Page 28 at the top: "Overall Situation: Continued generally quiet in Serbia. Isolated attacks and sabotage especially in Bulgarian occupied territory. In Croatia organized rebel territory in East Bosnia broken up."
I shall dispense with reading the next paragraph, and proceed with the Activity Report for period between the 1st and 30th of June 1942:
10th June: "Overall situation: By and large unchanged quiet in Serbia. Small bands successfully fought. In Croatia energitic activity of rebels in West Bosnia and Italian occupied territory. Reinforced uprisings in new Italian territory around Laibach. Pacification of East Bosnia proceeds."
I shall omit a paragraph, and proceed on page 29, section I: "Overall Situation in Serbia and Bosnia: In Serbia by and large unchanged. Isolated attacks. In Croatia renewed invasion of insurgents from Italian territory into area west and south of Sarajevo repulsed. Situation aggravated in West Bosnia in the rear of the combat group through reinforcement and relief attempts of the rebels from the Italian's sector, especially around Bosnia Novi and Kostajnica. Good progress in attack against rebel group encircled in the KozaraPlanina, which is faced with complete disintegration."
The next activity report covering August, 1942: "In Serbia quiet. No noteworthy resistance in Kopaonik Mountains operation. Mihailovic movement extending further. Their first demands for harvest and railway sabotage. Penetration into legal units also proven. Goal: national uprising of the people, but this is not to be expected in foreseeable time. Several enemy planes fly over. In one case parachutists dropped on Roumanian border territory.
"Croatia: Raids of our troops north of the Save brought quiet. Surprise operation against Psunj Planina intended. Quiet in East Bosnia for the time being after destruction of bands SW of Sarajevo.
In West Bosni mopping up action of Samarica Mountains NW of Bos. Novi almost completed. No large enemy losses to be expected. Strong enemy pressure from zone III against the demarcation line SW of Samski Most-Bosnia Novi." That was page 29.
Now, on page 30 just a brief passage: "In the Italian-occupied area guerilla-bands being formed once more along the line of demarcation south of Sarajevo as far as the area around Livno as well as in the Grmec-mountains. Here apparently main assembly and reorganization center of the rebels. Italians fight with alternating success."
This finishes the presentation of evidence on this topic, to-wit: an effective occupation by the German troops. May I now proceed with the next topic, that is: Summary Courts-martial? The fact that Courts-Martial took place is shown by a number of prosecution documents, as well as other documents submitted previously in other contexts. May I, therefore, confine myself to just a few documents which are to be regarded as additions. They are in Document Book No. 2. Document 48, on page 33 to 35, to be Exhibit No. 24. I have just been told that in the English document book the pagination was omitted, apparently by mistake. It is document 48. The English pages are approximately the same as the German.
JUDGE CARTER: There is no pagination in the English edition. The document is here, however, and your exhibit number should be 23.
DR. MENZEL: Yes, I beg pardon. Exhibit 23. It is again an excerpt from a war diary dated February 1942. Page 34, Report from Commanding General Serbia to Wehrmacht. Commander Southeast, 19th February 1942. I shall read from 3-b: 11-7-21 Search Banja. "Burgomeister arrested and turned over to summary court martial on account of apparent protection of rebels."
The next page, that is 35, in the German: From Commanding General Serbiats Wehrmacht Commander Southeast, 20 February 1942:
"Co. 4, 721st Regiment searched the Ropocevo-Slatina-Cuberevac sector, Co. 5, 721st Regiment the village Bosnjana, and Company 11, 721st Regiment Cucuge. 13 suspects arrested and turned over to military court for investigation."
That finishes this document.
MR. RAPP: Your Honor, I beg pardon, but I am somewhat lost and I am asking possibly if Dr. Menzel can straighten me out. I followed his last statement, but the one he read previously to this I could not find in my English document book. I am wondering if Your Honor found it?
JUDGE CARTER: Yes, it is here.
MR. RAPP: It is?
JUDGE CARTER: I think you will find that the fly leaf to the exhibit is at the end of the document and that gets the pagination off.
MR. RAPP: Very well, Your Honor.
DR. MENZEL: That was Exhibit 23. May I now proceed with document 49 in the same document book? It follows 48 on pages 36 and 37. I hope the Tribunal will find although the English pagination is missing in this, too. This will be Exhibit No. 24. Excerpt from the war diary, March, 1942, on page 37, contains a File Note on the conference with Kosta Pecanac which took place on 18 March 1942. May I now read:
"Herr K.P. called it a great mistake that capital punishment is not inflicted for the possession of radio sets as is done for the possession of arms. Certain circles were again and again given new stimulation by broadcasts from London and Moscow. Citing several examples, Colonel K succeeded in convincing the other side of the contrary.
"Concerning jurisdiction, Herr K.P. was of the opinion that it would be much better to bring all captured Communists before the Cetnik court-martial of K.P. than before German courts.
His own judges are much more familiar with the prevailing conditions and would not let themselves be deceived by the Communists. For the German courts there would be the risk of being misled by the Communists etc." I omit the next sentence and just read the end: "All endeavors to establish a connection were frustrated up to now, since all people he had sent out for this purpose were captured on the way and killed by the Communists." That was Exhibit 24. The last document to be submitted, --
JUDGE CARTER: Before you take up that document we will take our morning recess.
(A recess was taken.)
THE MARSHAL: The Tribunal is again in session.
JUDGE CARTER: You may proceed, Dr. Menzel.
DR. MENZEL: (Defense Counsel for the defendant Kuntze): After haying concluded Exhibit #24, I would now like to present the last document dealing with court-martial procedure. This is document # 7 in Document Book 1 on page 12 and the exhibit number will be 25. It is an affidavit given by Dr. Alfred Gruen. He was army judge in the XIIth Army from the beginning of the war until August, 1942. The affiant states the following:
"During the time for which I was attached to the Staff of the Plenipotentiary of the Wehrmacht South East, it never came to my knowledge that partisans captured in the combat area were executed without a sentence being pronounced by a court martial or military court. Neither did I observe violations in this respect on my official journeys for the purpose of checking the activities of the military courts and court martials in Serbia; these journeys were ordered by the deputy plenipotentiary of the Wehrmacht Commander South East during the period of his command.
"I know that German prisoners were shot by partisans, and in many cases were most cruelly tormented to death."
This concludes Exhibit # 25.
MR. RAPP: May I see the original of that?
DR. MENZEL: This concludes Exhibit # 25.
I would now like to turn to a different subject matter. That will be the evacuation of the population. Here I am going to prove that these evacuations, if they took place at all, only took place for certain periods of time and only then when they were militarily necessary and in those areas where the prerequisites were given, like in the Samarica.
This becomes apparent from all documents and I would now like to present Document # 46. This is contained in Document Book 2 on page 30 of both the German and the English text. This document will be offered as Exhibit # 26. It is a strategic and tactical plan # 2, operation plan # 2 for combat group Western Bosnia. I would like to read from paragraphs 6c and d:
"In the area south of the Sana only strangers or those male persons suspected of being partisans or helpers are to be arrested and taken to collection camps.
"The return to their villages of women and children evacuated in the Kozara-Prosara action is intended for about 25 July."
The Kozara action is the only evacuation action which took place during General Kuntze's period of command. That men were allowed to return becomes apparent from other documents which I don't have to present here. This was Kuntze Exhibit 26 and I shall now deal with the chapter of welfare measures taken for the civilian population, medical care, etc.
In Document Book 2, the same document book, we have Document 56 on page 48 of both the German and the English text This document will be offered as Exhibit 27.
It is an affidavit by the Army physician, Walter Kittle, dated 23 September, 1947. The affiant makes the following statement:
Quite considerable fluctuations of the population took place in Serbia due to the unrest. Numerous Serbian refugees fled from the unrest in Bosnia, and returned again during lulls in the fighting. Of all the infectious diseases, typhus had always played a devastating role in Serbia. The danger that an epidemic would occur was great, As the means and resources of the Civil Government were insufficient, a so-called "medical cordon" was set up at the Drina by order of the 21th Army High Command, Army Physician, through the Plenipotentiary Commanding General in Serbia, Corps Physician, through which the numerous Serbian refugees received medical treatment, were freed from vermin, and also supplied with food and billets. The individual medical centers of the medical cordon were staffed partly with Serbian and partly with German physicians, while almost all drugs and dressings were supplied by the 12th Army High Command, Army Physician, through the Plenipotentiary Commander General's Corps Physician, as the personnel and material of the Civilian Government were insufficient.
By the above described measures it was prevented that the Serbian population on both sides of the Drina was decimated by epidemics, especially from typhus so widespread in the Southeast.
This brings me to the end of 27.
MR. RAPP: Your Honor, I object to the introduction of this particular affidavit into evidence on behalf of the defendant Kuntze because this affidavit does not show at all which period is covered. It merely refers to the 12th Army. The defendant List commanded the 12th Army; the defendant Kuntze commanded the 12th Army. In other words, it does not tie up in any way, anything which I believe the defense counsel is trying to establish.
The affiant does not say for whom he has given the affidavit. He does not mention any date or any period. It may be for List; it may be for Kuntze; it may be neither. I don't know.
DR. MENZEL: If the Tribunal please, may I state that this is quite clearly and obviously referring to the well-known medical cordon which on frequent occasions was the subject of this trial, and which was mentioned before in numerous documents. Therefore, it is quite established what is meant here, and what the period of time was.
The document is only submitted as supporting evidence. I do not believe that the question of the medical cordon is by any means an unknown or surprising one.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: The objection comes a little late. It will be overruled but we will give such consideration to it only as it is entitled to.
DR. MENZEL: That was Kuntze Exhibit 27, and for the same chapter.
There is one more document which I would like to present. That is contained in Document Book 1. It is Document No. 14, and the page number is 19. This document will be offered as Kuntze Exhibit 28. It is an affidavit given by Prinz zu Schleswig-Holstein-Gluecksburg, signed on 19 September 1947.
Prinz Holstein-Gluecksburg was ADC with the Chief of Staff of the then plenipotentiary Commanding General in Serbia in the winter 1941-42.
Paragraph 1 reads:
1. I have personally known General of the Engineers KUNTZE from the time I was in Belgrade whrre I served as aide-de-camp to the Chief of staff during the winter 1941/42. In February 1942 I was detailed to accompany General BADER on the occasion of General KUNTZE's journey to Abbazia. The tour lasted about 8 days and I had the opportunity to become more personally acquainted with General KUNTZE.
He was said by my superiors to be a sincere, fair-minded and brilliant officer. I had this confirmed when I became personally acquainted with him.
2. The purpose of the journey to Abbazia was to work out jointly with the Italians a plan to crush the centre of the resistance in the Serbian-Croatian border district, in particular south and south-east of Sarajewo. Frequent mention was made of the reprisal measures ordered by the German OKW. The higher authorities had ordered that for every murdered German 100 rebels or their assistants should be executed. General KUNTZE more than once declared that this number had seemed to him to be much too high and that at his instigation it was substantially reduced.
MR. RAPP: If Your Honors please, the last sentence read into the record by Dr. Menzel, and I quote merely for the record:
"General Kuntze more than once declared that this number had seemed to him to be much too high and that at his instigation it was substantially reduced."
That is a very important statement. Now the original of this affidavit has been handed to me, and I have inspected the original and I would like to ask the Court's indulgence to look themselves at the original and see that a word has been erased in the original. The word, "General Kuntze" have been superimposed on this erasure, between the two typewritten lines. There are no initials of the affiant there that he really meant General Kuntze, and I think in this particular respect, it is rather important. If the Tribunal pleases, I would like to hand the original to the bench for their own inspection.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: When Dr. Menzel completes his reading, that may be done. Is he through with it now?
DR. MENZEL: No, Your Honor, one more paragraph to go. There is a paragraph 3 to follow which deals with the medical cordon which was discussed before:
3. The medical cordon was set up in about February 1942 at the Drina to take over and supply the Serbs fleeing from Croatia. The senior medical officer, Major Dr. HAMMER, acting on orders from the Armed Forces Plenipotentiary, South-East area (army physician), was in charge of this institution. When General KUNTZE, some time afterwards, made an inspection tour in Serbia, he stressed the importance of this sanitary installation. Apart from me, General BADER and his chief, the then Colonel of the General Staff, von GEITNER, were present when General KUNTZE made this observation:
This brings me to the end of this document, and I would now like to briefly deal with Mr. Rapp's objection. The Court will have an opportunity to look at the original, and in my opinion it will undoubtedly be established that only General Kuntze can be meant here. In the document, the word, "he" which was originally written there, was replaced by the words, "General Kuntze" in order to make it more clear that even if it would have just read "he", only General Kuntze could be meant, but, of course, I make the document available for inspection.
(Tribunal examining document)
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: As I understand it, there was no objection to it, made by the Prosecution. They merely wanted the Court to make a personal inspection of the document.
Dr. Menzel do you know who made the change on the original?
DR. MENZEL: The change was made in any case before the signature was given. The typist made it who wrote out the draft, but I cannot give you the details at the moment. It is quite some time ago that the document was taken down.
I may point out that I myself certified the affidavit and that I took the oath. I had the word "he" written, but when he read the draft, before the signature was placed on the document by the witness, the witness himself, that is, the affiant himself, said that he would rather see the words, "General Kuntze" in there, in order to make it more clear, and to exclude that rather vague word, "he", and that is when I had the change effected. That is how it was at the time.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: Very well, you may continue with your next offering.
DR. MENZEL: That was Exhibit 28, which brings me to the end of this particular chapter. I shall now turn to a different matter, "Restoration of Serbian Economy", which will be substantiated by a number of other documents later, so that at the moment I shall only have to present two documents here which are both contained in Document Book 1. There is, first of all, Kuntze Document Book 18, which immediately follows the document just dealt with. That is page 20, Kuntze Document Book 1. This document will be offered as Kuntze Exhibit 29. It is an affidavit by Major General Juppe, dated 12 June, 1947. The affiant, as the document shows, was in 1942 and 1943 Commander of the 704th Infantry Division. He made the following statements:
MR. RAPP: Your Honors, I object to this affidavit. The affiant was in the area from September 1, 1942 to February 15, 1943. That was in the period that General Kuntze was not in the Southeast anymore, so anything the affiant may say, that has been done in connection with the Reconstruction of the economy could not be credited to General Kuntze, out of the affiant's testimony. He was not there any more.
DR. MENZEL: If the Tribunal please, I would like to make the following statement in this connection. The affidavit concerns the attitude of the German occupation forces towards Serbian Economy -
it is correct that the affiant was commander of the beforementioned Infantry Division as of 7 September 1942, that is after General Kuntze had left the area. However, the document is to show how generally the attitude of the occupation forces was towards the problem of the Serbian economy.
After all, it is not the case that this attitude changed suddenly, and that it became the exact opposite of the attitude shown before, and that everybody waited for General Kuntze to leave in order to then change their measures. These measures must have been started at an earlier period also.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: The objection will be sustained.
DR. MENZEL: I shall now turn to another document, Document No. 16. That is the following document on page 21 of Document Book 1. This document will be offered as Kuntze' Exhibit 30. I beg your pardon, Kuntze' Exhibit 29.
It is an affidavit executed by Major Pemsel. His name is already known to this Court. He was Chief of Staff with the Commanding General in Serbia until the 6 of December, 1941. The affidavit is dated 17 July, 1947, and the contents are as follows:
A number of measures were taken by the Staff of the High Command with a view to the reconstruction of the Serbian economy and the provisioning of the Serbian population. Of the relatively weak force of combat-troops, considerable numbers were assigned to the maintenance of the Railway- and signal-networks, pits and mines were protected against sabotage by German, Russian and Serbian guard-units and much was done to safeguard the transport of food-supplies and coal.
That was document No. 29, and I shall now turn to the Chapter, "Terror by the Insurgents". I shall start this with Document No. 2, in Document Book 1. It is page 3 of that document book. The document will be offered as Kuntze Exhibit 30. It is a brief affidavit by Major General Pemsel. He was Chief of Staff with the Commanding General in Serbia until December, 1941. He makes the following statement:
"Partisans plundered, assassinated residents, burned and otherwise destroyed farms and villages".
Then I shall deal with Document 4 in the same Document Book, pages 6 & 7 in both the German and English text. This will be offered as Kuntze Exhibit 31. It is an affidavit given by Major General Rudolf Schubert, dated 4 September 1947. The witness makes the following statement:
"From October 1939 until March 1942 I was signal leader with the AOK 12."
I shall continue one line below that:
"With the appointment of the Plenipotentiary Commanding General in Serbia for fighting the partisans, a section of the Army Signal Regiment 521 under my direction was subordinated to him."
I shall omit the balance of this paragraph, and start with the next paragraph:
"A supply column of this section of the Signal Regiment was ambushed by the Partisans and shot up. I cannot make an exact statement as to the strength of this column there were approximately 40 to 50 men under Captain Lehr, two cars and 5 or 6 trucks. Only one truck managed to escape back to report the attack."
I continue now, three lines below that:
The result of the inquiry was:
1. 22 men, amongst them Captain Lehr and a lieutenant, were found shot dead in a narrow place away from the road.
2. Several bodies were found on the road, where they had died fighting.
3. One man was found seriously injured.
4. Several men were missing.
The vehicles were burnt.
The wounded man made the following statements:
The partisans herded the prisoners, some of whom were wounded, away from the road. Four (?) men who were able to speak Czech or Polish were taken out and marched off as prisoners. The remaining prisoners were shot dead with machine guns, and those who were not dead immediately, were shot in the head at close range.
The wounded man himself who had already been seriously injured in the fight, was again hit several times by machine gun fire. He lost consciousness, was left lying as dead, and was later able to drag himself to the road where he was found. The killed prisoners all showed several gunshot wounds, some of them had been shot in the head at close range. Of the men mentioned in No. 4 two were able to escape much later and returned to their regiments. They corroborated the statement of the wounded man about the herding together of the prisoners and the selection of Czech and Polish speaking men.
As they were taken away they heard the machine gun fire and the screams of the victims. Strength of the partisan group: approximately 200 men in peasant clothes. Now there is one addition made by affiant, that surprise attack took place on the 4th of October -- on the 2nd of October, 1941.
MR. RAPP: In reference to the last paragraph of the affiant that the attack took place on the 2nd of October, 1941, I do not see any relation of these to the defendant Kuntze. I object therefore to the admission of this affidavit.
It is again like the previous one, and has no relation to the defendant. At that time he was not in charge.
DR. MENZEL: I may, in this connection point out that the document is being submitted in order to show the general method of warfare used by the partisans. In my opinion, the Defense must have the right to give evidence for this method of fighting, dating from the whole period of time. After all, this method of fighting did not suddenly change when General Kuntze came to the Balkans, or left the Balkans.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: It appears that this event took place immediately prior to the time that General Kuntze took over in the Southeast. We think the information that he gained of it may have influenced his action, and may have had something to do with his conduct in the Balkans.
The objection will be overruled.
DR. MENZEL: I shall now deal with a different chapter in my presentation of evidence, and that is the relationship between the Armed Forces Commander Southeast and the Military Administration under Thurner.
In this connection I would like to present Kuntze Document No. 8, which is also contained in Document Book 1, on page 13 of both the German and the English text. This is an affidavit by the previously mentioned Major General Pemsel, who makes the following statement:
The Plenipotentiary Commanding General in Serbia had in name complete authority in the military and administrative spheres. But in practice matters wore as follows: The Military-(Civil-) Administration (Thurner), which worked under the Staff of the Military Plenipotentiary, never considered itself subordinated, as far as I know received directives from Himmler, and reported to the latter. Similar relations existed between the Plenipotentiary for Economy and Goering.
The exhibit number of this document will be Kuntze 32.
Now I shall deal with General Kuntze's relationship to the OKW. In this connection I would like to refer to three documents contained in Document Book 1, Documents 11, 12 and 13. They are on pages 16, 17 and 18 of Kuntze' Document Book 1.
The first Document, document 11, on page 16, will be offered as Kuntze Exhibit 33. It is an excerpt from a letter which General Foertsch wrote to his wife at the time. These documents are in my opinion of particular importance because they do not date from the present time, but they were written immediately under the impression of the events of the time.
It is a letter dated 15 March 1942.
MR. RAPP: Your Honors, I object to the introduction of his into evidence. I believe a very long time ago we went over this famous Mrs. Foertsch's letter once before. Here again we are being furnished merely an excerpt. I have never seen the total letter, and I believe at that time the Court ordered that if anything of this kind was to be used, the entire letter was to be made available to the Prosecution. As it is now, I only have the excerpt.
DR. MENZEL: In this connection, I would like to point out that this letter has already been introduced by my colleague, Dr. Rauschenbach, and it is Foertsch Exhibit 26 contained in Foertsch Document Book 2, on page 31 of both the German and the English text of that document book.
I do not know whether under these circumstances, the objection will be maintained.
MR. RAPP: If it has already been introduced, which I will check in a minute, I do not see why it should be introduced under an entirely new number once again. It merely would confuse the issue.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: I assume that it is being introduced again on the theory that by its introduction by General Foertsch, it is not in evidence as to the defendant, General Kuntze.
MR. RAPP: I appreciate that, Your Honor. I am suggesting, in the event that it has been introduced on behalf of General Foertsch that we possibly could follow the same exhibit number rather than giving this a new exhibit number, being the same exhibit. In fact, that was actually what I had reference too Your Honor.
PRESIDING JUDGE CARTER: I do not think it will confuse the record very much to occasionally permit these exhibits to be offered twice as against different defendants.
The objection will be overruled.
DR. MENZEL: I may add that I consider this document particularly important because although it is a letter by General Foertsch, it deals in many points with General Kuntze.
I would only like to read a few lines:
"Kuntze returned yesterday."
One sentence later on:
"Rather disappointed in service matters, was ordered to the OKW where they gave him short shrift. Several days travelling for the sake of 1½ hours conference. Result: Joint German-Italian measures will shortly be undertaken in Croatia."
Then about one sentence further down:
"General impression: Our worries are by no means appreciated. 'It is the leadership which is to blame if we cannot cope with the rebels, in other words, we are responsible." "Thus Jodl."
And one sentence further down:
"The mere fact alone that no troops will be taken from us, may be considered a success. Motto: Never annoy the Italians."
This was Kuntze Exhibit 33.
Now follows the next letter on the next page, Exhibit 34, which is in a letter dated 8 May 1942:
"This night I returned to Belgrade from a three-day "control"-tour with WARLIMONT: at 10:30 I proceed to S.
It was, in fact an inspection tour ordered by the OKW to determine who or what is responsible for the "nasty mess" in the South-East area. WARLIMONT, who is most reasonable, seemed deeply impressed by what he saw, he recognized as he mentioned again and again, that everything "humanly possible" is being done here, he recognized the prejudices as such and will report accordingly. How far he will be able to influence KEITEL, and about all JODL, who is the man behind the scenes, and almost God-like, I do not know. We are being reproached for not being drastic enough, meddling unnecessarily with the Italians, not giving "precise" reports etc."
While the last exhibits show the lack of success of General Kuntze's representations with the OKW, this document shows also the OKW's attitude towards General Kuntze. There is one more sentence which I will have to read from this document which follows immediately and reads:
"I will not return. He has been commissioned with a new task, again with Greiffenberg as Chief, Kintze is out of favor. I anticipate an early change."
That was Kuntze Exhibit 34. Now follows the next letter which is Kuntze Document No. 13 and this will become Kuntze Exhibit No. 35. It is again a letter written by General Foertsch and addressed to his wife. It is dated 17 May 1942. I am only reading the first sentence of this document:
"I felt annoyed about the damned way Keitel and Jodl deigned to deal with us, that is to say, with Kuntze, that they should regard the people in Serbia as idiotic idlers and to behave like demi-gods."
That was Kuntze Exhibit 35.
Now, I would like to turn to the subject of Greece. I shall start with Document No. 33. That is contained in Kuntze Document Book II on pages 1 to 4. This document will be offered as Kuntze Exhibit 36. This is a situation report which is to show the relations existing between the civilian population and the occupation forces.
Some other facts become apparent also from this document; for instance, that court martial procedures were carried out and that the bands at that time were regarded as robber bands, et cetera.
The situation report, No. 4, is dated 28 October 1941. I would like to read now from paragraph 2c:
"Thus the inhabitants of the village Efkarpia presented on 21 October a memorandum to the Pioneer Batl. 220, in which gratitude is expressed to the German military authorities for the protection of the peaceful population against the bandits, promising their participation in the fight against them. At the same time, one bandit each was captured and handed over to the Greek police by the inhabitants of the villages Efkarpia and Kastri; the police delivered them to the Pioneer Batl. 220. The Pioneer Batl. conducted on 23 October a public Summary Court trial in the course of which one of the arrested was condemned to death and shot subsequently, whereas the second defendant, as he did not belong to the bandits, was acquitted."
I shall omit the next sentence and start reading again the next but one sentence:
"The mood of the population is said to be so filled with hatred against the bandits that even the members of their families refuse to have anything to do with them. This attitude is confirmed by the above mentioned "memorandum" and by the arrest of two suspected men.