Emil Muller

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Emil Muller was a German army captain who was tried and sentenced at the Leipzig War Trials in 1920.

Muller was born in Karlsruhe and worked as a barrister before joining the army. He was appointed head of the Flavy de Martel prisoner of war camp where approximately 1000 prisoners were held. Charges leveled against him after the end of the First World War included the failure to maintain a decent condition of the camp which led to many deaths as a result of dysentery, failure to prevent the commission of crimes and to punish the perpetrators thereof and, as well as physical violence directed towards prisoners.

The term "command responsibility" was first applied in the trial of Muller.

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• ICLR report on the Leipzig War Trials