That is why the affiant comments on this action. He affirms that the Military Commander Serbia had no influence at all on the arrest of these Jews.
This brings me to the next document which is Geitner Document No. 149 on page 5 of Geitner Document Book VI and this will be offered as Geitner Exhibit 124. I don't want to read this particular document. It deals with the cunning acts committed by the Draja Mihailovic movement and the document is signed "On order of (Signed) Geib, General of the Artillery."
You happen to see here another document signed by General Geib of whom we heard that he was deputy of General Felber whenever the latter was absent. This also becomes clear from the document 142 which I read this afternoon. This is contained on page 85 of the Geitner Document Book V. It is the same General von Geib as the one mentioned previously.
This brings me to the next Document 150, which will be offered as Geitner Exhibit 125. This document is contained on page 6 of Geitner Document Book VI and it refers again to the treacherous conduct of war executed by the Draha Mihailovic movement where the partisans appear in German uniform, an act which of course is not admissible under international law. Document 151 on page 7 of Geitner Document Book VI will be offered as Geitner Exhibit 126. It describes the atrocious cruelties committed by the insurgents, mutilations of fallen or captured German soldiers, plunder, and lootings of the corpses, atrocious wounds on the corpses. There is, for instance, one dead German soldier mentioned who was nailed to the hard, frozen ground by a bayonet. The bayonet had been stuck through the head of the deceased.
I recommend this document also to the notice of the Tribunal whereupon undoubtedly the Tribunal will ask the question whether or not this was an action in compliance with the regulations of international law.
This will bring me to document 153, which will be offered as Geitner exhibit 127. It is contained on page 10 of Geitner document book 6. I don't want to read this document. It also deals with the usual sabotage and surprise activities of the insurgents.
The next document, which is Geitner document 154, will be offered as Geitner exhibit 128. This is contained on page of 11 Geitner document book 6 end this document also deals with sabotage acts commited by the insurgents end directed against German troops. Along one telephone line 150 telephone poles had been cut down. The last sentence is of possible interest, it says:
"Disarming of the Italian Commands stationed within the Command area an transporting them off, while the population gave a demonstration of its sympathy without any incidents. Approximately 1 000 members of the Italian army transported out of Serbia altogether (not counting transports passing through)."
This quotation proves that the transportation of the Italians which had left the Alliance was carried out in the proper manner.
The next document is Geitner document 155 and this will be offered as Geitner exhibit 129, it is contained on page 12 of document book 6. This document is proof that the counter actions of the military Commander Serbia directed against the excesses of the partisans did have a certain success, that is to say they were not useless. It then further describes the conduct of the war of the partisans during battles between the individual units.
This brings me to Geitner document 156.
MR. FULKERSON: No. 128, is the English version that I have does not show what exactly this report is, Doctor. It shows that it is a report, but from whom or to whom does not appear. I object to it on that grounds.
DR. SAUTER: I shall refer back now to document 154. I beg your pardon. This is a document, which was also found among the documents which were received from Washington. Of course, we cannot do any more than present this document, we cannot make any additional remarks to this document.
THE PRESIDENT: Can you describe it as a report of what unit, from what war diary or how can we tell from what document it is, what is it a copy of
DR. SAUTER: I shall make inquiry about this point and perhaps I can make an explanation tomorrow morning. At the moment, I am not informed concerning this question.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: Very well, the Tribunal will recess until (9:30 tomorrow morning.)
(A recess was taken until 0930 hours, 23 December 1947.)
Court No. V, Case No. VII.
Official transcript of the American Military Tribunal in the matter of the United States of America, against Wilhelm List, et al, defendants, sitting at Nuernberg, Germany, on 23 December, 0930, Justice Carter presiding.
THE MARSHAL: All persons in the Courtroom will please find their seats.
The Honorable, the Judges of Military Tribunal V. Military Tribunal V is now in session. God save the United States of American and this Honorable Tribunal.
There will be order in the Court.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Marshal, you will ascertain as to whether or not all the defendants are present in the Courtroom.
THE MARSHAL: May it please Your Honor, all the defendants are present in the Courtroom with the exception of the Defendant von Weichs, who is in the hospital.
THE PRESIDENT: Judge Carter will preside at this day's session.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: You may proceed, Dr. Sauter.
DR. SAUTER (Defense Counsel for Defendant von Geitner): If Your Honors please, first of all, I would like to have a correction entered into the record with reference to exhibit numbers. I have checked on some of the exhibit numbers, and I would like to suggest that documents No. 111, No. 112, and No. 113 -- three documents which belong together be given Exhibit Nos. 28A, 29A, and 30A, respectively. This will have to be done because in a different context these exhibit numbers have been used previously. To repeat, Geitner Documents No. 111 will become Exhibit No. 28A; Geitner Document No. 112 will become Exhibit 29A; and Geitner Document No. 113 will become Exhibit No. 30A--so that we don't use the same exhibit number for two different documents.
I would further like to suggest that Geitner Document No. 28 become Geitner Exhibit No. 64A. I repeat -
Geitner Document No. 28 will become Geitner Exhibit No. 64A, and this will have to be done because the Exhibit No. 64 has been used for another document, and this was Geitner Document No. 80. In this way we shall be able to prevent any misunderstanding and errors.
I shall now turn back to Geitner Document Book VI. Part of the documents contained in this Document Book I presented already yesterday. I hope to be able to soon be finished with the balance of this Document Book. First of all, there is another addition which I would like to make, and this concerns Geitner Document No. 154--that is on Page 11 of Geitner Document Book VI, and it was given Geitner Exhibit No. 128. The Prosecution asked yesterday who compiled this five-day report, dated the 15th of September 1943 and from which agency this report was issued -- this report which is Geitner Document No. 154. From the photostat copy which was handed to the Secretary General it becomes apparent that this document is signed "Military Commander Southeast, Ia," and that the report was directed to the OKH; that is the High Command of the Army. That is what I would like to add with reference to this document in order to answer the question of the Prosecution. What I said just now with reference to Geitner Document No. 154 also applies to the next document which I dealt with yesterday. That is Document No. 155, Geitner Exhibit No. 129. This is on Page 12 of Geitner Document Book VI. It is, again, one of the usual reports from the Military Commander Southeast, Ia, and it is addressed to the OKH. I had finished yesterday with Document No. 156, in Geitner Document Book VI, on Page 13 of this Document Book. It will be given Geitner Exhibit No. 130. This document, if your Honors please, belongs to those approximately one hundred documents which were, at a later date, sent to us from Washington. It is an annex to the War Diary. It contains the diary of a Serbian partisan.
This diary was obviously captured at the time by German troops and, as a cultural document, it was added to the War Diary of the unit concerned. Together with the War Diary this document fell into the hands of the Allies, and thus it eventually came to Washington; from Washington it was sent back to us to Nuernberg. This is how we gained knowledge of this partisan diary. We are submitting this document because it gives an interesting insight into the psychological and the mental attitude, and into the opinions of such a Serbian partisan, and particularly because it is to prove that, according to their own notes, the Serbian partisans had women and children amongst those under arms, and that women and children helped them, supported them, and were used in the fighting. Such women and children were, as can be seen from this document, praised in song and idolized. Seen from the Serbian point of view this is quite comprehensible; however, it does not seem to be in accordance with the meaning of International Law and of the provisions of the Hague Rules for Land Warfare. This document, of which I have submitted the photostat as Exhibit No, 130, also shows the fierce ethnic battles between individual partisan groups and the individual tribes. It shows the hatred and the cruelty with which such battles were waged. From this whole document, which is rather extensive, I only read the last sentence on Page 14. Here the author of this partisan diary writes on Page 14, towards the middle, approximately, and "Page 32" is underlined:
"It is two things which shocked me most of all in Busnia, and dampened my spirits: the thirst for blood and the filth. The Chetniks massacre the Moslems and the Catholics, the Ustaschen, the Pravoslavs. They massacre, sack, annihilate whole villages, even annihilating their families. And those people were mostly the victims of the Italians, those perfidious occupyers, for they have armed and fed the Chetniks.
And I should say that these bloodthirsty ones, who like best to search for the hiding places of our wounded, are really elated about this fratricide. These hyenas, these vultures! An abyss of terror opened up before me and my thoughts. How was this preserved in our nation throughout the centuries? What or who is responsible for it? Is it possible that Cain is still lurking and alive in the depths of our consciousness?"
This is the quotation which I did not want to withhold from the Tribunal because people like us here or on the other side of the Ocean can only, with difficulty, understand the mentality of the people of the Balkans.
This brings me to the next document, which is Document No. 157, Exhibit No. 131, on Page 15 of Geitner Document Book VI. I don't want to read this document in detail. It contains a report from the Military Commander Serbia. That is, General Felber, who was the Defendant von Geitner's second commander. The report is addressed to the Commander in Chief Southeast, Army Group F, and it concerns the fighting value of the Bulgarian occupation troops. In this way it concerns the endeavous of General Felber to get reinforcements of the troops at his disposal. He did that in order to restrict reprisal measures wherever possible. All these exhibits which show the efforts for a reinforcement of the German troops General von Geitner is only offering to the Tribunal for the purpose of showing that everything possible was done to limit reprisal measures wherever possible and do without them wherever possible.
The next document is Geitner Document No. 158, on Page 16 of Geitner Document Book VI, and it will be offered as Geitner Exhibit No. 132. Here, again, I don't want to read the details of this document. It concerns the contradictory orders from higher agencies, and it is to show how difficult it was for the Commander in Serbia to cope with the administration, since several other agencies existed in that area, which were not subordinated to him. This document also shows the efforts on the part of the Military Commander Serbia, whose Chief of Staff was the Defendant von Geitner, for the abolishment of collective measures; but these efforts were objected to by the Higher SS and Police Leader Meyszner. It so happens that here, again, we have a note which bears out General von Geitner's statements along these lines, and this is one sentence on Page 17 of this document, under VI. I am reading from this sentence, and the heading is "Reprisal Measures.": 8177 "Collective measures to be stopped.
Meyszner opposes this. Neubacher today: Himmler's method is to be changed. Modifications."
From the handing "Reprisal Measures" it can be seen, for the evaluation of this brief passage, that in the oral report to Field Marshal von Weichs it was to be expressed that reprisal measures were to be mitigated. The heading of this document reads "oral report to the Commander in Chief Southeast, Field Marshal von Weichs, on 20 October 1943." This oral report, which cannot be seen from the document itself--that is indicated by the initials at the end of it--was held by the Defendant von Geitner himself.
This brings me to the next document, which is Document No. 159, on Page 18 of Geitner Document Book VI. This will be offered as Geitner Exhibit No. 133. This, again, is an oral report by the Higher SS and Police Leader in Serbia, whose name was Meyszner, to the Commander in Chief Southeast, on 29th August 1942. That is, an oral report by the same Meyszner whom I mentioned when discussing the last document. From this document it becomes apparent that the Higher SS and Police Lender was independent in relation to the Military Commander in Serbia, whose Chief of Staff was the Defendant von Geitner. The document also shows Meyszner's attitude towards the Serbian population, which was in contrast to the attitude held by the Defendant von Geitner. It is said in the document:
"By Fuehrer order dated 23 January 1942 a Higher SSand Police Leader was appointed for Serbia, and I, That is Meyszner was commissioned to fill this position. According to the Fuehrer order the following responsibilities come under my jurisdiction:
1.) Coordinating all police matters, which are to be submitted to the Reich Leader of the SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior, according to distribution plan concerning official business as well as, especially, the supervision, organization, and deployment of Serbian police forces."
From this oral report of the Higher SS and Police Leader Meyszner it can be seen that he, in his sphere at least, according to his own opinion, was completely independent. As the Tribunal can gather from this document, he does not mention the Military Commander for Serbia at all. He leaves him out altogether, and he feels himself to be completely independent; and that is why we submit this document.
The next document, is Geitner Document No. 160, on Page 19, of Geitner Document Book VI, and will become Geitner Exhibit No. 134, It is a communication from General Bader, who was the first commander and superior of the Defendant von Geitner. The communication is dated the 12 of January 1943, and it is addressed to the Bulgarian Occupation Corps. It is a communication dated the 12th of January 1943, and it is said in the report by Bader:
"The following decision has been made according to application. After 8 suspicious persons had been arrested by Bulgarian troops these persons were shot dead when they tried to escape. By the death of those 8 suspects the attack is considered expiated. Further shootings of expiation prisoners or hostages must not be executed."
The signature is "Bader, Commanding General and Military Commander in Serbia."
We have submitted this document as a renewed example for the fact that General Bader also conscientiously checked applications for reprisal measures, and he rejected them if he didn't think he could take the responsibility for them.
The next document is Geitner Document No. 161, on Page 20 of Geitner Document Book VI, and this will be offered as Geitner Exhibit No. 135. It is a communication which the Defendant von Geitner personally, by order of the Military Commander Southeast, sent to the OKW, Department of Prisoners of War, and I read from this communication.
The date is 12th April 1944:
"Please find enclosed a list of Yugoslavian Prisoners of War, as submitted by the Serbian Government, with the request to release these officers, non-commissioned officers, and enlisted men mentioned therein from captivity as soon as possible, and to set them en route for Belgrade."
The communication is signed von Geitner. The Defendant von Geitner attaches importance to this document because, through this document, he intends to prove how much he concerned himself with the interests of the Serbian people and with the pacification of that country. He realized that the Serbian people were, of course, extremely interested in the welfare of their prisoners of war. I commented on this point in a different context yesterday.
This brings me to the next document, which is Geitner Document No. 162, contained on Page 21 of Geitner Document Book VI, and this will be offered as Geitner Exhibit No. 136. It is a communication of the Commanding General and Military Commander in Serbia, and it is dated the 17th of October 1942. That is, it dates from a period of time when Bader was the Military Commander. The communication is addressed to the SS Division "Prinz Eugen." I shall not read in detail from this document. It contains only a recognition of the same facts which were discussed yesterday in connection with another document, and that is the surprise attack on the Antimony plant.
The facts were discussed in detail yesterday, and the document again shows how the highest levels were interested in the reprisal measures carried out and whether the orders were adhered to.
This brings us, if your Honors please, to a number of documents which I would like to discuss as belonging together. They are Documents 163, 164, 165, 166, 168, 170, 172 and 173. These eight documents belong together and for practical purposes are one entity. These eight documents are to show the constant efforts on the part of the military commanders for Serbia to improve the organization and to clarify the channels of command and thus to strengthen the effectiveness and the functioning of the German administration in Serbia. The applications made by the Military Commander for Serbia and by his staff and which are represented through these documents are, above all, directed against the independence of the Plenipotentiary General for Economy and against the independence of the Higher SS and Police Leader, also against the measures taken by these functionaries, whose instructions and orders, in the opinion of the Military Commander for Serbia and also in the opinion of the defendant von Geitner, made it very difficult to maintain law and order in the Serbian area. All this becomes apparent from these eight documents, and it can be further seen from them that after the establishment of the Office of the Military Commander Southeast, the Higher SS and Police Leader succeeded in maintaining his independence and even to enlarge this independence whereby he was supported by Field Marshal Keitel, who was Chief of the OKW.
I would now like to mention for the record which exhibit numbers will be given to these documents. Document 163 -- Geitner Document 163, on page 23 of Geitner Document Book VI, will be given Geitner Exhibit Number 137. This document, which happens to bear also the signature of the Defendant von Geitner and which is a teletype addressed to the Chief of the General Staff with the Armed Forces Commander Southeast, shows Geitner's efforts for the clarification and simplification of channels of command which existed in that area.
The next document is Geitner 164 on page 23 of Geitner Document Book VI, and this will be given Geitner Exhibit Number 138. This is a file note concerning a conference of the Plenipotentiary General for Economics with the field and district administrative sub-area headquarters, dated 22 August 1942.
This file note is not signed. Therefore, we are in no position to establish who is the author of this file note, but it is an enclosure to the War Diary of the Military Commander for Serbia, and with this War Diary this came to us from Washington. Therefore, there can be no doubt as to its authenticity. The document deals with the immediate subordination of the Plenipotentiary General for Economy to Goering, as chief of the 4-year plan which subordination had always been objected to by the Military Commander for Serbia. Also, this document throws a light on the attitude towards the Serbian population.
The next document is Geitner Document 165, on page of Geitner Document Book VI, and this will be given number -- Geitner Number 139. This is a rather detailed communication of the Commander in Serbia, General Bader, who was the first commander under whom the Defendant von Geitner was Chief of Staff; and the communication is addressed to the Armed Forces Commander Southeast. It is dated 12 September 1942, and this communication also deals with the organization in Serbia. It is to show the Tribunal that the Generals down there concerned themselves also with other matters than shootings and hangings, as the Prosecution at one time asserted. This Document Number 165, which I recommend to the judicial notice of the Tribunal without my having to read it, shows the efforts on the part of General Bader and his Staff for the creation of clear conditions. General Bader makes some very detailed suggestions and applications so that there should not be a number of agencies existing next to each other and possibly working at cross purposes in their administration.
The next document which I would like to deal with is Geitner Document Number 166. It will be given Geitner Exhibit 140. It is quite a brief document, on page 27 of Geitner Document Book VI. It is a communication of the Commanding General and Commander in Serbia dated a month after the preceding communication and it is addressed to the Armed Forces Commander Southeast.
The communication contains approximately the same remarks as the preceding document and actually it is just a continuation of the document just discussed. It is a warning voiced by the Military Commander for Serbia. I would just like to read the last sentence: "if it should now be possible to avert the present crisis once more, then the danger exists that a crisis will develop again in a short time if the command conditions in Serbia do not undergo a definitive simplification similar to the Belgian arrangement."
In this connection, I would like to deal with the next but one document which is Geitner Document 168, on page 29 of Geitner Document Book VI, which will be given Exhibit Number Geitner 141. The document which I skipped I shall deal with in another context. Geitner Exhibit Number 141 is a communication from the Commanding General and Commander in Serbia, General Bader, and, as is shown by the photostatic copy, this communication is addressed to the Operational Department of the OKW and to the Armed Forces Commander Southeast, Army Group E. It is a communication dated 29 April 1943. This document again shows the efforts made on the part of the Military Commander for Serbia to create clearcut channels of command, and the document throws light on a strange fact, namely, that the Higher SS and Police Leader sent his reports not to the Military Commander for Serbia who was responsible for the area, but instead directly to the Reich Leader SS, so that the Military Commander in Serbia was excluded from this channel of report for all practical purposes. In this communication the Military Commander for Serbia complains about this fact and he write in the last but one paragraph, and I am quoting, "Accordingly, there exists in Serbia the situation, impossible for me and undignified for my soldiers, that my orders issued in the interest of the security of the country, can be attacked by a subordinate through police channels without my learning anything about it.
"However, I have to bear the responsibility for everything which happens here."
The next document which I would like to offer to the Tribunal in this connection is the next but one document, Document Geitner 170. This is on page 31 of Geitner Document Book VI, and it will be given Geitner Exhibit Number 142. I repeat, Geitner Document 170, on page 31 of Geitner Document Book VI. This is a communication which in this particular case happens to be signed by the Defendant von Geitner for the Commanding General and Commander in Serbia. The communication is addressed to quite a number of agencies, as can be seen from the distribution list. The distribution list is on the lefthand side towards the bottom of the page. This communication deals again with the old subject, namely, the clarification of the channels of command, abolishment of the various co-existing channels of reports, and reorganization with reference to the responsibility which the individual officer had to bear. This was Document Geitner 170.
And this brings me to the next but one document which is Geitner Document 172, because this document deals with the same subject. It is Geitner Document 172 on page 34 of Geitner Document Book VI, and it will be offered as Geitner Exhibit 143. This again is a communication from the Military Commander Southeast dated 15 October 1943. It is a teletype addressed to the OKW Operational Department, and a copy went to Neubacher for information -- that is Neubacher whom we have heard of here repeatedly. This communication shows the continuous efforts of the Military Commander Southeast and the Military Commander for Serbia, also of the defendant von Geitner, for the clarification of the channels of command and for the simplification of the administration.
The next following document, 173, belongs to this group of documents, and this is on page 35 of Geitner Document Book VI, and it will be given Exhibit Number, Geitner, 144. I repeat: Geitner Document 173, Exhibit 144, on page 35 of Geitner Document Book VI. This is a communication from the Military Commander Southeast, dated 23 October 1943, and addressed to Army Group F, for the Attention of the Chief of the General Staff there. This document also contains the efforts for a creation of clearcut conditions for improvement of administration, for clarification of the relations between the Military Commander for Serbia and the independent position of the Higher SS and Police Leader, etc. I would like to draw attention to Paragraph 2 of this report, dated 23 October 1943, page 35, where it is stated: "the Higher SS- and Police Chief, according to the directive given him on 1 February 1942 which is still in force, receives his instructions for the military security of the country and for all military operations by the Supreme Commander Serbia. It is unwarranted the General himself an Commander-in-Chief Serbia writes to make these instructions dependent on a previous approval of the Reichsfuehrer SS." That is the end of my quotation. The balance of the document is along the same lines. It is one eternal struggle for a satisfactory organization of the channels of command. But I would like to draw attention to Paragraph 6 on page 36; and it is stated here, "Up to the present time all operations in which police forces participated have been previously discussed with the Higher-SS and Police Chief without any objection on his part, at any time." I have only read this passage because I would like to make it quite clear that the word "operations" in this context apparently just refers to tactical, that is military operations, but not to police operations. This becomes apparent from the contents of the whole document, but it might be expedient to point this out particularly.
These, then, are the eight documents which form a group with which I dealt all together.
I would now like to offer in evidence two other documents which deal with a different subject. This is document 167 and 171. Geitner Document Number 167 and Geitner Document 171. Geitner Document 167, on page 28 of Geitner Document Book VI, will be offered as Geitner Exhibit 145. Geitner Document 171, on page 32 of Geitner Document Book VI, will be given Geitner Exhibit Number 146. These two documents, if your Honors please, are to show the Tribunal the efforts of General Bader, who was the first commander of Serbia and also the efforts of von Geitner as Chief of Staff to improve the situation in Serbia and Croatia by suggesting political means. For this purpose General von Geitner wishes to submit this document. He wants to refute the once Before objected to assertion of the Prosecution, namely, that the Military Commander in Serbia had nothing else in his head than reprisal measures and things along that line. Geitner Document 167, which is Geitner Exhibit 145, shows that the Operational Department intervened because of the arrest of a DM -- (Draza Mihajlovic) Group member who was arrested because of a surprise attack on a railway line. These facts are somewhat connected with one of the document formerly presented by the Prosecution, that is NOKW-1562, Exhibit 2322, in Document Book IX, on page 135. I don't want to read any details from this document. And, from the next document, which I offer as Exhibit 146, that is Geitner Document 171, the contents of which goes along similar lines and also deals with the pacification of the Serbian population through political means. I would only like to read the last paragraph 3 on page 33, and this is: "Those present are of the opinion that it is high time to bring about a pacification in the Balkans by political means." Here I would like to stress the word "political" which is of importance to the defendant von Geitner.
After dealing with these two documents, 167 and 171, which belong together, I would like to deal summarily with another chapter which is shown by a number of documents, that is Geitner Documents 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180; also, Geitner Documents 182, 183, 184 and 185.
These documents which I enumerated just now again belong together according to their contents, and that is why I would like to deal with them as a group.
First of all, I would like to establish the exhibit numbers for the documents mentioned. Geitner Document 174 on page 37 of Geitner Document Book VI will be given Geitner Exhibit Number 147.
Document 175 on page 39 will be Exhibit Number 148.
Document 176 on page 40 will be Exhibit Number 149.
Document 177 on page 41 will be Exhibit Number 150.
Document 178 on page 42 will be Exhibit Number 151.
Document 179 on page 43 will be Exhibit Number 152.
Document 180 on page 44 will be Exhibit Number 153.
The next document I shall omit for the moment.
Document 182 on page 46 will be Exhibit 154.
Document 183 on page 47 will be offered Exhibit 155.
Document 184 on page 48 will be Exhibit 156.
Document 185 on page 49 will be Exhibit 157.
The documents just mentioned are documents which belong together according to their contents. All of them are to throw a light on the efforts of the Military Commander in Serbia in a different sphere; that is, to achieve pacification of the country by different means -- namely, by adequate food supplies for the population of Serbia, Greece and Montenegor, and also by other welfare measures as, for instance, the fact that refugee homes and schools were not to be requisitioned by German troops, by cooperation with the Swiss and Swedish Red Cross, by the fighting of black market activities, in order to establish by these means a foundation for law and order.
In brief, there were quite a number of efforts made by the Military Commander for Serbia and his Chief of Staff to give the population food and work in order in this way to contribute to the maintenance of law and order.
There are only a very few brief points which I would like to stress in more detail. There is in Document 174 on page 37 of Document Book VI, which is Geitner Exhibit 147, a sentence where the Chief of Staff of the Military Commander for Serbia who signed this documents points out to the Commander in Chief Southeast, Army Group E, that a better supply of the civilian population should be made sure of. He encloses in this connection an extensive correspondence between him and the General Plenipotentiary for Economy, the frequently mentioned Neuhausen, the demands in this communication that the Serbian population be supplied with food. He points out what effects a ruthless confiscation of corn as it was apparently visualized by the general Plenipotentiary for Economy would have on the population.
On page 39 you can see how the Commanding General and Commander of Serbia General Bader addressed a strong letter to the General for Serbian Economy Plenipotentiary.