<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><rec-number>8434</rec-number><ref-type>Case Study </ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robert Ladenson</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Shooting of Hostages in Retaliation </style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MILITARY</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MILITARY ethics</style></keyword></keywords><taxonomies><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Military Ethics</style></taxonomy><taxonomy><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Military</style></taxonomy></taxonomies><pubtype><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case Study </style></pubtype><audience-level><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ug</style></audience-level><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">02/1998</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Hostages.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology</style></publisher><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In 1944 it became known to the Free French Partisan fighting forces that the Germans had executed 80 partisans and planned soon to execute more. The Partisans thus decided they would shoot 80 Germans prisoners who had recently surrendered to them. At this point the Red Cross intervened, won a postponement of the executions, and sought an agreement from the Germans to treat captured partisans as prisoners of war, who may not be shot. The Partisans waited 6 days and the Germans did not reply. The Partisans then shot 80 German prisoners. After these shootings the Nazis executed no more Partisans. Was the shooting of morally justifiable? the 80 German prisoners by the If so, why? If not, why not? </style></abstract><notes><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Case from the February 26, 1998 Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Copyright Robert Ladenson, Center for the Study of Ethics at the Illinois Institute of Technology, 1998.</style></notes></record></records></xml>