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The Sword and the Gavel. By the Last of the Nuremberg Judges, William J. Wilkins. Seattle: The Writing Works, 1981. Pp. vii, 328. Index. 111. $14.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1982

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References

1 9 Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals 455, 455- 56, 466 (1950). Regrettably, the book only cites (p. 209) some passages of this 12-page concurring opinion, and omits mentioning Wilkins’s Dissenting Opinion on the Dismissal of Certain of the Charges of Spoliation (id. at 1455-84), which also contains highly significant doctrinal statements on the law of armed conflict.

2 Art. III(6) of Allied Control Council Law No. 10 of December 20, 1945 under which the American Nuremberg trials were held, only authorized each Zone Commander to distribute property forfeited by the war crimes courts “as he may deem proper in the interest of justice” but not to set aside any court’s forfeiting order.

3 By 1973 (!), under a settlement reached by a Jewish organization after years of negotiations, eventually 3,090 still surviving former Krupp slave laborers received DM 10,050,900, equivalent 10 a maximum of $825 per person. Heirs of Jewish nonsurvivors, and non-Jewish survivors and i heir heirs, received nothing. See B. Ferencz, Less Than Slaves 100, 210 (1979). For a review of Ferencz’s book, see this Journal, 75 AJIL 702-04 (1981).