ABSTRACT
The discussion on military occupation so far has taken us into some rather unsavoury areas of policy and practice. But these pale into relative insignificance beside the calculated programme of terror and genocide instituted by the Germans during their campaigns in Poland and Russia during the Second World War. It has been noted elsewhere (Carlton 1990:174) that the practice of extermination normally falls into three main categories:
i) accidental, in that certain infectious diseases may be introduced which kill entire populations, as happened during the colonization of the Americas and Polynesia,
ii) incidental, as part of larger policy of repression, as with the Spanish in South America.
