Re Hoffmann

JurisdictionDinamarca
Date21 September 1948
Docket NumberCase No. 191
CourtEastern Provincial Court (Denmark)
Denmark, Eastern Provincial Court.
Case No. 191
In re Hoffmann.

Belligerent Occupation — Treatment of Civilian Population — Members of Resistance Movements — Legal Status of Resistance Movement — Limits of Self-Defence and Self-Preservation.

The Facts.—The accused, a member of the German Security Police in occupied Denmark, had in 1944–1945 in several cases ill-treated and tortured, or ordered the ill-treatment and torture, of Danish subjects who had been arrested as being members of the resistance...

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