Clause 8 — Desertion

Part of Orders of the Day – in the House of Commons at 4:45 pm on 22 May 2006.

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Photo of Julian Lewis Julian Lewis Shadow Minister (Defence) 4:45, 22 May 2006

This is the second time that the Nuremberg law has come up, and the hon. Gentleman ought to bear in mind the difference between waging an illegal war and doing illegal acts in the course of fighting a war. I do not think that anyone at Nuremberg suggested that any individual German soldier, sailor or airman was guilty of waging an illegal war, although many of them may have been guilty of war crimes in the context of that war, irrespective of whether or not it was legal.