Indemnification Claim Case

Abstract

State responsibility — Nature and kinds of State responsibility — For debts — Outstanding earnings in respect of work done for the German Reich by former prisoner of war — London Agreement on German External Debts 1953, Article 5(2) — Whether claim admissible — The law of the Federal Republic of GermanyState responsibility — Claims — In general — Claim for outstanding earnings in respect of work done as prisoner of war for German Reich — Hague Convention No. IV on Laws and Customs of War on Land 1907, Article 6 — Geneva Convention on Treatment of Prisoners of War 1929, Article 34 — Whether claim admissible — Whether claim deferred — London Agreement on German External Debts 1953 — The law of the Federal Republic of GermanyWar and neutrality — War in general — Effects of Treaties of Peace — In general — London Agreement on German External Debts 1953, Article 5(2) — Effect upon claim by individual against Federal Republic of Germany for outstanding earnings in respect of work done as a prisoner of war for the German Reich during the Second World War — Whether claim deferred — The law of the Federal Republic of GermanyState responsibility — Nature and kinds of State responsibility — For breaches of treaty obligations — Annex to Hague Convention No. IV on the Laws and Customs of War on Land 1907, Article 6 — Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War 1929, Article 34 — Claim by former prisoner of war for outstanding earnings in respect of work done for the German Reich — Whether claim admissible — London Agreement on German External Debts 1953, Article 5(2) — Whether claim deferred as one arising out of the Second World War — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany