to all of the countries in Southeastern Europe in which the Germans set up puppet regimes and used indigenous troops to murder their compatriots. T [ ... ]
protests were not based on any humane considerations was shown by the testimony of one of the defendant's own witnesses, General von Behr, who testi [ ... ]
furnishing, they joined hands and worked together as on a common enterprise. Finally, the defendants seek to throw as much of the blame for this co [ ... ]
permission from the Army before doing it. This one representative example - an illustration which could be multiplied many score, will suffice. SS [ ... ]
knowledge and consent of the Army these organizations could not have come into a given divisional area at all, much less functioned independently af [ ... ]
defendants - that they were ignorant of the commission of these crimes. When they are asked to explain a daily report from one of their subordinate [ ... ]
order before it went to the commander for his signature, the letter was made in a more precise, formal and soldierly fashion. Following this discou [ ... ]
It was their business to know what was being done by their troops and they cannot escape the responsibility for these atrocities by saying that they [ ... ]
responsibility for tho order even though upon his being advised of it, he took no stops either to rescind it, to reprimand the officer who actually [ ... ]
rests with their superiors. Then does every defendant, be he a full Army or but a Corps commander conveniently place himself in a pivotal position f [ ... ]