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otherwise circumvent the restrictions placed on requisitions, contributions, seizures, and othermeasures dealing with property. 48811.23.6 Price Controls in Occupied Territory. The Occupying Power may regulate pricesin the occupied territory. For example, shortages of commodities and increased demand forcertain commodities in the occupied territory may result in a rise in price fluctuations requiringthe Occupying Power to resort to measures designed to maintain prices at a reasonable maximumlevel. 489 However, the Occupying Power may not use its power over price controls for thepurpose of exploiting the occupied territory to its own illegal advantage. 490488 1956 FM 27-10 (Change No. 1 1976) 430 (“Such measures must not, however, be utilized to enrich theoccupant or otherwise circumvent the restrictions place on requisitions, contributions, seizures, and other measuresdealing with property.”). For example, JUDGMENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE TRIAL OFTHE GERMAN MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS (Indictment Count 3(E)(6) (“By a variety of financial mechanisms, theydespoiled all of the occupied countries of essential commodities and accumulated wealth, debased the local currencysystems and disrupted the local economies. They financed extensive purchases in occupied countries throughclearing arrangements by which they exacted loans from the occupied countries. They imposed occupation levies,exacted financial contributions, and issued occupation currency, far in excess of occupation costs. They used theseexcess funds to finance the purchase of business properties and supplies in the occupied countries.”).489 VON GLAHN, THE OCCUPATION OF ENEMY TERRITORY 209 (“A majority of jurists writing on the law ofoccupation and most military manuals on the subject approve the right of an occupant to regulate prices in occupiedterritory. Shortages of every kind of commodity, ruined or damaged crops, lack of imported goods, increaseddemands through requisitions or purchases by occupation forces – all these contribute to a rise in the general pricelevel unless the occupant resorts to measures designed to maintain prices at a reasonable maximum.”).490 VON GLAHN, THE OCCUPATION OF ENEMY TERRITORY 209-10 (“Yet an unscrupulous occupant may easilymisuse his power over price controls to exploit the occupied territory to his own illegal advantage—as shownrepeatedly during the Second World War.”).821