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JUDICIAL DECISIONS INVOLVING QUESTIONS OF

INTERNATIONAL LAW

GERMAN WAR TRIALS 1

SUPREME COURT AT LEIPZIG

JUDGMENT IN THE CASE OF KARL HEYNEN

Rendered May 26, 1921

IN THE NAME OF THE EMPIRE

In the criminal case against Karl Heynen, master cooper, of and born in Barmen on 22 June, 1875, for crimes and offences contrary to §§122, 55, 1, 121 Military Penal Code, and §74 Imperial Penal Code the Second Penal Senate of the Imperial Court of Justice at a Sitting in public on 26 May, 1921, at which there took part as Judges

The President of the Senate Dr. Schmidt and the Justices of the Imperial Court, Dr. Sabarth, Dr. Paul, Dr. Schultz, Dr. Kleine, Hagemann, Dr. Vogt.

As officials of the Public Prosecutor's Department.

The Oberreichsanwalt, Dr. Ebermayer and Dr. Feisenberger, Attorney for the State.

As Clerk of the Court.

Risch, Official,

after oral evidence.

The accused is condemned to ten (10) months' imprisonment on fifteen charges of ill-treating subordinates, and on three charges of insulting subordinates, and on charges of having treated subordinates contrary to the regulations; in other respects he is acquitted.

The detention during the enquiry is to be taken into account in the sentence passed.

The costs of the proceedings, in the cases in which the accused is condemned, are imposed upon him and in the cases, in which he is acquitted, they are to be borne by the Imperial Treasury.

The Treasury is to bear also in the first-mentioned cases all expenses, including the necessary expenses of the accused.

By Right

1British Parliamentary Command Paper No. 1450.

REASONS FOR THE DECISION

I. The accused served 1895-1897 with the 145th King's Infantry Regiment and in the year 1901, after training with the 138th Infantry Regiment, was promoted non-commissioned officer; he was called up in the autumn of 1914 as non-commissioned officer with the second Münster Landsturm Battalion. He took part in the campaign in Russia, was wounded on 29th December, 1914, on the Pelizza, then returned to Münster and was posted for a period of 7 months to the prisoners of war camp at Rheine. His camp commandant at that time, Deputy Officer Radenberg, has testified to his great zeal, absolute trustworthiness and faultless conduct. There has been no complaint of any kind of excess towards the Russian prisoners of war, who were placed under him and were occupied with agricultural work.

At the beginning of October, 1915, he was recalled to the first Münster prisoners' camp, in order to take over the command of the new prisoners' camp to be organized at shaft V of the "Friedrich der Grosse" mine near Herne. He received as his sentries a draft of 1 Lance Corporal and 12 Landsturm men, most of whom had only received their necessary training during the war.

There were placed under him 240 prisoners of war, of whom about 200 were English and 40 were Russians. They were to work in a colliery. This was kept secret from them, probably because it was foreseen that they might be unwilling to undertake such work. In fact they believed, from what they had been told, that they were to work at a sugar factory.

On 13 October, 1915, accused with his detachment of sentries and the prisoners left Münster for Herne. He had received no further orders than that he had to see to it that the prisoners undertook the work intended for them; he was to make his own arrangements; until his arrival in camp in Herne he was to keep silent about their place of destination and the work intended for them.

On the way already discontent became apparent among the prisoners, because they saw that they were going to be made to work in a mine. They vented their discontent by such utterances as "Nix Minen" and thus let it be understood that they would not work in a mine. It was impossible for the accused to make himself understood to the prisoners as he had not been allotted an interpreter.

II. After arrival at the railway station at Herne, the accused first endeavored to find amongst the English prisoners a man, who understood German sufficiently to be able to act to some extent as interpreter for his fellow prisoners. Such a man he found in the English prisoner Parry, who, however, at that time, had but little knowledge of German. Parry understood him only partially. In consequence the accused, according to Parry's statement which is considered to be credible, himself got angry and so irri

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