to determine who committed the acts which were answered by reprisal measures, and which was the nature of those acts. It must be stated preliminari [ ... ]
partisan movement. I shall take up this point again when discussing the individual prosecution documents. [ ... ]
I shall omit the next pages from the reading and I will continue with page 18 at the top. The pages which are omitted contain various statements co [ ... ]
the German Wehrmacht in Croatia only consisted of regular, magnificently led units who wore the best of uniforms and observed the law of warfare in [ ... ]
claim whatsoever to be treated according to the rules of warfare. By their manner of combat they had placed themselves outside of any law. Robbery [ ... ]
taken up by the statement that inhabitants of the country were executed in a proportion of 50 or 100 for each German soldier killed. If the Chief P [ ... ]
given or passed on by him, which refers to reprisal quotas. Beyond this they have not proved in any way that within the area covered by his corps a [ ... ]
before in the Croatian area, it was really self evident in view of the constitutional situation in this territory. This is proved with absolute cer [ ... ]
That means that the same Prosecution express two different legal opinions within the same trial. There could be no better proof of the difficulty a [ ... ]
D.1) After this point has been cleared up in principle I can now turn to the documents offered by the prosecution in evidence of the fact that my c [ ... ]