These acts were contrary to International Conventions, particularly Articles 46 to 56 inclusive of the Hague Regulations, 1907, the laws and customs of war, the general principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of all civilized nations, the internal penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed and to Article 6 (b) of the Charter.
Particulars (by way of example and without prejudice to the production of evidence of other cases) are as follows:
1. Western Countries:
There was plundered from the Western Countries from 1940 to 1944, works of art, artistic objects, pictures, plastics, furniture, textiles, antique pieces and similar articles of enormous value to the number of 21,903.
In France statistics show the following:
| Removal of Raw Materials | ||
| Coal | 63,000,000 | tons |
| Electric energy | 20,976 | Mkwh |
| Petrol and fuel | 1,943,750 | tons |
| Iron ore | 74,848,000 | tons |
| Siderurgical products | 3,822,000 | tons |
| Bauxite | 1,211,800 | tons |
| Cement | 5,984,000 | tons |
| Lime | 1,888,000 | tons |
| Quarry products | 25,872,000 | tons |
and various other products to a total value of 79,961,423,000 francs.
Removal of Industrial Equipment
Total: 9,759,861,000 Francs, of which 2,626,479,000 Francs of Machine Tools.
Removal of Agricultural Produce