In the latter connection he said that in order to deceive the OKW, many partisans were reported to be "temporarily arrested". Kuntze says that the H [ ... ]
occupied identical positions. Both were Chiefs of Staff and both attempt to base their defense mainly upon the nature of the powers, duties and resp [ ... ]
decreed that persons from all walks of the population be arrested as hostages and shot in the event of hostile actions against the occupation power. [ ... ]
as prisoners of war. This is contradicted by the documents introduced during the cross-examination of the defense affiants Colonel von Harling and G [ ... ]
1942 that the Army chief of staff lead requested by telephone that all mayors who remained passive were to be shot to death. The report which Foerts [ ... ]
Courts 5, Case 7 his replacement by Felber. Geitner was Chief of Staff to both. The evidence shows that during this entire period, hostages were bein [ ... ]
The ferocity and obvious senselessness of such measures, from a deterrent standpoint, can only lead one to believe that so far as Geitner and his co [ ... ]
been so improvident of its money, manpower, and brains as to waste a person of the rank, experience and intelligence of Foertsch and Geitner on such [ ... ]
"At the head of the Staff stands the Chief of the General Staff. He is the first counselor of the Commanderin-chief in all fields. Close relations [ ... ]
The General Staff bible, to which we have already averted, states that a Chief of Staff must feel the pulse beat of his unit at all times and that h [ ... ]