Type: Order

Authority: National Courts: Supreme Courts (Italy) - Corte di Cassazione

Date: 05/06/2008

Subject: The order concerns the right to compensation of Italian citizens enslaved in Germany, with regard to the matter of crimes against humanity. The principle of National «immunity», according to which single persons cannot ask the States for compensation, cannot indeed be applied in case of serious war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Original language: Italian

Classification: Dignity - Art. 1 Human dignity

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