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der Befehlsnotstand

NounC2

forcible coercion to obey unlawful orders

der Befehlsnotstand is a German noun meaning “forcible coercion to obey unlawful orders (a legal situation in which someone can be absolved of responsibility for carrying out an illegal act, including a war crime, because they were threatened with great bodily injury or death if they refused)”.

Genitive
des Befehlsnotstandes
Plural
die Befehlsnotstände

In other languages

  • Русскийвынужденное исполнение противозаконного приказа
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