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Statement.

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This is to certify that according to the investigations made by

the Polish judicial authorities the Polish Central Commission for

Investigation of German War Cr imes in Poland stated as follows:

The so called "Bloody sunday of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) " occur ed on

the 3rd of September, 1939, i. e. three days after German aggression

against Poland.

On that Sunday at 10.15 am polish troops, retreating from Bydgoszcz

(Bromberg) were attacked by German fifth-colunists. Polish troops

were forced to selfdefence and fighting developted in which 238

Polish soldiers and 225 German fifth - columnists were killed.

In connexion with ist after Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) was occupied by Ger­

man troops mass executions and deportations of innocent civil populat

tion/ of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) were performed by German author its

(Selbstschutz, SS, Gestapo). In that way 10.5000 Polish citizens were

murdered and 12.000 more died in German prisons and concentration

camps.

This is to certify that his statement is an official document of the

Polish Government to be submitted to the International Military Tri­

bunal under the provisions get forth in art. 21 of the Charter of

Member of the Central Commission for Inve

Nuernberg, the 19th of March 1946 I J x 1743 V“_•.'' /.2a } Stefan

hAugust 8 th 1945 > * ie -

stig tion of German War Crimes in Poland

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of.arlermann.rnnk.a former SS-Obergruppenfuehrer andCermanninister•Recorded at r gue district - court prison.

Marsh 7th, 1946

Tentificstion data elreay on recor. t prosent mcment in custoy oi T guo lot riot court. fter having been warned to give only truthful testimony and after the question vas put to him arl TLermann rank gave the fol­io ring testemony.uestlon: hat was the character of subordination of all poli-

ce forces in the protectorate to the Pei eh rotector TonI MURAT I, in p a rt i cular.

Ansver: Accoring to the order on "The Structure of the &e man Mm in i s tm 11on in the Protectorate and the Cermen Security olios’1 all '©man Authorities and institutions with the exception of the ermed forces of the Frotecborate as we1l as all the Police were formally subordinated to the

Heich protector and were under obligation to fulfil his orders. Oving to this the Security Police vas to carry out a prncple poltical policy set forth by the Reich Protector. Orders as to carrying out Stete-political mee- sures mere mainly issued by the Central office of State ecurity in Berlin through the Hand of the ecutity olice.

If the Reich Protector wanted to carry out sore state police measures he had to have the permission of the Central ffice of otate Security in Berlin, that is in this case the State Police also submitte er ch order for approval to the Central Office of State -ecurity in Berlin. The sane was true of directives armed at carrying out state-police mossures. These directives were eiven to the head of the ecurity Policy by the

upreme uehrer of the • and Police, his system of subord1- nation and issuing of directives remained in force during the whole existence of the Protectorete and was used as such by von eurath in the protectorate. In general the Reich protector could, in his ow initiative issue directives to the tate Police.

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through the hend of the ecurity olice. owever, if these measures were in any way connected with state or political matters the approval of the Central office of State -ecurity had to be obtained for carrying them out. In recards to the SD (Security ervice) which had executive poyors, the authority of the Reich protector respecting the issuing of directives to the SD was greater and in no case subject to the anprove of this Reich Central Office of Stete ecurity. mhe Reich protector von Neurath regularly receive reports on the most important events in the Protectorate which had some hearing to the ecurity dice from me. e ell es from the S+ate- secretary and from the head of the ecurity -011,e•, or example von leurath received informetion about 2 certain de- monstration in Suetenland in November 1939 both from me end from the heed of the security Police, his definite case dealt with Hitler’s direct orders demanding the shooting of ell the Tinem leaders insofar as this concerned the execution of students. The number of ring leaders was to be fixed by the 1 ra me Gestapo and the eich Protector vas to be informed of thise-n18 definite case the naming of the ring-leaders was left to the... State Police, that is, vres subject to the approval of the -eleht

otector. eich Protector von Neurath signed the official despatch informin' of the execution of these students, thereby approving of this action, herefore It is 1mpossible to say that in this case the f,elch rotector hears responsibility only in general for the execution of Hitler’s order calling for the shooting of all the rng-lenders, but he also hears special responsibility for putting their numbers at 9. I kept von eurath in touch with the results of the invest lotion end he signed the statement. If this hat not met with hisapprpye- and had be wished to revise it as for instance, making it less severe, ymich he had the right to do, then I should have had to adhere to his decision. The discovery of nine ring-lesders was accented as an accomplishe fact end this WAS not recon- sidered. It was taken for granted thatthis question had already been considered and the list was regarded as a list of persons

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subject to executon. Ir spite of the fact that in tills case there was no possibility of nerifying the facts set forward by the tete bl toe, the ech rotector bears equal respon- siblity along with the State-Secretary and the head of the ecurity olce.

Recored by /signed/

Certified by / signea/

{gneture of witness interrogated.

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TRANSLATION OF DOCUENT 1201-PSOFFICE OF U.S.CHIEF OF COUNSEL

Copy .

(in red pencil) 54 1/

R III Z St

nz. i k 32/510 wi Ru wat/Rii III Z St

Berlin, den 20.2.42

(in red pencil) Secret’.

Notation for the Files

Subject; Secturo of uinistorinl Director Dr. MANSFELD, Deputy General for the Mobilization of Labor ( arbitscinsatz) on general ques­tions regarding the mobilization of Labor Cozmmittncnt.

Time ;19 Febr 42, 10.00 hours

Place:Reich Chamber of Economy (Reichswirtschaftska mer)

Present:From i Ru nat KVR Dr.GOTIUS

The present difficulties in the .mobilization of Labor (arbcits_insatz) pould not have arisen, if one had dachat.in time on a generous mployent

°£ Russian prisoners of war, There werc 3.9 illion Russians----- ailablc of irhom ther e are only 1,1 uiliion left. 500.000 Russians died

between Nov.41 and Jan 4R alone. The number of-Russian prisoners of war cn- ployed at present (+00.000) can hardly be increased, whenever the typhus- cases decrease, there may be a possibility to bring 100,000 to 150.000 more Russians into the economy.Compared to that, the cploycnt of Russians Civilians is gaining ever greater importanco . Th,re are all together 600,000 to 650,000 Russians

available. 300.000 of whon "re skilled industrial workers, and 300.000 tc ibO.OuO for agriculture. Th- employment of these Russians is exclusively a question of transportation'. It is insane, to transport thene laborers in open or closed undented box cars, nercyly to unload corpses at the destination.

3 to 10.000 Ru: ssinns divilians who are Very excellent workers conc to Gor- many every They co.mand good practical knowledge, work vith precision and at a specd which can not always be kept up by geran laborers.

The nutrition - question presents special difficulties. The Russians are fed me clothed Well vt >n they arrive and have to be kept physically in a con-

dition vihich eie1 .s then 11 work. Therefore after a conference with the Soorctrry of to. to . 3. UK , he rations of the Russians .arc to be impro­ved.

-n0. S note: pencilled notation)

BDc Gothamatters concerning Russian prisoners of war.

CERTIFICATE OF TRANSLATION OF eOCUuNT NO. 1201 PS

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I, GOETZ AYER, T/5, 33812169, hereby certify that I n1 thoroughly conver­sant with the English and “erman languages; and that the above is a true and correct translation of Docuent 1201-.

GOETZ LAYER T/5.

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Governor of District Lubli

TRANSLATION OF DOC^UNT NO.2819-PS

» Lublin, 13 J illy 1944Government General Dr .Sc hr. /B ue .

Department: Economy

Tgb. No. 5280/44Az. 10-11-19.

To theChief of Office (Amtschef) in the house.

Subject: Movable property of Jcws.

Referring to my oral report of today based upon

the secret letter of the SS— and police leader that I

also received today, I present to you teletype (Fern-

schrciben) of the Government, Department custodian

administration (Trcuhandverwaltung) of 3 May 1944 for

your information, with the request to return it.

Chief of the Economy Department per:

signed: Dr.Schrodt.

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TRANSLATION 0? DOCUIIENT NO.2819-PS07RIOR 0? U.S. CHIS7 07 OOTNSRL___

Governor General CracowGovernment of the Government General, Central

Economics DepartmentDepartment custodian Administration (Abteilung Treu- _

handverwaltung) az. : 153 Pi/meTeletype No. 15/18 1) register

2) submit again at once S 4-/5

To the ... ,. I am to he notiliedGovernor of the district, about developmentsEconomics Department DM.5 ub D e p ar t me nt cucto dian Administration (ire uhandver wait ung)Warsaw - Radom - Lublin - Galicia.

Subject: Transfer of personal property of Jews to the government by the 33.

For your information I am. informing you that, on 21 Februar3 1944, an agreement was reached by statesecretary Dr.Buehler with the higher SS— and police leader, So Lieutenant General Koppe, in presence of several department presidents, that the SS will place at the disposal of the government the personal property of Jews stored in camps or becoming available in the future. In executing this agreement, I caused that goods stored in various SS camps be taken over within the shortest possible time. Stock already confiscated and safeguarded was also transferred to me by the Chief of the Security Police and the SD. I request you to contact the local SS- and police leader in order to clarify this subject. The higher SS- and police leader has charged 33 — lIajor Meier expert for special property, who is constantly in contact with my office, to carry through the transfer of this property.

By order:Pietschke, Regierungsratvgl. 21 Dec.1944 +++

transmitted: Finkbeiner/Schiwiora 3 lIay 10:15 ‘cl: received: Radom Kerner ++received: Lublin: Imach +

CERTITICATE 0? TRANSLAIION 07 DOdriERT NO. 2819-P3

20 March 1946I, Dr. H.v.V.VEITH AGO No. D 150649, hereby

certify that I am thoro ghly conversant with the English and German languages ; and that the above is a true and correct translation of Document No. 2819 PS.

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Fuehrer’s Commissioner

for control of ideological Berlin W 35and political training Margaretenstrasse 17and education NSDAP Telephone: 62

Luetzow 9541

February 6th, 1938

My Fuehrer, As I could not speak to you here, I asked to be granted

an audience on Tuesday. This matter concerns me to such an extent

that today I made the following statement to Party/member Goering:

You, my Fuehrer, entrusted me with maintaining the national­

socialist ideology and with the struggle against bolshewism.

Formulating this task has been the subject of discussion in which

Dr. Lammers took part. As I understood it, the fulfillment of this

task was to be closely connected with the reorganization and renaming

of the Foreign Policy Department of the NSDAP in the spirit outlined

and this, in turn, was to pane the way for the possible appointment

of Party-member von Ribbentrop.

Party-member von Ribbentrop was appointed Reichs Foreign

Minister by decree of February 4th. At the same time, however, my

appointment was not made public. During to this I find myself in

a position where the duties of acting Foreign Minister are now being

fulfilled by a National-socialist instead of by the one who has long

been at this post. In addition he has been included in the Geheimes

Reichs Cabinet without taking into consideration the head of the Foreign

Policy Department of the NSDAP. This department still exists de-facts,

insofar as my appointment has not yet been officially confirmed. On the

10th of February foreign diplomatic agents were as usual invited by me

to the Hotel ADLON to make their reports. I feel myself compromised

before the whole world and my honour is at stake. I find it difficult

to appear before foreign representatives. Refusing to receive them, how­

ever, would only aggravate matters more. Moreover, my position in

connection with ideological education also undermined as it

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remains, it would seem, unrecognized. It only remains for me

to presume that I have in some way comitted a "breach of

confidence, although you, my Fuehrer, but a few days ago so

warmly commended me on my loyalty and faithful. service for over

a long period of time.

Party -ember Goering claimed to understand and agree with

me after having heard my detailed explanations concerning the matter.

He promised to actively support the fulfillment of the task which

he found formulated in the accompanying enclosure.

I then stated that owing to the formation of the Geheimes

Reichs Cabinet a new situation had arisen. Organizing the struggle

against bolshewisms and correctly directing education is possible

only by having constant and exact information at any disposal. I

ask that together with my appointment I be included in the Geheimes

Council.

Party-member Goering agreed to this and stated that only

Reichs ministers were included in this Council and that he would

suggest that you, my Fuehrer, appoint me Reichsminister and include

me in the Geheimes Council, at the same time not creating any new,

ministry. Party-member Goering stated that Dr. Lammers would have

to be consultated regarding the legal and formal aspect of my

appointment.

I did not find Dr. Lammers at home as he had already left,

but in a short letter he let me know, that you, my Fuehrer, had not

as yet made any definite decision. It is possible that he had been

summoned to Berchtesgaden, but, at any rate, he requested that I get

in touch with him at the end of this week.

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Ar no attention had been paid to the state of affairs

mentioned above, and taking into consideration Party-members

Goering’s support of my statement I ask that you grant me an

audience as soon as possible. I humble beg your persmission

to mention the fact that the authority and honour is concerned

of one who has served you loyally for over 18 years and who finds

his further activities hindered by the abovementioned state of

affairs.

Heil, mein Fuehrer,

signed:

A. ROSENBERG

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T3LTIO. OF DOCU.STTlo. USSN/445 OFFICE OF SOVIT IIF OF COLISLL. ------------------------------------------------------- --------

(ip"Inter r o g a t ion F i n u t e s t

of priso ar of war Foerster, llormann P a u l, memoer of che former

German . ehrmcht.lth. February 1946.

Foorster, lormann Paul, born in Doebeln, Sacony, in 1913.

Cerman, Gern Nationality, University Educction, in 1936

corpleted his course at he Legal Faculty of Borlinl*

U ivursity, m uber of the 1SDAF since October 1933, th-

son of a manufacturer - his parents live at 42 Leipziger-

sorasse, Pennig. His ovm place of domicile 15, lartin-

utschnannstrasse, Chemnitz. In the ehrmacht since

September 1933. Last rank 30. First Lieutenant (SS-Ooe.-

sturmfuehrer) . Taken prisoner on 13.13.1942 in the atochLie1jek fo, ov Last of G oeric. Now in c-p

97 f Elabuga, *eshre‘ass( Lithuanian SSR ? ).

The prisoner of wrar Focrster,N.P, made the follouring statement on the

matter in question.

I was born on the 25th.January 1913 in Doubeln (Saxony) the son of the

manufacturer Fricdrich Paul Fo rster. y father wa.s until quit, recently

in Pennig, Saxony, whure he omned an enamel ware factory for t e socg

industry. Up to 40 workers were employed in the factory,

Iy brother Hel ut lived with ny father until he was c lied up and was

technic 1 mannger in the facory.

In ddition my uncle lived in Docbeln, where he had a book-shop. Busi os

the rulntives entioned, I also h Vo a fi ncco, Hannu Stark, who is now

living with my parents, Honna Sterk comes from a family of ru nuf acturers.

Her father, Stark, owns a factory which constructs mechines in Neckar, i agricultural

which about 700 workers ore employed. This f- ctwy manufacturers /engine-

plants and steam install tions.

I first attended the elementary school at Vunnig nd then was at the

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TSLfIOlOF 003.3 Tlo, USSR/445.OTIC... OF OVIST CHII? OF COUISLL. cont.

Secondary School in Doeoeln for nin. Years, matriculoting in 1932 (.bitur).

Fron 1932 onwards I studied Law at the Universities of Jena, Leipzig,Geneva,

London, Paris nnd Rome.

In 1936 aft-r finishing ny st dies I took ny first Statu Lxa: instion and

aftervards vO.S civuly eployed in I2y prof ssion. In accordance with the I

existing rugulntions with regard to a three ear’s practic 1 training, I was

for a time at the Court in Fennig, then with the Supreme Court in Chemnitz,

after hat with the Curin Chnber f Comurce in lilan and, oeforc being

called up into the chr in.cht,I was vrith i.torncy Dr. Haferlnnd.

On the 24th. Septurber 1939 I was called up into the German chr cht.

Before being called up I did my training with the 15th. Infantry inti-

Tank Replocement Company, Infantry Regirunt 102. The Copnny was stationed

in Chemnitz.

fter I was called up in 1939, I was then with the 14th. Conpnny, Infantry

Regiment 267 in Kenigsbruck.1

.t the end of 1939 our Regiment was transferred to t.i- -sturn Front, the

eSt ' .11, here I took prt in small skir ishs for which I' was rooted

to Gefreiter (Lance Corporal) in January 1940.

LT larch 1740 I was promoted to Untroffizier (Cpl.) and rafted to the1

Battle School, hich course I finished in .ugust 1940, with the rank of

Foldvrebel (Sgt.), four that I was drafted to the .nti-lanlc Company Duk

in the Sudetenland, rith whom I remained until September 1940.

From September 1940 until .ugust 1941 1 was a F1 .toon Leader ii. the

Infantry Tank Company 87 in Plcuen,

he. I went to Berlin in lugust 1941, I met ny friend 88. Second Lieutenant

(SS.Uni ursturnfuehrer) Dr. Focke (&) Ernst Guenter, who was working with the

Press Deportrent of the Foreign Office. He suggested to me that I should

occupy a position in the Foreign Office, to which I gladly agreed.

- Durin- the sone month, ucust 1941, I was c lied for by my Company Chief

of the 87. Company and inord by hi that I was being transferred to the

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TR.INSLTTIOTOFDOCU T no. USSR/445.OFFICE OF SOVIE. CIILF OF COUlISEL.cont.

Foreign Office. I was im edictely given papers, instructing me to report to

the Special Puryose Corunand, at 6 or 9 (I cannot renember the nuber exacty)

Hermann Cocringsirasse, Berlin.

lien I reported, the sane onth - ujust 1941 - to the address given in

Berlin, I learned that I was cing transferred to the SS. Sonderkor mmando

(Specinl Purpose Unit) of the Foreign Office.

At the head of the SS. Sonderkor unndo was an official of the Foreign Office,

Baron von Ruehnsberg.

The follox ring belonged to the S3. Sonderkonunndo:

S.Coptain (S3.Hauptsturnfuehrar) Syr, Sepp, Ruchnsburg’s assistant, SS.

Hauptsturufuehrer Dr. Pietsch, Ruchnsbrg’s assistant in mtters of

Organisation and idminist ration.

SS. Obersturmfuehrer Frenz.

The Son' erf uchrer ;

ss. Unterstur nfuchrer Dr.Focke, Ernst Cuenter, 33 .Unturs tur fuchrer i ulsen,

Sonderfuchrer D. erssun, SS .Untersturfuchrer Dr. ■ uer (Doctor) .

Dr .Sunhen.

S' .Untersturmfuchrer Dr. Schicver.

Leutnant Schoenborn, Hans.

SS. Uni erstur uchrer 3 >. h ■, Reinhold,

33 . H- uptstur: fuehrer Siebert .

SS .Hau; tstur fuchrer Hnubold .

33 .U i rsturmfuehrer Dr. o’. .lek.

altogether the unit was SO - 100 strong, 300 - 400 -n being added (later).

Later on, the neme of the Special Purpose Unit wras ch ngod to S-cicl

Purpose Battalion of the Foreign Office.

The battalion consisted of 4 comp, nies, the 1st. Co.' ny (Coupany Coluunder

SS .Sturnbannfuchrer Sr) was assigned to the Gurnnn ^audition ry Trc- in

Africa. The 2nd. Co.m ny (Company Co ■ i n ^r S3.H u tsturu-hrur Frenz) • .S

ns signed to r y Group Forth.

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TE1 LT I il- FD ’• 15 0.U/51/145.OFFIS: OF SOTI CilR OF COUISL. coni

T j 3rd.Conpany (Conpeny Comnder SS.Hau tsturnfuehrer Si.. -rt) WSS

assigned to r- Crovp Centre. T - th.C3. ny, to vich 1 3ulonued, was

assigned to ry Group South. The Co. pony Co.mnder of the 4th •Co . P -3 •

SS.H.vtsturnfuchrer D.K llet.

. n I joinud the Spucinl Purpose ’unit, Baron von Ru-lusberj introduced

ne to the officers and iun. He received 2 in a buil ing which " 8 art

of the Forimn Ofi - ad in vhich the Spucicl Purpose Unit ns urtured-

Baron von nu.hnsberg told ne that the 5 cicl Purpose unit hed fored

on the instructions of the Reich llinist.r for Forcin -C -rS, aron von

Ribbentrop. iccor ing to von Ribbentrop’s instructions, our Sp~cinl

Turpose Unit wes to advace in the occupied territory vith the conont

troops,in order to protect cultural objects (in muscus, libraries,

scientific institutions, picture . l1-rius etc.) from bcinc dennsd and

destroyed by Gerin soldiers, to requisitio. then and send thel ofi to

Germany. In this connection, Baro - von Ruclisberg st .ted th t all terinls

found in the occupied territory, vhich rere of cultural, political,

‘econozic or military value, were to be transported to Gerueny

In luust -nd Septetber 1941, von Ruuhnsberg Itopt sagins hov - often

visited Reich inister von Ribbentrop and, in the Spring of 1742, he

dwelt on the subject of his nuetings with Riobentro, especially when he

was talking to Junior Officers.

Caron von Ruuhnsberg often drove about in th- cr.oured c r of the Chiuf

"Recording Section" ("Frotolcoll" ) of the Foreign Office, von Doerno-rE

l saw von Dornburg about 5 tius vith thu Spucinl 1 u os- attalion.

Dournburg and von Ruehnsberg wer- ruot frien s -nd were on intimate

terns. I ascert ined, both from what jaron von Ruhnsberg said and from

my ovm observations, that the Special Purpose attlion vo.s directly

under the com nd of von Ribbentrop through von Docrnb-rG and, at the

sone tine, had contact with OKI. This connection vith OKI was 1 intcinud

by Rajor Ost-rhof,

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THNSLT10il OF DUCUL No.USSR/445.OFFIC. OF SOVIET C IIL OF COUIISLL. coat.

Question: Give a det: ilcd account of how the Specinl Purpose Unit c rried

out the tasks allotted to it.

nsvrer: On the evening of 5th.ugust 1941, vo. Ruchnsberg, in the 2 ~Sence

of Pietsch, Paulsen, Krallat, Ronerssen, Liebsen ond others, gav- us the

verbal order fron v. Ri bentrop to "clear" corpletely all scientific

institutions, libraries, palaces etc. in Russia od. to Ucke cmy en thins oh t

'.ad a definite vlue, I know froa the report by S3. Haupt stur fuehrer Haubold

in 1941, that, in cotppliance with von Ribbentrop’s instructions, the

Haubold copany renoved 11 the possessions of the Gat ralace lluseu of

the Epress Catherine in Zarakoje Saelo near Leningrad. The Chinese

Tapestries were taken down fron the walls a. Wer- the ilt ood carvings,

the nosaic floor was token ouray in pieces.

Intique furniture nd the extensive library, consisting of 6 - 7,000

books in French and ..ore tha 5,000 Russian books and nnnuscripts were

re ovud fron the Palace of Czar leander.

inong th.se books was a quantity of historical books and moirs (Frunch)

and a 1 eat nuber of works by ( celc and Ro.mn classic -1 writers, vhich

were bibliographical rarities.

I arrived in the bast for the first tine in uptcur 1741 uith a unit

of a out 50 men, led by Sepp von Syr.

It was ickun for r n ed that lToscowr trould be taken by the Curnen troops would

and that wre/hove to carry out von li bentr p’s instructions in . .oscow

itself.

Our route; viaTarsavr, Brest Sluzk, Botruisk, Kritschen nnd Roslave.

...ft er the defeat of the cernnn troops .fore oscovr, we returned to Berlin.

Iftervrards I 'was in the following tows: ,'arsaw, Tiev, Kharkov, Krccotscburs,

Dnjepropetrovsk, Saporoshje, llelitopol, Sinferopol, Sebastopol, Tegenros, Rostov/Don, Bataise, Tictorezkoja, Kr snader. It s assu .ed that, after

th Caucasus had been occupied, we vrould requisition the cultural objects

fron such towns ns Tbilissi, Baku nd others. But I was taken prisoner near

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ib. 3 u ion: ive 1 detniled nccount of th. activity of che Spucinl Purpose

Battalion of the Forcig Office in the Ukrainc.

anster: In 1941, the 4th.Compony, to which I was a tachied, requisitioned the

leborator3 of the Institute of . ediccl Sciunc. in Kicv. 11 the fittin s as

..ell 08 scientific equipment, pepcrs .nd books re tekun to Ger; .my. About

5,000 books were iskun oway in this operation. his ction vms directed by

the nedical specinlist. Dr. Bauer.

uch booty fell into our hands fron the library of the Ulranian .cadet of

Science, vhere U.Ce tionally rare ini scripts written in Persian, .byssini: n on

Chinese and annals of Russian and Ukranian histor, the first copies of

books printed by the irst Tussinn printer, Ivan Fedorov vrere stored; this

libr r: -iso contained r re vrorks by hevtschunko, izkcevitsch, Ivan Pranko

and oi hers.

alto ether, 150,000 — 200,000 books were seized. Sro. the library of the

iccdeny of Science.

Te c the r - oi St. VI imir in Kiev wras filler to ov_r? lowrin rith

requisitioned books.

Boron von Tuchnsberg and llietsch told n that i £ rious dispute arose between

the Foreign ffice and the 11 osenbers Staffu (3*co Aosun erg) over these

looks, as the "Rosunburs Staro" ntud to nppropint. t.se books. Later

on, we took miy thu sen" ron the c t.iedral of ,St. vndi ir and han ed

over ~ver:t ing t hnt .as in bhe place to the remxus.ntatives of the Hosenserg

Staff".

Dr. Faulsen directed the operation of requisitionin the library of the

Acndony of Science.

nt the end of 1941, extra el” rare co ius of very / tlunblu books as r.11 ns

collections of rare un rovins, including Rubens origincls, were taken fron

the Kiev - Lovra nonastery. .1] that vras taken cwoyr to Cer nny. In 1941 we,

thet is or corip ny, seized 3,000 volus fro., the library which had once

belonged to Bibikcon, .3 -11 as thousonds o' volus ron the St te library.

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In the sate year, 4,000 - 5,000 books in de luxe editions, including a

rare corpl te edition of Voltcire (59 volunes) bound in pale yullow leather,

were selected fror the Korolenko library in Kharkov and - with the

exce tion of the corlete edition - taken avray to Berlin.

any books were estroyed.

In September 1942, under the direction of Lisben, up to 30 boxes of books

vrere seized in Krasnodar from the agricultural library.

During the sa 1 period, many of the renining exhibits from the Kiev

nuseurs; the lluseum of Ukrainian irt, the lluseun of Russian -rt, the

lluseun of Western European Art and Oriental Art, the Ukrcinian Schevtschenlco

useur, were sent to Berlin.

Inong the exhibits were pictures, portraits and sketches by E~pin,

Verse’tscha in, Tedoton, Ce, sculptures by intolcolsky and other vrorks by

Russian .nd Ulrsmninn artists nd sculptors.

Severn] hundr d pictures, including 14 pictures by iv sovski, Rupin, many

pictures by Fo Ionov, Schischikin etc., were taken from the Kharkov picture

gallery,

I must frankly confess that the most valuable books, engravings etc. which

vrere stolen from the occupied territory were sent to Gering, Ribbentrop and

Rosenberg among other people.

For Example: 2 volumes of rare engravings, including also some that were

signed by Rubens, w re sent to Hermann Goering.

The 39 volumes of the xtrenely rare copl.te edition of Voltaire were

taken by Rosenberg.

Ribbentrop received 2 enormous volumes of very f.ne water colour drawings

by Rosen, in extremely rare edition, 60 - 80 volumes, of Napoleon’s

campaign in Egypt, written in French, was taken from the Library of the

Jperinl Palace and sent to Hitler.

The newspaper IFostreuterI ycar 1759, which was issued in Germany, was

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I do not know het harp-nud to the rennining books and pictures.»

-ueslioni- hnt do JoU know about the activity of the Special Purpose

Battalion ?

— urine the dvence of the Ceruon troops in the direction of Moscow,

the attalion leaders drevr up a plan for seizing the archives of the people’s

Cormissarict, the nuseus end library possossions tc.

It wa s suglostedto n0 that the archives and mpurs of the People’s Corznissor-

iat for Special — fairs and the People’s Coruzis sariat of Justice as well as

tuseuc1s, picture LL-rius and libraries, whose n ass i can no longer re

be seized.

• plan waS also drawn up for seizing the orchives, p pels and property of

various organisations and institutions, including ausewas nd libraries in the

tow of Tbilissi and other towns in the Caucasas. But, oving to the defeat

of the Cern troops 1 these plens could not C carried out.

I can give the following Infor:;; tion regarding th. earlier ctivity of the

S' ecial Purp se Battalion:

The nembers of ry oattniton: Focke, Paulsen, Bauer and others told ne in -,41,

that, in the Spring of 1941, our Special Unit, led by Baron von Ruuhnsburg,

took all the Greek gold reserves froL Greece to Ger. any by nircraft. The

transporting of the gold reserves was c rried out by 33. Untersturu.c ushrer Robel

i;; person.

How nuch gold was trenovedn, I do not lcnovr.

Question: fell ae, W hre were the goods and v lunbles stolen fro .. the

libraries, museus and Science Institutes kept in Berlin ?

Ansver: Sone of the valuables stolen fro the Soviet Union Were placed in the

s our-roons of the otor fir . "_dlert, ..’here there was a private exhibition

for invited guests.

This' -xhibition was visited by the Chief of Hitler’s private chancellery,

Beukler , Heluuth Hiuiler, Hin ler’s brother, Secrutery of State Koerner,

fbassador Schulenburg, Hillg-rs, a nenber of the former zbassy in Moscow,

Oser ruppenfuehrer Juettner, one of the ighur SS. Leaders, Hans Fritsche, the

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ministerial .dvisor to the -linistry of Fropnganda, Gutterer, the

Secretory of State to the inistry of Propoganda, Luther, the

Secretary of State to the Foreign Office. Booty films were also lde

there, the guests drank cognac and so.le of the guests received gifts

fro: the collection of stolen things, unong other people. Hitler,

Baukler and Docrnberg received ifts.

In July 1942, Baron von uclisberg nnde a list in vrhich there

wrere 12 miss, incluin those of Hitler, Hiler, Coering, Riobentrop,

Goebbels, General Ditrich, the others whose n mes l heve forgotten.

Valuable gifts vrere chosen and prepored for those persons fro the

stolen valuables.

I sovr these gifts erson.lly. I have no idea when and y wrhon these

gifts were : nced out.

UeStion: You mentioned just now the "Rosnberg Staff". Tell me what you

know about this Staff.

insvrer: The tern IRos nberg Staff" has a double meaning. First it . icans

the whole minis tr at iv. 1cc in-ry in the occupied territory in the Eadt,

which was under Rosenbur, 's co Land, secondly this berm describes mobileN

roups or "staffs", vac . consisting of 3 - men in brown uniform, who

e ered sor tovn or othr a fur days after it .. . o-en taken.

TheSe roups or staffs inspucted 11 cultural institutions such as

muscus, picture llerius. Science Institutes etc.an' Seized -Veryti ing

that vas of v lue.

There were unending .’.is utes between the SS. Special Purpose Units of

Ribbentrop’s Foreign Office and Rosenber g1 s Special Stafs or Groups, abou

the functions an t .s’. of ec.c . of th se units.

The Special Purpose Unit of Zibentro_ 's Foreign Office irched ith the

forvrard units a. ' arrived in the Lowns, when they were teken, earlier

than the others so th t they robbed the libraries, luseu.s nid so on,

sooner, Rosenbur ‘s -nits rrived in ih se towns only after the looting

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Furthernore Rosenberg’s staffs cnd er ups also penetrated into towns writh

the troops who vrere to take then. In this way, our work ran on parallel

line s.

Question: Describe your practical work vrith the Special Purpose Unit or

Special Purpose Battalion.

Answer: Fron 1941 to 1942, I was attached to the Special Purpose Unit or Special Purpose Battalion and vas responsible for the military training of

the : ersonnel in it. Later, as assistant to the Company Co.mner, I was

responsible for the execution of tasks allotted to our unit by the Foreign

Office, and took p rt in preparing the plans for seizing purs fronmuseuns,

libraries and other cultural treasures on Soviet Soil.

Read, approved and signed by my own hand:

signed. signture,

Int-rroga or: Deputy peopl»s Commissar for Dol.stic affairs of the Tartaric ASSR

(Lithuanian SSR2 ),

signed. signcture.

Colonel Tschenborisov.

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CERTIFICIIL OF Tid'd 3L.11011 OFDOG U. 21IT Ho. UoSR/445.

.‘larch 25th. 1946.

I, Betty D.Richordson, Petty Officer .T.N.S, 66370, huresy certify that I

on thoroughly conversant with the Ger an and Inglish Languages and that the

above is a true and correct tr nslntion of Docunt 10.USS1/445.

Betty D.Ticherdson.Petty Officer ..I. n.N.S. 66370.

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7• Seheinhaltung von Verlegungen gegeniiber Kgf. (A.Q.)Fs ist viederholt festgestellt worden, dass Kgf. besonders dann, wenn sie von einer beabsichtigten Verlegung Kenntnis erhalten, Fluchtversuche unternehmene 'Es wird daher jede Unterrichtung der Kgf. Uber geplante Verlegung untersagt. Diese Anordnung ist insbesondere auch von samtliehen Diens tetellen des Stalag III B zu beachten.

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An alle Juden.

-ec8 evoelcerung von mnenschenennen Gegenden der Ukraine haben sah alle

Juden, die in der Stadt AsIcyrods:. wohrhaft sind, und die Juden, die lccanen

st endigen ohnsitz haben, an attroch, den s. September 152 un 5 Uhr

berliner Zeit (un 6 Uhr -loskzuer Zeit) zum Cueteroahnhof der Stadt x1slo-

"oisk zu erscheinen. Der Transport fachrt w 6 Uhr ( 7 Uhr osl-uer zent)

ab.

Jeder Jude hat Geyaeck .alt emeu Gemcht nicht ueber 2c kg, einschliess-

lich Lcbensnattel fuer 2 Tege ntaunshnen.

Di wettere Veraflecuns iri auf den Sahshoet en von en leutschen Sehoorien

sichergestellt.

8 - -r aneeorinet, dass nur das noeti ste mnitzunehmen 1st und zvar Tert-

sachen. Geld, Klcidung, Decken.

' ed E i-ie 3o1 ihre olnurgen versiegeln und an den Schluessel einen

ttu befeatigen ait der -1 be v n Fomnilienns aen, Vornauen, Beruf und der

adresse der nta rechender Famllennit glu der, • e ■ Schluessel ait dem zettel

ist auf dem Cueterbahhof an deutsche Behoerden sozugeben.

-neesichts der Tronsvortschmnerl eiten cenn das Cepaeck ueber 20 kg, some

-oobel nicht mitgenomnien eren.. Lrecia besserr Vorbe-ontung und Absendung

sr zur q bliebenen Sachen, soli jede Fanlie alle Sachen, -esche usv.

in acken und v ■ . r. der . enauen rv.- ’ s es . ent-

bortun . me u. . hrung des -epaecks Ubcr: .. .. . . naduntur NI-. if

er 98 auf das ernoegen der Juden absieht, oder veraucht, m eine juedische

-hnung cinzubrucl ..n, wrd sofort rschossen.

De Uistedelune unterllegen a ich dlejenigen Juden, die get auf t worden sind

De' -nstedelung nter1 nicht ule Fanilien, wo einer der ultern ein Jude.,

und der andore ein Busse, Ukriner der angeho rige einer onderen ration ist.

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Der Uinsiedelung unterliegen auch nicht Juorger semischter Abstammung.

jine freivillige Unsiedlung der . j ischten Familien, der , ischlinge der

1 . vn 2. Kategorie, kann in der ukunft, venn mnoeslich durchgefuchrt

werden.

Alic Juden haben auf dem Bahnhof in Gruppen von 45 - 50 hlann anzutreten,

und zvrar so, dass einzelne Familien zusanmenhalten. Da.s Anurcten der -lensche.

soil uun 5.15 Uhr Berliner Zeit (un 6.15 Uhr -o: ca.uer Zeit) beenuet sein.

Dss Juenkonmnitee ist fuer die plsnaaessige Durchfuehrung dleser Anord-

nun, verantvortlich. Die Juden, die versuchen, sich der Durchfuehrung

dleser Anordnung zu idersetzen, werden auf das Haerteste bestre.it.

Kislowodsk, den 7. September 1.42

Die Konnandantur lr. 12

JUGOSLOVENSKI DOKUMENATJl^

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AFFIDAVIT

WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN ) THE EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS)

LONDON, ENGLAND.

WILLIAM LEE ABBOTT, being duly sworn deposes and says:

I am a Private First Class in the United States Army, Army Serial Number 11132787, assigned to the Photographic Evidence Section, Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel, APO 124-A, and have been on active duty with the American Army since 7 July 1943.

I have been in the Photographic Section of the Office of the U.S. Chief of Counsel since 13 November 1945 and am familiar with all motion picture technique with respect to the reproduction of these photographs.

I hereby certify that the photographs in this motion picture are true reproductions of the original photographs and have in no way been retouched or altered.

The authenticity of these photographs is based on records now in the possession of the Jugoslav Delegation of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

WILLIAM LEE ABBOTT Pfc, ASN 11132787, U.S. Army.

Sworn to before me this 12th day of February 1946.

Captain, JAGD,O-2052031, Asst.Staff Judge Advocate, Hq, London Area Office, TS.ET, APO 413, US Army.

NTERNATIOMALNlt!hi:,BUlIRINURM6El ,i-. Y

USSR Exhibi .. .Filed EJ26,/996

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JUGOSLOVENSKI DOKUMENATJ/-105

Federativna Narodna Republika Jugoslavija

DRZAVNA KOMISIJAZA UTVKDJIWJJS ZLOCINA OKUPATORA I

NJIHOVIH POMAGACA

Ka D.Br. 2697/45Beograd, 23 januara 1946

U V E R £ N J E

Driavna komisija za utvrdjivanje zloina okupatora l njihovih

pomagaca ovim potvrdjuje da su svi snimci (fotografije) iz kojih je waj

film sastavljen originalni nemacki snimci (fotografije) koji su veim

delom zaplenjeni u toku vojnih operacija od strane Jugoslovenske Armije

ili su nadjeni u napustenim nemackim arhivama od strane jugoslovenskih

vlasti.

Sve ove snimke (fotografije) Driavna komisija za utvrdjivanje

zlocina okupatora i njihovih pomagaca identifikovala Je na osnovu dokume-

nata i iskaza svedoka, i utvrdila Je njihovu autenticnost. Snimcima (foto-

grafijama) nista nije oduzeto ni dodato.

Original! ovih snimaka (fotografija) nalaze se u arhivi Dravne

Komi si J e za utvrdjivanje alocina okupatora i njihovih pomagaca.

A. : *x03 - Sk /3 •, "F9- PBn " v '5: —:3 He = E. / ja \a‘A,, •-s

PretsednikDrzavne Komisije,

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THE JUGOSLAV STATE CCMMISSION has in its Archives thousands of such

photographs which in their sadistic frenzy were taken by the

Hitlerite criminals themselves and which were seized by the Jugoslav

Army on the criminals themselves. These photographs testify to

the terrible criminal and sadistic frenzy which the Government of

Belch and the OKw knew how to instill into the kezz*x broad

masses of the German soldiers and various Fifth Column formations

through their propaganda, their Nazi Party, SS and ahher

criminal organisations. The defendants at this trial are guilty

for this Fascist psychosis of sadism, which under their

leadership was spread into the German and the Fifth Column armed

troops who were engaged in the occupation of Jugoslavia and in the

fighting against the forces of resistance and National

Liberation.

THIS IS TO CERTIFY that the above is the true English version of the original Serbo- Croat text of the commentary to the Jugoslav Documentary Film, submitted to the International Military Tribunal,Nuernberg as " PHOTOGRABES OF HITLERITE CRIMES IN JUGOSLAVIA".

President of the STATE COMMISSION,Belgrade,15 February 1946

University Professor.niversity ---eN8ne )

* Mhade"meI,MILIVOJ SUDJIC, hereby certify that I am fully conversant with both the Serbo -Uroet and English languages and that the above is the true translation of its SerboCroat original.

MILIVOJ SUDJIC—L_e

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The mutilatea body of a Sloveb fighter of the national Liberation Arav who was tortured in a beastly manner hy the German soldiers

06.-

With an annal - like expression on their faces and laughing, the German soldiers cut off with their axes the heads of two captured fighters of the national Liberation Army in Slovenia.They photograph the moment the dim of their criminal pleasure,-the fall of the axe.

87,-

With the sane frenzied satisfaction on their faces they photographed the fall of the axe the neck of the second fighter of the national Liberation Army.

88.-

Then the mutilated heads of these fighters with cigarettes in their mouths,were photographed on a table..........

89.-

......... and finally thrown into the grass.

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Phe Nazi Party, the Heich Goverment and the OKW succeded in creatine among their troops occupying Jngoslavia a seal phychouis of pleasure - finding in atrocities and terror. The following photograph®,taken ay l the hangmen themselves,are the clear evidence of it,

N

78.-

A horribly tortured woman fighter of the National Liberation Army," her breast cut of by knife.

79.

The Germans in Bosnia laughed heartly at a hanged victim

80.-

A Volksdeutsche is enjoying himself, eurroundded by heaps of killed men and women in Bosmnska Kubica, 19 41

81,-

After havi ng hanged a women in Bosnia,a German takes pleasure of having hi ms if pgotographed side by side with his victim.

82.-

in Metkovtc( Dalmatia) the Germans are plaving with the body of a hanged victim.

83.

In Pancevo. April 1941, a German soldier is making sport of the victim

84,-

The Germans killed, this Bosnian peassant trampling him down under thekr feet.

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And this is what the Germans termed as * The Blooming Trees of Serbia, Spirng 1941

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74.-

Then, the sxt phtograph shom the hanging of Mbkolic’s body on the

towm’s square.

75.-

... And finally,the papulation past the

soldiers of the Wehrmacht are shown driving the E body of Nikolic.

Just as this series of photographs was widely distributed in the Krusevac District,so the following was distributed throughout Vojvodin

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76<-

In Vojvodina the Germans beheaded a child and photographed the body with the head set aside.

77--In Slovenia the Germans captured Joza Mirtic, a Mjor of the National Liberation Army,and tortured him in an abominable way.On the end they cut into his face a five-pronged star and shot him.

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Tor the purpose of intimitation,the Hitlerites need to give in Serbia special publicity to their at trod ties, they photographed their crimes and distributed the pictures among the population.frequent were the cases where the widely distributed.

After the serial photographs of the * Death March " of Babac,og the executions and of the bloodhounds devouring their victims,here is another ezample of * serial M photographing,showing the execution of Veselin Hikolic,a partisan fighter from Serbia and the public hanging of Sha hle dead body.ke was shot and his body subsequently hanged on the main sqare of Krusevac.A large number of photographs showing all the phases of the execution and hanging of his body were distributed in the town itself and its neighbourhood.

69,-

Nikolic is being taken to the execution.

70,-.-N .

Near the execution grounds.

71.-

The execution squad fires from a distance,so that the agony should last longer an the first bullets may not be aortal...

72, 73

Two more photographs from the front and the back of the fallen victim.

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This ghasty terror the Nazi • fascist forces of occupation spread all over Jugoslavia, from the hamlets of Bosnia to the main square of Belgrade itself, where at the * Terazije " they on one occasion hanged five men on electric poles.

The Jugoslav State Commision has collected hundres of such photographs showing the martyred victims of these crimes and taken as a souvenirs * by the soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht,

67.-

Here is one such * souverhirs *

68,-

On the main squares of all the towns and townships of Jugoslavia bodies of their citizens werer hanged,Here is an exemple of mass hangings in Pancevo,in March 1942 „Ehe whole country was under an unimaginable rule of terror.

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62.

While the still remaining victims of the Sabac Camp awaited the end of their agony.the Hitlerite beats carried out th the fullest the programs of their Fascist terror, sadistically photographing every detail,-

63.-

Two hangmen of the Sabac Camp let themselves be photographed with their two bloodhounds before another gasthly phase of the SS terror in the Camp begun.

64,-

«•••• and finally the bloodhounds are photographed massacring their hel- pless victim.

Bloodhounds on the living.hngry hogs on the dead.....

65.-

And while thus at Sabac,in Serbia,the Germans exterminated tens of thousand of people,setting even bloodhounds on their victims,in Bosnia, on the other hand, the Hitlerite beast set purposedly starved hogd to devour the victims of their crimes,The Germans photographed again various phases showing the hungry hogs devouring the victims.

We shall see at the screen two photographs taken by SS men,showing two phases of this horror - the hogs are shown devouring bodies of two sen, a women and a child, The first scene shows a hog devour the body of the child.

66,-

The child's body 1m almost gone

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The attrocities committed by the German soldiers in Jugoslavia go beyond human comprhension.

56.-

On 28 August 1942,1n the Tillage of Krnjevo,the Germane burnel alive xiroslav Krnjic,his wife and two children.

57. 58.-

a Tod.es l " --- the Germans called the shooting of victims who were forced to run.The photographs were taken in Sabac,in 1941,when several thousand innocent people were rounded up and forced to run for 30 kilometres,On this " March of Death the Eermnans killed several thousand of men and women.

59.-

The path followed by the " Death Bunners " was streven with the bodbes of innocent,-

60.-

Those who survived the " Death March " of Sabae, were next morning taken in groups for execution.-

61,-

So thuth the agony of th^ae waiting for their turn should last longer.the victims were hot two by two.

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Murders of captured fighters of the National Liberation A r m y --

50.-

Captured fighters of the National Liberation Army were almos egularly shot by the Germans.The shooting of the captured fighters in Smederevska Palanka, in Serbia.

51.-

Hanging of a captured partisan girl fighter in Bosnia, her name is Darinka Zivkovic - Stanic,she was a school teacher by proffssion.

52,53,54.-

The execution of captured fighters of the Natinnal Liberation Army in Jagodina,September 1941.

55,-

In 1941,the Germans publicy hanged the comanding officer of a Company of the Valjevo Partisan Detachment, S' tevan Filipovic by name.This Tito1* officer,the nose around his neck confuses in his last moment* his hangmen,by addressing the forcibly assembled population and telligg them og the certainty of the victory of the Just people’s cause and a calling upon the people to join the struggle.

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Destruction and Devas tatione-

47,-

In their innanerable punitive expediti ons, apart of mass executions of the innocent civilianpopulation, the Germans destroyd and burned everything they found on their way.The photograph shows the burning of a village in Bosnia,Just as in other provinces of •ugoslavia, the Germans devastated whole asoas in Bosn.

48,-

At the time of their retreat in October 1944,without any military neccesity whatsoever,the Germans destroyed and burned down in Belgrade a large number of dwelling houses,as well as cultural institutions. The photograph shows the burhed out University Buildings,where irreple- ceable collections and labotatories were destroy**.

Shooting of Hostages,-

49,-

Throughout Jugoslavia the Germans carried out shooting of hostages.Hostages shot in Slovenia.

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At the Sajniste Camp,the Germans murdered over 40.000 peoplea

43.-

After the liberation, the last remainingmass graves ©f Banjicu victims were opene end their bodies reinterred by their families.

After the liberation, the bodies of the victima killed at the Sabac Cazp were exhuaed.Bodeis of 25 thousand men, women and children were find found in graves around Sabae,

inhabitants of Jugoslavia were also slaugthered in the Ustashi Camp of Jasenovac,at the osder of the representative of the OKK,such as the SS - Brigadefuehrer Major General Kamerhofer,Over 600,000 men, women and children were killed in this Camp during the four years of its existence,Especially built scaffold was erected,where the victims were killed by a hammer stroke in the back of their heads and their bodies then trown into the Sava Hiver.

The * Labour N Camp at Lepoglava.This Campojust as those at Stara Gradlska,Loborgrad and others, devoured many thousands of innocent victims.It was only another Dheat Camp,

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kabour,or into concentration camps.

The Germans are shown driving before them their victim 8 there many women and cildren.

among whom

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drove also other countties

The men,women and children whom they seised,the Germans into cX» of death in Germany itself ,NorvayePoland. and. gt, from where thousands upon thousands of Jugoslav* u d However,such camps existed also in Jugoslavia itself.

campe in Amnidiate vicinity of Belradetajmiste addE5LZUT «» ermans kiiled tens of thousands of people-

41.-used to shoot the internees

Lnothesgilnsacofodmpiat’ajanet" thousand naman bodtes voreerengtedeThn z «».« everytrace of this Geranedurhethe last phase of the Tar, opened the graves aha burned the bod es•

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30.~

Like a mowm - down fiela lie the masses of innocent victim The last shot will finish off these who still shew signs of life.

31.-

town of 20 victims ,

Victims are brried in a common grave at Sabae.in this snail thousand, people,the German killed shout 25 thousend of their collected both from the town itself and ffom its neighbourhood.

32•-

in October 1941,1n the course of three days, the Germans shot about8,000 peole in Kraguje vac. Shot were also all the pupile of the Ben1ora classes as well as their teachers,who were collected from the secondary ecneolo,

33"

Goman executions in Jagedina.

34.-

The Germans are hanging citizens of Jagodina.

35,"

The Germane have shot the inhabitants of a Bosnian village and then photographed their victims - as a souvenir.

36."

In Match 1943, the Germans killed the entire population----- men,women,clidren and old ---- in a village near Gorazde in Bosnia.

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German solaters and Velksdeutsche are taking a happy photograph of. thmenselves aide by aide with their victims in Perlez/Banatt oin 1941.

26.-

The VeIkadent ache, militarily organisea by the Goverment of the Reich ana the oKw, photographed their victims from Vojvodina•

27•-

Germans shooting the peasants rounded up in the neighbourhood of Sabae, in 1941.

28,-

Masa shootings at Bara near Sabae,in 1941.

29.-

All are dead,only here and there a few still remain alive.

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Of THB INNOCINT CIVILIAN POPULATION .

The pla" og the Geran forces of occupation was te exterminate the population of Jugoslavia,For this reasin wherever they movedethey K1-d individual citizens as well as the population en maese• takins great delight in their crimes.

23.-

In 1941, in the town ef Pancevo,the German carried. ent mass shootings and hangings, The German are ha spy with their work.

24.-

German crimes in Vojvodinagin 1941.

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The Germans went sight - seeng.

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Victims of the terrorist bombing attack on Belgrade.

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TH BOMBING OF BELGRADS

a dastardly mannerThe German aggression against ugoslavia began in without a declaration of war and with a terrorist open city og Belgrade,en April 6, 1941.In this attack a large number of human dwellings,as well as of public buildings and cultural nonu- meats were destroyea,while over 20.000 Belgrade citiaens lost their

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destroyed and burned dwellings.

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A destroyed hospital.

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The German Army newspapr.the " Armee Zeitung “opublished photographs describing the collobaration between Draza Ml ha ll eric Tchetniks

and. themselves.

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The Tchetniks of Draza Mihallovic,Pavelic‘s * Domobrans ”, and the Germans photograph themselves together I the Tifth Columnlot and. the soldiers of their masters.

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The Tchetniks ef Drags Mihsilovic, the •• - called " Royal Army in the Jatherland ", served also loyally to the Germane in the struggle against our people.

An officer of Draza Mihallovic, the Commandant of the Tchetnik* Royal Ouards “a Nikola Kalabix,signed the Agreement pledging the chet- niks to .the German service.On behalf of the Gernans,the Chief of the Ge- etapo for Serbis,Seidl,was present at the signing of this agreement.

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On behalf of the forces of occupation.the Tchetniks of Draza Mihallovic went on slaughtering and killing innocent people,duly reporting their activities to their German masters.

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A traitor, the German hireling Nedic,orgenised the se called " Serbian State Guars ”, which in fact was a part of the German Army and thogether with it commited crimes against the peoples of Jugoslavia.

Hedic’s and German officers were good friends.

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Ljotic®s organisation " Zbor M was assisted and financed by the Hitlerite Germany even before the war. During the occupation,members of this Fifth Column organisation placed themselves completely at the service of the Germans.Ljotic®s men hang two patriots at Obrenovac,

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11.-ystashis standing over heaps of their slaughtered victi s.

12.-laughing Ustashis driving carts packed with human bodies.

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Memnbers of the German minority give Fascist salute when welcoming the arrival of German troops.

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On 14 April 1941.the Head of the Qerman minority in the Donja Stajerska Fro Vince ,1 ranz Steindl, greets the Reich Governent Representative Uiberreiter.

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M Volksdeutsche * photograph themselves side by side with their victims.

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TH MAIIFOLD FIFIH COLUMN.-

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Apart of the Fifth Uolumn of ?rince Paul’s and Stojadinovic •gGreen Shirts " • the German Gorerment before the war assistea and

ors aired another manifold Fifth Column,which at the time of the agression became a faithful instrument of the criminal Fascist plan for he the Jugoslav peoples.

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Menmber of the German minority in the former Jugoslavia,under the gutse 01 cultural and sport " organisations ver e organised carefully before the war into the Fifth Coluan and prepared for carrying out terrible crimes against the peoples of Jugbslavia,

Nomen members of the German Youth Organbsation in Martbor, during a sport " demonstration before the war.

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Members of the German Minority in Maribor took over the administration of this city and carried out police duty until the German armed forces entered.

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The leaders of the Kazi Germany, maintained very close reletions rule re of the old Jugoslavia and endeavoured with their help to Jugoslavia to fell into their net.

with the induce

Prince Paul visit* hitler.

5.-

Tbeirezult of hitlerite conspiracy against peace ana of the treache tite Pact of Nerch 25, 1941, vhich was to “reduce C.um t °f.theTrirer- On Gerna colony and °S* Sattelite in the Vernan adventr. of contutst fLJ! freedomloving peoples of Jugoslavia denounce ana Pejec-

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T o th«

Report

from: the Jugoslav State Commision for the Determination of the Crimes comit- ted by the Occupants and their Accomplices,

to: the International Military Tribunal in Nuernberg .

-Q.f Hitlerite crUe* la JugoBlavie-

The Jugoelav State Comnision for the Determination of the crimes committed by the Occupants and their accomplices Hasscollected more than lo.ooo photographs of the war crimes,which were seized by the Jugoslav Army in most cases on the captured enemy soldiers themselves.The greater part of these photographs has already been identified.On man of these photographs eveh the photographed persons were identified.lt was established that in the general atmosphere of the fascist terror a sadistic psychosis of the pleasure - finding in torturing and killing of victims vascreated as well as in the photographing of the tortures and hangmen together with their Victimsezhese photographs the Hitleritis carried on themselves so as to be able to boast with them and poison others with their own desires for such beastly peasure - finding - and they also multiplied them and widelx distributed them in the occupied regions with the aim of spreading terror and panique.

The Jugoslav State Gommision herewith submits to the International Military Tribunal in Nuernberg as the Appendix I. to its already submitted report a handful of these photographs which in a most clear manner testify of the terrible abyss of Nazi - crime,into which the leadership of the NSDAP, the Goverment o§ the Reich and the OKW have thrown the German Army and th German occupation Authorities in Jugoslavia.Before the photographs of the Mazi crimes in Jugoslavia,we shall submit a few characteristic and documentary photographs of the manifold Fiftch Column,which the Nazis very skillfully provoked,accepted and developped, to help them on the enslavement and hhe detruction of the peoples ofJugoslavia.Allthese photographs have been registered,verified and identified by the Jugoslav State Commision.The photographs follow the same order of the particular chapters of the Jugoslav indictment against the defendant Goering and others and they as original evidence illustrate every chapter of the Jugoslav indictment.

Me begin with the chapter dealing with the conspiracy against peace and the manifold Fifth Column,which ths Nasi creat in Jugoslavia.

Before their aggression, the German formed in Jugoslavia a conspiracy akitst.peace b organising a fifth Column with Prince Paul Karadjordjevic

b After many secret meetings between Hitler and Prince Paul, the rulers of.the.oidiugoslavia and the leaders of the Fascist Germany began to meet

publicly.Milan Stojadinovic,the former Prime Minister and Aleksandar Gincar- Marcovic,the at the time Minister of Foreign Affairs,in company with Goering and other high German funtionaries.

. Hitler and Goering on the occassion of Stojadinovics visit to Bexlin.prepared the ground for the enslavement of Jugoslavia and for the aggressive

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1. Personalvernderunsen_beim Stalag.(IIa)_ •Gem W.Kdo. VIII IVa 25 14- III 5 - 24.6.1943 1stOberzahlmeister d.R, Max Korber von H.St.0.V. Mhr:-Weikirchen zum Stalag VIII B versetzt.

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handelt es sich um brit., franz _ _ •.1 _1~______n_ - , -

2 • Hauptfeldwebeldiensttuer6./298IIa) • • /Dem Unterof fizier Gebauer, 6./398, werden mit sofortiger Wirkung. die Hauptf eldwebelgeschaf te der 6./398 bertragen.

3. Zur Ingovdmun FAt.) ;Es vesteht Veranlassung, darauf hinguweisen, da imKf.-Mnn- schaf tss bammlager von 22 Uhr ab grdfltmdgliche Ruhe zu herrschen hat. Die Kf. drfen sich in der Zeit von 22 Uhr bis 23-Uhr noch innerhalb der Blocks frei bewegen, wobei sie sich der grsten • Ruhe zu befleiigen haben. Von 23 Uhr ab ist jede Bewegung der Kgf. auBerhalb der Baracken vrboten. Die Kgf. haben spatestens

* um 23 Uhr auf ihren Bettstellen zu sein. Von 23 Uhr ab hat vllige Ruhe in den Baracken zu herrschen.Auf Kgf ,, die nach 23 Uhr auBerhalb der Baracken betroffen

werden, wird ohne Anruf geschossen.Pen Kgf: ist dieser Befehl durch Aushang in den Baracken und

Verkiindigung beim Appell bekanntzugeben. Dafr ist der Lager- fUhrer verantwortlich.

Batl. 749 sorgt fur entsprechende Belehrung der Wachposten.4. Verbal ten bei chies sungen oder ernstlichen Verletzungenvon

Kri egsgefangenen (G?OT)~ “ ‘ -Jede rschiessung oder ernstliche Verletzung eines Kgf. ist als besonderes Vorkommnis zu melden; handelt es sich um brit,, franz. belgische oder emerikanische K_., so ist auerdem nach 0x.w.A* f 24. 77 s /63h Kgf.Allg. (V/R) Nr. 14 243/43 - siehe Stalagbefe- Nr. 23 vom 26.3.1943, Z. 5 - verfahren.

Ohne Rcksicht auf die Staatszugehrigkeit eines Kgf. ist die Leichenschau bzw. Leichenffnung gcm § 39 K.St.V.o. - analog zu Ziffer 5 des Stalagbef ehl s Nr, 2 vom 8.1.1943 - durchzuf uhren und das zusthndige Gericht der Division um Leichenf reigabe and den Beerdigungsschein unverziglich zu ersuchen: besonders ver

\ wiesen wird auf § 39 Abs. 2 K.St.V.V.• AbstellungvonKriegsgefangenen in das Stalag. (G.o,)

Es besteht Vezanlassung, wiederholt darauf hinzuweisen, da es unstatthaft ist, Kgf. dem Stalag zu berstellen, wenn die Dis. Ziplinarstrafsewalt der hheren Arbeitskoramandofiihrer (H.Dv, 38)III Abs. 4 a 1) (Komp,-Fhrer gemafi § 14, Bataillonskommandeur 4- sem § 15 WDSTO, HDv 3/9) ausrcichtaBei Strenger Bcfolgung dieses Verbotes wird verhindert, dass

die Kgf, fiir lngere Zeit den Arbeitsoinsatze entzoggen, die Wac, einheiton mit der notwendig' 1 Transportbegleitung belastet und -ransportmittel uber Gebhr in Ansprtch genommen werden.

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Verschiedene Griinde, vor allem Riicksicht auf Papierersparni r ? veranlassen das Stala6, die Bestrafungen von K5f. in Zukunft “ nicht mehr im Stalaghofehl bekanntzugeben. Die "intragung der Bestrafungen geht so vor sich, da Abt. Ill (G.0.) dos Stalags die vom Kommandanten verhnten Strafen der Abt. ib (Kartei) zur Fintragung in die.P.K. I der betreffenden Kgf. bekanntgibt. Die von den Kompanien bzw. Batlen. verhngten Strafen werden der Kommandantur des Stalag VIII B Abt. Ill (G.0.) gemeldet, die ihrerseits die Keldung der Abt. Kartei zur Eintragung in die P.K. I weitergibt. Nach erfolgter Eintragung sondet die Abt. Kartei die Meldung mit dem Vermerk der erfolgten Eintragung an die Batlee bzw. Kompanien zurck.

Feldurteile werden weiter im Stalagbefchl bekanntgegeben.

nen.au.den.K.Arb.Kdos.(G.0-)Der Grund einer groen Anzahl von Pluchten Kriegsger angener von den1f•rbeKdos. liegt, insbesonderc bei den sowj. Kgf., nach den hier gemachten Irmittl ungen daran, dass die Bedarfstrarer

•odor ihre Angestellten die I., die nach § l Abs. 1 Zah 6 WDSTO der Militarstrafgewalt unterworfen sind, in ungebuhrlicher weise schla6en oder bestrafon; bei sowj. Kgf., die als landwirt- Schaftliche Arbeiter einzoln bei Landwirten eingesetzt sind, wurde die Erfahrun, gemacht, da diese trotz schwerer Arbeit oft uerst ungengend von den Bedarf stragern verpflegt werden und dabci oft schwore und vorantwortunsvolle Arbeiten zu. leistcn haben.I ch mache die Arbeitskommando fuhrer und die diesen vorgesetzten

Dienststellen dafiir personlich verantwortlich, dass sie alien von den Kgf. vorgebrachten Beschwerden gewissnhaft nachgehen, in ihrem eigenen Wirkungskrcise Abhilfe schaffen und, wenn dies nicht erfolst, sofort Meldung erstatten, BestrafungvonKriegsofangcnen.(G.o.)

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Feldw Hptm. Fei dw Stfw. Obi u n

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Wach- komp,

4./749 1./749 4./749 1./749 4./749 1./749

59, Ziffer 1 a) sein.StOliver- bekanntgegeben:

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Feldw. Sonntag Feldw. Scheffler Feldw. Sablotny Feldw. ZwonkowskiFeldw. Sonntag Feldw. SchefflerFeldw. Sablotny

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treter fur die Zeit vom a) Britenlager:

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r- 2.8—5.8.1945F '3.8—4.8.1945* 3.8—5.8.1945

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8.8—9.8.1945I b) Russenlager