not getting it over the sound system.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Can you hear me now, Sir? Do you get it now?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, I get it now. Can you hear me?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Yes, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Alright, then we are alright now.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Continuing on page 11 under paragraph 27.
"27.) 1st Bn. Inf. Regt, 330 reports on 7 June 1941:
"According to trustworthy information by a local ethnic German who eavesdropped on a conversation between a peasant from GernyiMilanovac and a civilian from Belgrade, two Chetnik regiments with arms and ammunition are said to be located in the mountains and large forests near G. Milanovac (90 km. south of Belgrade, as the crow flies,) they are said to receive their food supply from Gernyi-Milanovac. The battalion requests further instructions in the matter."
Next, on page 14 under paragraph 35:
"36. Wehrmacht liaison post reports:
"1. Montenegro:
"A band of about 1500 - 2000 ex-soldiers has formed in the environs of Niasic under the command of the Serb general Stanjecic. They are equipped with arms, also artillery. They want to fight for a free Montenegro and have opened the struggle against Italians and Croats. They are waging guerilla warfare in units of company strength."
THE PRESIDENT: Pardon me, may I inquire as to whether you have many of these items?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: I should take about five minutes more, Your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we will adjourn at this time and you can read them into the record in the morning. The Tribunal will be in recess until tomorrow morning.
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal will be in recess until 9:30 tomorrow morning.
(A recess was taken until 0930 Hours, 6 January 1947).
Official Transcript of Military Tribunal V, Case VII, in the matter of the United States of America against Wilhelm List, et al, defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germany, on 6 January 1948, 0930, Justice Burke presiding.
THE MARSHAL: 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 America and this Honorable Tribunal.
There will be order in the Court.
THE PRESIDENT: Mr. Marshal, will you ascertain if all the defendants are present in the Courtroom?
THE MARSHAL: May it please your Honors, all defendants are present in the Courtroom with the exception of defendant von Weichs who is in the hospital and defendant Foertsch who is excused by the Tribunal for today.
THE PRESIDENT: Judge Burke will preside for this day's session.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: If your Honors please, yesterday afternoon prior to the adjournment I was reading some excerpts into the record from the War Diary of the Military Commander of Serbia which was offered as List Document 200, introduced into evidence by Dr. Laternser as List Exhibit 42. These excerpts are in List Document Book IV-A.
Continuing on page 17, the last paragraph at the bottom of the page:
"Part of them found billets in the village in the elementary school building and others in a farmhouse near a forest. Their clothes vary, some still wear military uniforms and others peasants garb (short jacket and trousers) with sheepskin caps displaying the Cetnic badge. All of them are well armed, each man has besides his rifle and cartridge belt a dagger, pistol and some hand-grenades, and they also have two machine-guns.
In the group there are also three women clothed in military uniforms and caps, also armed. One is supposed to be a Czech and one a Serbian. Their leaders are an unknown General, Novakowitsch, several officers, and the deputy is Nikola Vokoevitsch, a mine superintendent who formerly worked in the village of Lipovica in the Oplenac district in the mines belonging to Milenko Lesarowitsch of Belgrade."
Turning next to page 28 to the top of the page:
"People even carry these weapons in public now. There are even Serbian officers in uniform."
Next on page 51, the paragraph at the top about in the middle of the paragraph: "The enemy's strength is approximately 4,000 men and although they retreated in places they are still on the offensive."
Finally on page 53, at the top of the page, paragraph 119A, Dr. Laternser yesterday read the first sentence into the record; I should like to read the balance of the paragraph.
"Perpetrator arrested. Ringleader jumped from the 4th floor while attempting to flee - died. Wife of perpetrator who had knowledge of the attempt was arrested, also 3 Jewesses in whose house the ringleader lived, are detained. The latter had plotted more bombing attacks."
PRESIDING JUDGE BURKE: You may continue, Dr. Laternser.
DR. LATERNSER: If the Tribunal please, I shall continue with the presentation of my documents. The last document I dealt with was Exhibit 42. I submitted that document in order to show the Tribunal the extent of the partisan activity. During the period of time between the 5th of September, which is the day when Fieldmarshal List issued the order which comprises Prosecution Exhibit 42. For the same subject matter, I have further evidence to submit in order to have the Tribunal gain the conviction that the situation in Serbia required the most stringent measures of the Military Commanders there seen from a military point of view.
Document 201 has already been submitted by me as List Exhibit 7. This document is contained in List Document Book IV-A on page 79. There are a few passages yet which I would like to read from this document. I would like to read from page 80 in Document Book IV-A, page 80 on the top. It says "Teletype to the German General in Zagreb.
"6,000 Serbs were again driven into Serb territory near Bogatic. Ustascha-mon threatened that in two days 12,000 (twelve thousand) more are to be driven away. The refugees have no food. Local remonstration to Croats was of no avail. Emphatic remonstration to the Croat government is requested. The Commander of Serbia" I have read this passage into the record because it speaks against the plan which has been asserted by the prosecution.
I shall continue to read from the bottom of page 80:
"The commander of Serbia Command Staff Department Ia.
"11 July 1941 Activity Report of the Department Ia During the Month of June 1941."
I shall now turn to page 81:
"1. From 3 June 1941 on Serb custom officials were transported to the Serb border to close it. The reason was to prevent the influx of former Yugoslav money for change into new Serb notes. The custom officials were at first trained and supervised by German troops."
I shall skip the next few sentences and continue from 3 on page 81:
"3. 5 June 1941. Explosion in the ammunition dump Smederevo. Great destruction in the city. Killed: Wehrmacht - 10, civilians - about 500. Injured: Wehrmacht - 110, civilians about 700.
4. Owing to the beginning of the Russian war lively Communist activity."
I shall only read No. 7 now from this page:
"7. Throughout the whole of the month sallies of the Hungarians, Croats, and Bulgarians had to be warded off."
The signature is, "For the Commander of Serbia, The Chief of the Command Staff."
I am maintaining that these sallies of the German troops would have been correct if the plan asserted by the prosecution had actually existed.
I would now like to draw the Tribunal's attention to List Document 148. This document is contained on page 11 in Document Book List I. The contents of this document have been submitted by the prosecution as Exhibit 128 and 527. But it was only contained in the photostat of the actual exhibit not in the document books. Therefore, I had to include this extract into my document book so that it could be translated. This document, since it has already been submitted as Exhibit 128 and 527 I shall not give an extra exhibit number.
THE PRESIDENT: Would you give the exhibit number again? I mean the prosecution exhibit number?
DR. LATERNSER: Yes, your Honor, 128 and 527. These are daily reports of the Armed Forces Commander Southeast, addressed to the OKW, covering several days between the 8th of August and the 4th of September. The Tribunal may gather from these reports the strong activity pursued by the insurgents. Furthermore, the fact in which sober and matterof-fact way these events were reported to the OKW.
I am not going to read any parts from this document but I recommend the contents of the whole of the document to the judicial notice of the Tribunal.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Your Honor, many of these extracts are from a period of time when it is contended that Fieldmarshal List was on leave. I should like to know from Dr. Laternser whether I am correct that he is contending, on the one hand, that Fieldmarshal List is not responsible for any of the activity that went on in the area, in the Southeast area during the period when he was on leave and, on the other hand, is he going to take advantage of certain activities which happened during that period?
DR. LATERNSER: I don't think that the prosecution contends is quite logical. For the period of time when Fieldmarshal von List was on leave, he can of course not be held responsible for any events which occurred. However, the band activity has to be regarded as one whole and this activity did not take into consideration the fact that Fieldmarshal von List was absent and if I want to prove what the extent of the band activity was before the fifth of September, then I shall have to prove that also for a period of time when Fieldmarshal von List was absent.
I have already said that I don't want to read anything from this document for other reasons, but I have recommend the whole contents of the document to the notice of the Tribunal. What extent the insurgent movement reached from the fifth of September is further borne out by Document 203 which I shall submit as List Exhibit 43. This document can be found in List Document Book IV-B on page 136. This is an excerpt from the War Diary of the LXV Corps. I shall read a few passages from this exhibit and I am going to start on the top of page 157.
"7 July 1941. Today the struggle of the bands begin in the former Serbian area and later in Banate; too. In the hope of Soviet successes or even parachuting of Soviets into Serbia, the Communists start guerilla warfare by raids and acts of sabotage affecting railways in particular."
The page number is 157 and I am reading from the top of the page. The document book is IV-B.
PRESIDING JUDGE BURKE: You may continue.
DR. LATERNSER: I shall continue to read now from page 158 from the top of the page.
"14.7.41. The impression is growing: 1. The acts of sabotage actually carried out in recent days affecting railways, telephone lines and bridges are undertakings of Communists bands in support of the routed Soviets. 2. Clashes between peasants and bands, exaggerated rumors of unrest, strikes and demolitions are enacted by Communist elements for the purpose of harassing the occupying forces.
"16. - 18. July. Increase in acts of sabotage particularly affecting telephone lines.
"19,7,41. In the district 15 km east of Topola armed band encircled by forces of the 714 Infantry Division. On the Jaboclina airdrome planes set on fire by Communists."
I shall continue to read from page 159 and I shall start to read the second sentence there. The date is 26 July 1941.
"In Banat the Communists are attempting to cause trouble by destroying the harvest, for instance 5 grain stacks burned near Petrograd, all the official grain threshing lists at Markovac, 20 kilometers SE of Palanka, destroyed. Reports are increasing that armed bands are disarming Serbian policemen.
I shall skip one paragraph and read the entry under:
"29 July 1941....The bands grow larger and are apparently well armed and show planned disturbances at all possible positions of the entire Corps sector. Acts of sabotage increase....
2 Aug. 1941....Attacks on railway stations and police posts increase."
3 August 1941 -- I will omit the first paragraph:
"Tracks blown up near Markovac. Ticket office in railway station robbed, policemen disarmed - both typical activities of the Communists who appear almost daily now. In a surprise attack against 2 cars of the 714th Signal Company: 2 soldiers dead, 1 wounded.
13 Aug. 1941 Order of the Commanding General: The fight against the bands and the maintenance of law and order, which heretofore was exclusively the duty of the police and gendarmes is turned over to 65th Corps: offensive warfare. Districts. District Commanders. Raiding units in raiding areas of the districts....."
I shall omit the first sentence.
"14 Aug. 1941. Attack at Eelarkva, 36 km NW of Valieve; losses: 2 dead, 2 wounded, 1 missing. Work halted in mine located there. I company assigned there.
"15 Aug. 1941. Munitions train attacked at Lajkovac; 5 dead, 7 wounded. A train carrying arms derailed 8 km SW of Mladenovac due to sabotage...
"16 Aug. 1941. Trip of General Bader to Valjevo with Chief. Tracks mined and train attacked in the Serbian part of the 3rd Division's sector. Railway bridge blown up - great activity by the raiding units, without particular results, however, battle in the sector of the 718th Infantry Division near Zwornick - Drinjura. Paymaster 1st Lt. Johann Wolf killed in attack on anti-tank column.
"17 Aug. 1941. Band activities in entire Save - Drine bend increase.
"17 Aug. 1941. Band activity increases near Zwernick, also near Sabac and in the area east of Uzice.
"19 Aug. 1941. In the north part of the bend of the Save the the number of rebels is increasing. Railroad section Lubljo-Lipolist If the raiding units often make no enemy contact, it is due to the expert retreat of the opponent in the uneven and wooden terrain. Acts of sabotage and attacks in all sector of this division, at the present time particularly in that of the 704th Infantry Division.
"20 Aug. 1941...Only certain designated trains are made available for Army traffic on account of the frequent attacks of the Communist bands against railway trains. These carry a guard."
I shall omit something hour and go on:
"Between Mokov and Sokulac column shot at.
"21 Aug. 1941 bands near Ponjavor, 22 km east of Loznica. Attack near Slepcevic, south of Sabac: Losses 3 dead, 10 wounded.
"22 Aug 1941 coal mine at Junkevei, 10 km MW of Lazarevac blown up.
"23 Aug 1941 Kraljeve-Cacak railway disrupted. Telephone lines destroyed.
"24 Aug 1941 in surprise attack while returning from Grabovac, several dead and wounded. 2 platoons from 6th Co. of 750th Regt. missing found by pilot SE of Debrc after units from Sabac and Raiding Detachment from Lazarevac have been sent out. Through him union with relieving units is possible. No workers in Krupanj - soldiers keep the plant going. Forcible inspection in Slupnica, 12 km SE of Loznica. Plundering and destruction of railway stations increase. Unrest increases in the Croatian sector. 26 Aug 1941. A truck in a convoy on the Kraljevo-Kragujevac road shot upon. Sabotage of telephone installations and attacks upon community public offices. Train convoy Valjevo - Uzic attacked, Stretch between Valjevo and Lajkovac blown up.
"27 Aug 1941. Police forces threatened and reinforced near Kammenica, 14 km NW of Valievo. Bands at the Ravna -- Reka mine.
"27 Aug 1941. Raiding Battalion I of 749th Regiment near Guca, 18 km SW of Cacak. Dirty attack upon Raiding Unit Battalion III, 749th Regt. between Jagodina and Kragujevac. 1 Lt. and 3 men dead, 3 wounded."
I shall continue to read on page 163 towards the middle of the page.
"28 Aug 1941. Attack on Engineer Unit on bridge 7 km east of Lazarevac - 6 victims despite protection of two machine guns.
"29 Aug 41. Insurrection increases in the Save bend - Bogulic; attack on bridge head near Mitrovica.
"30 Aug 41. Unrest now also in the eastern sector of the 714th Infantry Division near Zvijucar and Bor and Colubac.
"3 Sept 1941. III Battalion of 738th Regiment still encircled at Koviljuoa. The company is fighting its way through in the direction of Valjevo. 25 men arrived in Valjevo. 32 men in Kamenca. No report about the rest of the company. Rebels at Bogatic, surprise attack near Sabac, one platoon of the 668th Artillery Battery arrived in Bjeljina. All lines of the 718th Infantry Division to Zvornik destroyed."
"Attack 2 Sept in the area of 714th Infantry Division near Dwuja Salornia on a signal detachment. Railway protection at Milizove a strong attack successfully repulsed.... 714th Infantry Division: Railway bridge at Zablace, 8 km SE Cacak destroyed.....
3 Sept. 1941, Teletype to Military Commander Southeast-: Situation at Krupanj and Koviljuca serious, unchanged. Relief attempts from Valjevo and, on the Croatian sector, from Zvornik - Kozlar can not be effected until 4 Sept Area west of the Mitrovica - Sabac - Valjevo - Ragacica line is in power of rebels.
4 Sept. 1941 Only radio communication left with the divisions in the Serbian sector. 2 companies encircled at Krupanj were captured in breakthrough attempt, assisted by Stukas.... Our losses: 2 companies in Krupanj, one company and one platoon missing in Loznica and Zajuca. Strong band development reported from the areas SE of Mitrovica, at Stabiline and Lajkovac.
4 Sept. 1941 ... Everywhere fight against small bands . . . .
6 Sept. 1941 .. Valjevo threatened, committed until now the 3rd and 5th Co. of 724th Regt., 12th Co. 749th Regt., and 1 Reading Unit from the 749th Regt. Losses at Krupanj: 5 officers, 21 non-commissioned officers and 145 men. The relieving unit and the rest of those who broke out of Krupanj reached Valjevo at midnight."
DR. LATERNSER: May I draw the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that the Krupanj incident where the losses amounted to 5 officers, 21 non-commissioned officers and 145 men in this one incident, took place on the 4th of September, 1941?
That brings me, for the moment, to the end of this document, and in a different context I should like to read a few passages into the record.
I am now going to present List document 104, and this will become List Exhibit 44. This document can be found in List Document Book 4b, on page 177. This document is an excerpt from the War Diary of the 718th Infantry Division. I am going to read only a few passages concerning incidents which took place before the 5th of September.
May I, before I start, point out to the Tribunal the fact that pages 178 to 203, deal exclusively with such incidents. I am only going to read a very few passages, however, from this document. The document starts on page 177, and I shall read my first passage from page 182, towards the middle of the page:
"8 August 1941. Report by Artillery Battalion 668, Doboj:
8 Gendarmery officers in Olove murdered alledgedly after storming and burning of the Gendarmery barracks. 400 armed Serbs are said to be advancing from direction Kladanj-Olove towards Zavidovici". Now the last paragraph:
"Report Artillery Battalion 668:
During the attack of Cetnici on km. 104-106 of the railway line Zavidovici and Olove, a railway bridge was blown up southeast of Olove."
Now a paragraph on page 183:
"7 August 1941:
22.00 Long - distance call by I.R. 750: On 7.8., at 09.00 hrs. a band of about 100 men attacked Bogatic. The Chief of the District, his deputy, as well as one civilian were shot, 1 racial German was seriously injured. The band and the civilian population suffered losses that could not be ascertained. Telephone communications were disrupted. Prisoners were set free and most of the Serbian Gendarmery disarmed."
I shall continue now on page 184:
"9 August 1941 0930 hours:
Two ambulances on their way from Sarajevo to Belgrade (return after abandonment of the war hospital in Sarajevo) were taken under fire by Serbian Insurgents on Thursday 7 August 1941, at about 0830 hours in the village of Sokolac, 1 km northeast on the road to Klasmica."
I am not going to read anything from page 185, but I shall continue to read on page 186 on the top of the page there:
"1045 hours:
Pioneer Comp. reports: Dynamiting of a rail of the double track line Brod to Zagreb. Time of the dynamiting 0120, approximately 10 seconds after the passing of the leave train. The last carriage had just got over the spot when the track was blown up. Duration of the traffic holdup about 2 hours. " I shall skip page 187 and read a passage from page 188, the last one-third of the page there:
"18 August, 1941".
I am omitting the first sentences:
"Place combed free from Communists. The male population has left Lipolist, some prisoners were brought in and are being interrogated." I shall continue now to read from Page 189: "1130 hours".
I omit the first paragraph and continue where it says:
"Drinyaca was fired upon with artillery by the Serbs in the night from 18th to 19th.
20 August 1941. 1000 hours. Ascertained that women in the houses there are in in contact with insurgents, supplying them with food. There is evidence that the insurgents are going about in women's clothing."
I shall now read from page 190, second half of the page: "21 August, 1941:
"1150 hours". I am omitting the first two sentences:
On the March back the 8th/Inf.Reg. 750 meets with fire (losses 3 killed, 10 wounded.)
Report from Inf. Reg. 738: The area Company of the MokroRomanya-Sokalac combed by the 5th and 6th 738 and 1 platoon of Art. Det. 668. The bodies of the 6 soldiers killed on 19 August are recovered. 11th Company Inf. Reg. 738 returns from the operation ordered by the 704th Inf. Div. to the Lipolist area. Losses: 7 killed."
I shall now read on page 191:
"1737 hours:
I. Lt. Pott, 0-1 (special missions officer attached to the Ia) with the Higher Command LXV Corps; 704th Infantry Division requests to establish contact with the IIIrd Battalion of Infantry Regiment 738. The situation is very critical! On the march from Sminjak to Sabac the 8th Company of Regiment 750 encountered rifle-fire at 19.00 hours. Losses: 3 dead, 11 wounded.
I am omitting the next paragraph, and will continue on the 22nd August, 1941:
"Insurgents retreated to the Kozara. 2031: Teletype from Armored Train 24; 2 to 3 kilometers southeast of Kostajnica about 50 burning houses observed."
I shall continue to read now from page 193. There it is stated under the 24th of August, 1941:
"Railroad station Rudanka destroyed. One murdered official was found. Doboj ammunition depot looted. About 2 carloads of ammunition were taken away by the insurgents. Two ammunition bearers were taken prisoners."
I shall now continue to read from page 195, 27 August 1941, 1610 hours:
Captain Fertner reports by telephone from Jajce:
Insurgents attacked today the Croatians near Sipovo. The latter abandoned the only gun without taking out the breech mechanism. The insurgents have the intent to advance from Varcar Vakuf towards the highroad Jajce-Banja Luka near Crna Rijeka. On the opposite bank of the Vras bands appeared. 12 villages around Jajce are burning. The people are slaughtered. About 2000 refugees from the burnt down villages arrived in Jajce. This results already in food difficulties.
I shall continue to read now from page 203. All of the incidents contained in the pages which I omitted also refer to the period of time before the 5th of September.
"5 September 1941" -- that is on page 203:
19.15 Telephone message from Captain Brunk:
"According to teletyped proclamations issued by the Commander of the insurrectionists Captain Milivoj Dukunovic, to-morrow the 6 September 1941 the mobilization of the entire male population able to bear arms from the vicinity of Zvornik will take place 3.5 kilometers east of Zvornik near Vlaska Njiva.
The insurrectionists are encamped near Machov Kam, 16 kilometers southeast of Zvornik. The 3rd Battalion of the 738th Regiment applies for air support."
23.20 Post Headquarter Brod reports, that at 22.50 o'clock the railway line Brod- Sunja was blown up.
This brings me to the end of this document just for the moment. In a different context I am going to read yet some other passages. The next document to be offered is List Document No. 205, and this will be submitted as List Exhibit 45.
This document can be found in List Document Book 5, on page 2. This is an excerpt from the Activity Report of the 704th Infantry Division. Here also, I am exclusively dealing with events that took place before the 5th of September. From the abundance of material available, I am just taking a few passages as examples, and I shall start reading from page 2:
2 August 1941 Company 2 and 4 of Regiment 274 jointly Valjevo with 1st Battalion of Regiment 724, are put into action against a band near Banjica, 10 km in southeasterly direction of Cacak, which had fired on a Wehrmacht truck near Bacak, looted the railroad station Zablace on the rail line CacakKraljevo and stopped and searched a train there.
On page 3 of the same document, towards the bottom of the page, the last but one:
"It is suspected that secret communications of the insurgents are transmitted by motor vehicles which are frequently disguised as Wehrmacht vehicles; Division orders the control of the motor vehicle traffic."
Page 4, approximately toward the middle of the page:
"5 August, 1941: Pantic band detachment of the people's liberators attempts to take hostages from the population and sends threatening letters to the Police."
I am now going to read from page 6 of this document, towards the bottom of the page. There it is stated under date of "11 August 1941:
Valjevo: A band 250 men strong, part of them in German uniforms, attacks the police station and railway station of Stubline, 40 km northwest of Valjevo."
Page 7 of this document:
"11 August, 1941. I am omitting the first paragraph and only read the impressions:
"The bands do not stand and fight, but withdraw from the scene of the action immediately after the attack. Their strength apparently lies in this."
The next page which is page 8, towards the bottom of the page, the last but one paragraph:
13 August 1941: On 14 August company goes on to Krupanj to make contact there with outguard in the Stolica antimony plant. 6km north of Krupanj. All quiet in Stolica. According to statements of inhabitants an attack on Krupanj is likewise imminent."
The next part to read will be on page 13, the last one-third of the page:
19.8.41 .........
Valjevo Division received report of a Communist band in the Sokolplanina (name not on map) at Stave, 15 km west of Valjevo. Through terror the band is compelling the peasants to join and an attack on Stolica and Krupanj is planned.
................
Mil. Adm. HQ. 816 Uzice reports: According to a report by a peasant from Kapavnik-mountain cast of the Ibar valley about 1000 Cetnici with machine guns and mountain artillery are supposed to be between Raska and Mitrovica, planning to attack Novi Pazar and Mitrovica during the next days, 500 men are said to have passed during the last days from the Rogosna mountain, west of the Ibar valley to the Kapavnik mountain.
Page 14, the last paragraph:
"20 August 1841, Valjevo: Mine of Zajaca closed, because on account of Communist threats workers don't show up for work. Supply of ore for one more day available, then the plant will have to be closed also because of lack of coal."
Page 15, at the top of the page, first paragraph:
"21 August 1941, Valjevo:
Decree of the Serbian Minister of the Interior regarding the struggle against Communist bands and restoration of peace and order."
Then the last paragraph toward the bottom of the page:
"23 August, 1941, Valjevo:
"In Stupnica, 12 km southeast of Losnica close to westerly road Valjevo-Losnica, Communists through placards are calling all men between the ages of 16 - 60 for recruitment and are threatening reprisals in case of non-compliance.
Besides call for mass-meeting at monastery Korenita, 10 km southwest of Losnica on road Stolica-Losnica, where the abbot, teacher and innkeeper will speak on 24 August 1941 on the subject: Procurement of more weapons and ammunition."
Then the last paragraph towards the bottom of the page 16:
"23 August 1941." I am omitting the first paragraph and will only read the last one:
"Higher Command LXV orders to search and surround the village of Grabovac, 14 km southwest of Obrenevac, presumably the seat of the Communist central agency of the Obrenovac district. Operation is named: Geier."
Then the last paragraph toward the bottom of the page:
"23 August 41: The truck is being shot at again on its way to Valjevo with the wounded. Return tu Ub."
Page 17, the second part of the page:
Communists prevent workers from reaching the foundry at Krupanj for work. For the time being operation kept up by 24 soldiers of the Squad 9 of 738 I.R. sent there as reinforcement. Standstill is imminent however, because of absence of workers and interference with the supply of wood and coal.
The last sentence on that page:
"Division receives Communistic pamphlets from Ub from the police station there."
Next, page 18: "25 August, 1941." Second paragraph, second sentence:
Mayor and peasants declare, they wish to collaborate with the German Army, but are under Communist pressure.
The last but one paragraph of the page : Under date:
"26 August, 1947:
A mayor reports that the Communists are using military registry lists of the town for recruitment."
The next page, 19, last paragraph:
"27 August, 1941: Furlough train Belgrade-Cisegrad at Vrtncl, 11 km west of Uzice attacked with machine gun and hand grenades."
Page 20, second half of the page:
27 August, 1941:
27.8.41 All long-distance telephone communications emanating Valjevo from Valjevo disrupted, except of the one to Uxice. The occupation of Priboj, Prijepolje, Novo Vares by an Ital Bat. reported by Colonel Gialla on 26.8.41 to the 2nd Bat. of 724 I.R. Vizegrad for 27.8., did not take place Italians advanced only up to Brodarevo, 18 km south of Prijepolje. Apparently they are pressing in the strength of one Regt. against the rebellious Montenegrins there, while at the same time deploying bombers from the South against the Croatian units fighting in the North.
The 1 platoon of the 3rd Bat. of 724 I.R. stationed at Krupanj for supply transport and temporary reinforcemen rides the 9th platoon of 738 I.R., after arrival of 11th platoon of 724 I.R., to Koviljaca and returns with equipment of the Pion. Comp. 704 from Koviljaca to Valjevo. Before Mojkovic, 14 km northeast of Krupanj it is shot at by machine gun fire.
No losses.
Page 21, top of the page:
27 Aug. 41 On my way back from Koviljaca to Valjevo near OsValjevo ladic 17 km northwest of Valjevo, at 18.30 hours, again shot at by 4 machine-guns along a track of 2 km, and thrown at with hand-grenades. Own losses: 2 killed, 1 missing, 12 wounded, one of whom seriously, 1 truck burnt out, enemy losses unknown.
Page 22, third paragraph:
"Agents report that a general coup with the aim of stopping the railway traffic is planned by the Communists."
I shall pass over page 23, and read from page 24, from the top of the page there:
"2 September 1941, Valjevo, 615 hours:
11th Co./724th I.R. Krupany reports:
1 September 20.00 hrs and 21.00 hrs. Stolica attacked surprisingly by rather strong enemy forces. 1 lieutenant, director of the plant, captured, another lieutenant probably killed, the platoon dispersed. One non-comm. officer, who was supposed to take report about situation at Stolica Zajaca to Krupanj, wounded at strong road block 2 km before Krupanj.
9.17 hrs Return of reconn. patrol to Krupanj with a group of the outguard Stolica. Advance to Stolica impossible, as patrol meets with mach.-gun fire from the hills 400 m before the mine. 20 men of the outguard still missing, 2 of which are certainly dead. Krupanj threatened as well, since gatherings on the surrounding hills. No radio contact with 12th Co./724th I.R. which was detailed to Loznica.
Last paragraph of this page:
15.55 hrs 11th Co./724th I.R. Krupanj reports:
11 men not yet returned, 2 of them certainly dead. At Stolica 300 kilos of explosives and 2 mac.-guns, one of which made unusable, fell into the hands of the Communists or the Chetniks.
Next page, 25: "2 September 1941" "2000 hours:
Chetnici who have surrounded Krupanj, demand surrender threatening, for the reverse case, slaughtering to the last man."