La justice militaire belge en 14-18 : Représentations culturelles et réalités quantitatives

Quite a lot of Belgian combatants from World War I showed how the military justice was repressive and utterly unequal. But some of them also pointed the failure of the military justice in crisis, unable to deal with the situation. The sentenced combatants escaped their condemnation to death, and were sent to the back of the front line, safe from bomb attacks. However the penal reality showed that the number of sentences was constantly relatively important throughout the conflict. On the other hand sentences to death and above all executions were unusual, and the great majority of the sentences... Mehr ...