The High Court also rejected EDO's claim that even though there may well have been war crimes carried out with its products, the company was protected from prosecution as a supplier to the military by the Royal Prerogative which disallows the domestic courts from making judgements of government foreign policy. In response to this the judge went so far as to compare the director of EDO to Bruno Tesch (Chemist) of the Zyclon B case [https://www.webcitation.org/692LyEIYq?url=http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/wcc/zyklonb.htm], who was executed for assisting the genocidal policies of the Nazi regime in Germany in the 1940s.