Another view
This ignores the brutality of the actual acts.
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