Royal Decree Law no. 123 (published in Official Gazette no. 73 of 30/3/43) was issued on 30 March 1943, and laid down that “employees of the State Administrations and any citizen, who, not being in military service, are assigned, on the basis of mobilization papers, to commands, departments or services of the armed forces on land, sea and air mobilized by the respective general staffs, for war operations, assume the legal status of members of the military”. Militarization entailed subjection to military criminal law, i.e. to the rules of military discipline in force for the armed force to which the…
