The article focuses on the 1945 execution of General Anton Doestler of Germany by firing squad after World War II for ordering 15 U.S. soldiers captured by German forces during a covert operation in 1944 to be shot without a trial. During his trial by a U.S. military commission, the prosecution asserted that Doestler's order was a violation of international law inexcusable by the "defense of superior orders." The article notes that Doestler's case is the only instance in which a German officer was tried for war crimes on the sole authority of the U.S. INSET: TRIALS AND TRIBUNALS.
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