In its judgement in the Roechling case in 1948, the General Tribunal at Rastadt of the Military Government for the French Zone of Occupation in Germany held that the accused, the proprietor of a German industrial trust and Reich Commissioner for the iron industry of the departments of Moselle and Meurthe-et-Moselle, was guilty of war crimes, inter alia for the exploitation and removal of important plant from metallurgical undertakings in occupied territories and for unlawful seizure of raw materials and commodities in those countries.