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   WHAT THE SUPERPOWER’S    
   DECLARATION OF WORLD $LAVERY    
   MEANS   
      
      
      
      
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   A *PRE*-HISTORY OF THE WORLD TYRANT II    
      
      
      
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   JUDGING THE WAR CRIMINALS    
      
   By A. N. TRAINlN    
      
   [Part I]    
      
      
   War, with all its cruelty and bloodshed, is not a natural element where   
   absolute liberty of action and unbridled cruelty reign supreme.  On the   
   contrary, there exist --and this is one of mankind's most valuable   
   achievements-- active international    
   conventions which divert the raging torrent of warfare into regular channels   
   bounded by law and custom.  These conventions forbid the employment of certain   
   methods of warfare, the torture of prisoners of war and of sick and wounded   
   soldiers, the killing    
   and plunder of civilians, and the destruction of cultural treasures. The more   
   perfected weapons of destruction become the greater the significance which the   
   Hague and Geneva Conventions have for mankind, and the more obligatory becomes   
   their fulfillment    
   by every state associated with them.  Germany signed the Hague and Geneva   
   Conventions.  Germany, like other states, solemnly undertook the observance of   
   these conventions.  But what are the facts?    
      
   In the wars which preceded the present world war Germany invariably employed   
   the "strategy" of cruelty and destruction, the "Prussian strategy" based on   
   the systematic violation of the laws and customs of war.  "General   
   indignation," wrote Marx on the    
   behavior of the Germans in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, "has been   
   aroused by the methods of conducting warfare: the system of requisitioning,    
   burning of villages, the shooting of francs-tireurs, and the taking of   
   hostages."    
      
   Wilhelm II made the following cynical appeal to German soldiers before they   
   left for the Chinese front in 1900: "When you meet them, remember, no quarter   
   and no prisoners.  Whoever falls into your hands must die.  Like the Huns   
   under the leadership of    
   King Atilla who made a name for themselves a thousand years ago which has made   
   them terrible in tradition and history, so let the name 'Germans' in China   
   become, through you, so famous that in a thousand years to come no Chinese   
   will even dare to glance    
   sideways at a German."    
      
   Fourteen years passed and the bandit face of German imperialism became even   
   more sharply defined.  In the very first days of the war of 1914-18, Wilhelm   
   II wrote to the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph: "Everything must be drowned in   
   fire and blood, men and    
   women, children and the aged must be killed, not a house or a tree must be   
   left standing."  The terrorist methods of warfare recommended by Wilhelm in   
   1914-18 were extensively carried out in practice.  Special commissions of   
   investigation set up in    
   Belgium, France, Great Britain, and Russia at the time investigated and   
   established many cases of murder, the torture of civilians, prisoners, and   
   wounded, and the destruction of private and public buildings.  The seventh   
   chapter of the Versailles Peace    
   Treaty on "Sanctions" deals with questions of the criminal responsibility for   
   the crimes committed by Wilhelm II and his accomplices in 1914-18.  "Allied   
   and Associated Powers," says article 227 of the Versailles Treaty, "arraign   
   Wilhelm II of    
   Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against   
   international morality and the sanctity of treaties."  In a note dated January   
   15, 1919, the Allied powers demanded from Holland the surrender of the former   
   German Emperor, Wilhelm II.     
   The note referred to Wilhelm's violation of international treaties and the   
   sacred rights of man and to the necessity of the observance of the high   
   principles of international morals.  In their reply the Netherlands, referring   
   to laws and traditions,    
   refused to surrender Wilhelm.  Holland's refusal put an end to the question   
   concerning the criminal responsibility of the head of the German state for   
   what the Versailles Treaty had called "insult to international morals and the   
   sacred powers of treaties.   
   "    
      
   The attempts at organizing a court to try Wilhelm's accomplices, also guilty   
   of violating the laws and customs of warfare, were more prolonged but equally   
   without result.  On February 3, 1920, Millerand sent a letter to Baron   
   Lersner, chairman of the    
   German peace delegation in Paris, giving a list of the persons to be   
   surrendered to the Allied powers under article 228 of the Versailles Treaty.    
   Great Britain demanded the surrender of ninety-eight persons (among them   
   Admiral Tirpitz), France 344 (   
   among them Hindenburg), Belgium fifty-one, Rumania forty-one (among them   
   Mackensen), Italy thirty-nine.  Altogether the Allies demanded that Germany   
   surrender 890 persons. They included the Chancellor Bethman-Holweg,   
   Ludendorff, Crown Prince Ruprecht,    
   the Duke of Wurtemberg and others.  Although Baron Lersner had received a   
   letter from Berlin on January 31, 1920, a few days before he was handed the   
   Allied note, in which he was given categorical instructions to accept and   
   forward to Berlin any such    
   note, should he be handed it, Lersner returned the letter to Millerand.    
   Germany's efforts to escape responsibility were not in vain.  In a note dated   
   February 16, 1920, the Allied powers stated that they "duly acknowledged the   
   announcement made by the    
   German government to the effect that persons guilty of violating the laws and   
   customs of war would be handed over to the Imperial Court at Leipzig."  In   
   view of the situation which had developed Germany did not show any great haste   
   in bringing cases    
   before the Leipzig Imperial Court. In March 1921, according to the telegram   
   from London, "the General Attorney stated in the House of Commons that to date   
   none of the German violators of the rules of warfare had been handed over to   
   the court by Germany."    
    In May 1921, the Leipzig court heard the case of ex-Sergeant Heinen, accused   
   of cruel treatment of British prisoners of war in the camp at Muenster.  A   
   special British mission watched the proceedings of the trial. Heinen was   
   sentenced...to ten months    
   imprisonment. Almost all the trials heard by this court ended with the same   
   ridiculous sentences.  One of the greatest tragedies in the annals of mankind   
   ended, therefore, in a comedy.    
      
      
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