there as planned. The difficulties were increased in middle October when the four best mountain divisions were recalled to Germany, thereby reducin [ ... ]
obliged to judge the situation as it appeared to the defendant at the time. If the facts were such as would justify the action by the exercise of j [ ... ]
conditions, as they appeared to the defendant at the time were sufficient upon which he could honestly conclude that urgent military necessity warra [ ... ]
police forces. This action appears from the language used to have been a retaliation measure and not a shooting of franc-tireurs. That it was exce [ ... ]
is also responsible if he orders, permits or acquiesces in such criminal conduct. His duty and obligation is to prevent such acts, or if they have [ ... ]
There is much that can be said, however, in mitigation of the punishment to be assessed from the standpoint of the defendant. Superior orders existe [ ... ]
of war (Fuehrer order dated 8 August 1943), that is to let them live; and on the other hand, to hang hostages from the next hostage camp for our own [ ... ]
XVth Mountain Corps, a position he had held since 1 November 1943. Other assignments involved in the present case are in regard to his command of th [ ... ]
as the governmental head of the state of Croatia even though his group represented only an estimated five percent of the population of the country. [ ... ]
that which it could not do directly. The true facts must control irrespective of the form with which they may have been camouflaged. Even internati [ ... ]