Defense Summation 'M' (Defense Doc. No. 3093)
Defense Summation 'M' (Defense Doc. No. 3093)
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Language | English |
Collection | Tavenner Papers & IMTFE Official Records |
Box | Box 6 |
Folder | General Reports and Memoranda from March 1948 |
Repository | University of Virginia Law Library |
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Five page document that gives the page and line number along with an analysis comment regarding the defense summation "M" (Defense Doc. No. 3093) - Misstatements of Fact or Incorrect Citations - Pages 3 through 23). Mostly focuses on which claims cannot be verified, cited, or substantiated. Topics include: "re-codification of domestic and military laws," labor in connection with military operations, rules of the War Prisoners' Punishment Act, penalties of the revised law pertaining to the punishment of POWs, refutation of defense contention, regulation regarding violation of oath, death sentence ofr breaking parole, allotment of food for POWs versus Japanese laborers, Japanese policy for treatment of POWs, massacre at Singapore, witness SUGITA, YAMASHITA order to "mop up Chinese merchants," witness SAWADA, letter of recommendation from a U.S. Army doctor, Burma and communications, TOJO culpability for treatment of POWs.