MR. FENSTERMACHER: Will the Court Interpreter read again from that sub-paragraph "F" of the original document exactly as it should be translated?
MR. HILDESHEIMER (Court German-English Interpreter): "As a reprisal measure for the murder of German soldiers, the burning of villages and execution or members of the male population has been ordered." That is how it should read. That would be the literal translation, Sir.
DR. LATERNSER: Thank you.
JUDGE CARTER: May I ask, before the original is taken away, if the English shows this was signed by the 67th Corps? Is that correct?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: I believe that is again a typographical error, but again we might ascertain the answer to that from the original document.
MR. HILDESHEIMER (Court German-English Interpreter): It says 67th Corps in the English text.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: What does it say in the original?
MR. HILDESHEIMER (Court German-English Interpreter): In the original German text it says 68th AK.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Might I ask again ---I believe in translating sub-paragraph "F" you gave an alternative translation -- something to the effect of "members of the male population." Will you read it again -sub-paragraph "F"?
MR. HILDESHEIMER (Court German-English Interpreter): As it is or or as it should read?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: As it should read from your translation of the original text.
MR. HILDESHEIMER (Court German-English Interpreter): "As reprisal measure for the murder of German soldiers the burning of villages and the execution of members of the male population has been ordered."
THE PRESIDENT: Does that cover the situation, Dr. Laternser?
DR. LATERNSER: Yes, Your Honor.
THE PRESIDENT: You may proceed.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: We turn next to Page 68 of the English, page 56 of the German, continuing with the activity reports of the 68th Corps, the Daily Report for the 14th of October 1943: "The Prefect of Kalamata was murdered in the train at Asprochoma (3km West Northwest of Kalamata). Martial law proclaimed at Kalamata, 50 hostages arrested." Continuing with the Daily Report for the 25th of October 1943: "Enemy losses for the period 18 October - 24 October: Dead, 24: Captured: 1 machine gun, 47 rifles..." It is at the bottom of Page 78 of the English, Page 56 of the German, Daily Report for the 25th of October 1943: "Enemy losses for the period 18 October - 24 October: Dead: 24; Captured: 1 machine gun, 47 rifles, 13 pistols, 3000 rounds Infantry ammunition, 100 Italian handgrenades. Taken prisoner: 31 Greeks, 10 Italians."
MR. HILDESHEIMER: I'm afraid there's a mistake, Sir, in the English Document Book -- a mistake in the translation.
THE PRESIDENT: The translator will make such corrections as he deems advisable.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Dr. Laternser has informed me that the sentences I have been reading are not in the German Document Book. Perhaps we could hand again the original document to the Court Interpreters and have them read it into the record. This, I believe, is on page 12 of the original document -- the Daily Report for the 25th of October 1943.
MR. HILDESHEIMER: Are you reading from sub-paragraph "D", please? Could you please read the English text again?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Ic Daily Report for 25 October 1943, II), d), Enemy Losses for the period 18 October - 24 October: Dead: 24, Captured: 1 machine gun, 47 rifles, 13 pistols, 3000 rounds Infantry ammunition, 100 Italian handgrenades. Taken prisoner: 31 Greeks, 10 Italians. During mopping up operations at Kalamata, Sparta, Patras, and Megalopolis a total of 3880 band suspects and hostages arrested."
Daily Report for the 26th of October 1943.....
THE PRESIDENT: Pardon me. I understood the Translator wished to make some correction. Is that correct?
MR. HILDESHEIMER: I only wanted to say, Your Honor, that this is not contained in our German Document Book.
THE PRESIDENT: Very well; you may proceed.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Daily Report for the 26th of October 1943: "During mopping up operation in Githion and Tripolis several suspects and hostages arrested." And then, dropping down to the Daily Report for 6 November 1943, at the bottom of Page 79 in the English, Page 57 in the German, "During retaliation measures(see attach 8 km Northwest of Argos, Ic-Daily Report for 5 November 1943) No contact with the enemy. Villages were evacuated by bandits and the bulk of the population. Hostages taken." Continuing with the Daily Report for the 24th of November 1943, Page 80 of the English, Page 57 of the German, "On 23 November at 1445 hours a band attacked a single truck on the road Corinth-Patras, 8 km Southeast of Aegion. 1st Lt. Roewer was killed, Lt. von Bothmer was wounded, the driver is missing. The Division Commander had ordered the public execution of 20 Communist leaders in Patras on 24 November as reprisal measure." Daily Report for the 12th of December 1943: "As reprisal measure for shooting German soldiers (Ic Daily Report for 10 December) 9 villages Northeast of Kalavrita were destroyed, and 142 men shot." This report, as are all others in the series, is signed by the Ic or Intelligence Officer of the 68th Corps, commanded, at this time, by the Defendant Felmy. Continuing with the Daily Report for the 31st of December 1943: "Enemy Losses during December: Prisoners: 5 American Flyers, 159 bandits, Dead: 918 (of this 839 from reprisal measures), Wounded: 11 (in addition an estimated 100)." Turning now to the bottom of Page 82 of the English, Page 59 of the German, the Ic Daily Report for 13th of December 1943: "Operation Kalavrita concluded without further contact with the enemy. A few of the corpses of the German soldiers shot were found." Next, the daily Report for the 14th of December 1943: "70 corpses of the German soldiers murdered were brought in. As further reprisal measure 3 villages were burned down, Kalavrita completely destroyed, 511 male inhabitants shot." Daily Report for the 15th of December 1943: "During the night 13/14th the telephone not work at the road Tripolis-Sparta, 18 km South of Tripolis, as well as three bridges, was destroyed.
On 14 December 1 reinforced Engineer Platoon and 50 hostages were employed on repair work. In the area of Kalavrita as further reprisal measure 1 village and 2 monasteries were destroyed." Continuing with the Daily Report for the 16th of December 1943: "Operation Kalavrita: 14 December Mazeika (11 km Southeast of Kalavrita) and Dara (12 km Southeast of Mazeika) 18 houses destroyed, 35 Communists arrested." Daily Report for 17th of December 1943: "During the night 15/16 December bridge 1 km North of Nanthirea (10 km South of Tripolis) was blasted. As reprisal measure Mant*irea was burned down. As reprisal measure for 1 German soldier shot 30 Communist were shot in Tripolis." This report, as are all others, is signed "LXVIIIth Corps, Ic." I think we need not read the remainder of the document into the record at this time. Turning next to Page 86 of the English, Page 62 of the German Document Book, is Document No. NOKW-1246, which becomes Prosecution's Exhibit No. 472. This document is a series of extracts form the War Diary of the 68th Corps, covering the period 1 July to 31st December 1943, during which period the Defendant Felmy was in command of the 68th Army Corps. The first page of the War Diary is signed by the Defendant Felmy, as "General of Air Force."
WAR DIARY NO. 3 Corps Headquarters LXVIII Army Corps Started 1 July 1943 Concluded 31 Dec.
1943.
LXVIII Army Corps was subordinate from 1 July 1943 to 27 July 1943 to the High Command Army Group E from 28 July 1943 to 9 Sept 1943 to the 11th Italian Army from 9 Sept.
1943 to 4 Oct. 1943 to Army Group Southern Greece from 5 Oct.
1943 to 31 Dec. 1943 to the High Command Army Group E The War Diary was kept from 1 July 1943 to 31 Dec.
1943 by Captain Sinapius Turning to Page 87 of the English, Page 62 of the German, the entry in the 68th Army Corps War Diary for the 23rd of August 1943:
"As reprisal measure of band attacks on 22 Aug. The village of Tropaa and Chora are burned down. . . .
24 Aug 43 The reprisal measures of the German Town Commandant in Argos for the excesses of civilians on 22 Aug. are being systematically sabotaged by the commander of the Italian Sector Argolide. He is attempting to have the hostages released and to cancel the curfew ordered by the German Garrision Command. In order that the reputation of the German Wehrmacht may no longer be in danger, the Commander of the 1st Panzer Division requests the subordination of the Italian Sector Argolide to the 1st Panzer Division. After conference with the chief of the German General Staff with the Italian 11th Army, this subordination is ordered effective 25 August 00:00 Hours.
There of the assumed culprits are shot to death. . . . 25 Aug 43 . . . . . . . .
Fighting between Nationalists and Communist Bands in the areas of Pigadia (18 kilometers East Southeast Kalamata) and Diraklion (18 kilometers Northeast of Kalamata).
30 Aug 43 In the vicinity of Skupi 15 Km east of Liwki one of our own patrols encountered bandits in a skirmish. The Locality was burned down. Operation Chionistra: Group A reaches area, 10 kilometers West of Kalawrita. A village whose inhabitants seem suspect is being burned down.
JUDGE CARTER: Might I inquire against what defendant these orders in August are offered?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: They're offered against the Defendant Felmy, Your Honor, as he was in command in August, at that time.
JUDGE CARTER: Does a previous statement show that he was not?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Which statement is that, Your Honor?
JUDGE CARTER: At the beginning of this exhibit.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: You mean from 1 July 1943 to the 27th of July 1943, to the High Command, Army Group E, or perhaps you refer to the statement from 28 July 1943 to 9 September 1943, the 11th Italian Army. Is that the statement you refer to, Your Honor?
JUDGE CARTER: Yes, it is.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: That simply means that the Corps itself was subordinate to the 11th Italian Army, but the Corps was commanded during that period by the Defendant Felmy, even though the Corps itself was subordinate to the High Headquarters.
JUDGE CARTER: We had a statement here yesterday or the day before to the effect that the Defendant Felmy didn't arrive until September 9th, and this would seem not to correspond with that.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: I believe Your Honor is referring to a statement of Dr. Sauter, which he made, as a matter of fact, to the effect that the defendant Lanz arrived as Commander of the 22nd Army Corps on the 9th of September 1943 in the Epiros section of Greece; and we are now concerned with the Defendant Felmy, who was Commander of the 68th Army Corps, and I believe there is no issue of fact as to when he took over, in that statement.
JUDGE CARTER: I believe you're correct in that statement, that I did have the Defendant Lanz confused with the Defendant Felmy.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: We are turning next to the bottom of Page 89 of the English, Page 64 of the German, the entry in the War Diary of the 68th Army Corps for the 26th of November 1943: "Peloponnesus: As reprisal measure for the band attack (32 kilometers South of Tripolis) 100 Communist are shot to death at the locality of the incident." Next, on page 90 of the English, page 64 of the German, the entry from the War Diary for the 4th of December 1943: "Peloponnesus: In Aighion, 50 Hostages shot to death as reprisal measure for attack on truck on 2 December." Continuing with the entry in the War Diary of the 68th Army Corps, the entry for the 5th of December 1943:
Peloponnesus: 50 hostages hanged at the railroad station of Andritsa as reprisal measure for attack on 1 December." For 7 December 1943: "Peloponnesus: 25 hostages shot to death in Gythion as reprisal measure for attack by bandits on 3 December West of Gythion." The entry for the 8th of December 1943. If Your Honors will bear in mind this particular date, 8 December 1943, and the events with which it is concerned:
Peloponnesus:
Operation "Kalawrita": The Combat groups advanced concentrically on Kalawrita (targets of the day about 10 kilometers around Kalawrita. According to statements of 2 men who escaped from Fifth Company of the 749th Jaeger Regiment which had been destroyed near Kalawrita on 19 Oct, the captured company commander Captain Schober and 78 men are alleged to have been shot on 7 Dec. in the mountains East of Kalawrita. To prevent the bands from escaping toward the East, the 3rd Battalion of the 22nd Luftwaffe Jaeger Regiment of Corinth is committed for the area, 25 kilometers Southeast of Kalawrita.
"9 Dec 43 Peloponnesus:
Combat group, Lt. Colonel Wolffinger reaches Kalawrita without contact with the enemy. Combat group Captain (Cav.) thrusting ahead to the West up to Tripotamia."
We call your Honors' attention to the statement that Lt. Colonel Wolffinger reached Kalavrita without contact with the enemy. Now reading:
"10 Dec 43 Peloponnesus:
Operating"Kalawrita" a patrol of platoon strength of the reinforced company of the 965th Fortress Regiment makes contact with the enemy (10 kilometers South of Liwia. Own losses: 10 dead, 11 wounded. Continued march of combat group Lt. Colonel Wolffinger to Tripotamia without contact with the enemy.
11 Dec 43 Peloponnesus:
Operation "Kalawrita" In reprisal for the 78 murdered soldiers of the 5th Company of the 749th Jaeger Regiment, 9 villages in the area of "Kalawrita" destroyed up to now, 142 members of the male village population shot to death."
Continuing with the entries in the War Dairy of the LXVIII Army Corps, the entry for the:
"13 Dec 43 Peloponnesus:
Operation "Kalawrita" concluded without any notable success except for the continuation of reprisal measures. It again has been demonstrated that an insufficiently mobile Jaeger Regiment in the mountains is insufficient for the execution of a large scale operation (encirclement of bands)."
Another entry for the:
"13 Dec 43 Peloponnesus:
During the course of additional reprisal measures Kalawrita entirely destroyed three more villages burned down and 511 male inhabitants shot to death.
70 corpses of the murdered soldiers of the 5th Company of the 749th Regiment were found in Masi (10 kilometers Southeast of Kalawrita. . .
"14, Dec 43 Peloponnesus:
During the continuation of the reprisal measures in the area of Kalawrita, Mazeika and 2 Monasteries are destroyed. The combat groups are marching back to their garrisons. During the course of the reprisal measures a total of 24 villages and 3 monasteries were destroyed, 696 Greeks shot to death.
22 Dec 43 Peloponnesus:
Bandits are continuously making sabotage attempts on the telephone line Tripolis - Sparta. 13 Greeks are shot to death during a mopping up operation carried out against this."
The final page of the War Diary of the LXVIII Army Corps, this particular War Diary concludes on the 31st of December, 1943, is signed by the defendant Felmy, the Commander of the Corps.
THE PRESIDENT: Pardon me, does that have his signature or is it a typed signature?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: As I recall, it is his signature written out in hand, Your Honor. Perhaps if we had the original exhibit, I could refresh my recollection. (Showed document to the Tribunal.)
The next document is NOKW -1029; it is a map which is too large for inclusion in the document book. We might hand your Honors three copies at this time. Yesterday afternoon at four thirty I distributed several copies to the defense counsel. I wonder if all of them have copies?
JUDGE BURKE: What is the document number, and what is the Exhibit number, if you please?
MR. FENSTERMACHER: The document number is NOKW-1029: which I becomes prosecution Exhibit No. 473. It is a map which is taken from the files of the LXVIII Army Corps. I would like to ask the court interpreters to read into the record the legend which appears at the bottom of the map.
MR. HILDESHEIMER: "Enterprise, Kalavrita, of the 5th December 1943 to 13 December 1943. X marks destroyed villages." Correction: instead of "enterprise," "operation" and the last is "X marks destroyed villages."
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Will the court interpreter look at the top half? There is a plus sign and a word "Fundort." I wonder if he would translate that legend.
MR. HILDESHEIMER: "Place of finding of the murdered German soldiers."
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Will you read the date also, please?
MR. HILDESHEIMER: "8 December."
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Your Honors will note the number of "X's" as they appear on the map, according to the map "X" equals destroyed villages. Your Honors may count them for yourselves. I counted 35 separate crosses. Your Honors will also note in the top half portion of the map about in the middle around a group of about ten crosses, the name of the town Kalavrita and above the town of Kalavrita the name Krunini. I hesitate to pronounce the names of the other villages but I think your Honors might note them. The witness which we shall put on from Lalavrita will, I believe, have occasion to refer to several of these names.
Turn next to page 94 of the English, page 66 of the German document book, NOKW-1257, which becomes prosecution Exhibit 474, this document consists of activities reports of the 117 Jaeger Division for the period 1 November to 30 November 1943. I beg your pardon, the whole exhibit concerns activities reports of the 117 Jaeger Division covering the period 5 November 1943 to 16 January 1944, during which period of time the division was subordinate to the LXVIII Corps, commanded during the entire period by the defendant Felmy.
The first activity report is:
"117th Jaeger Division from 1 November to 30 November 1943. 5.11. 4.) Reprisal action for bandit attack on the 2nd Battery of the 1st Battalion of anti-aircraft Regiment No. 6 near Nawrojianneika on 4.11:
"Village of Bermbati burned down. 120 hostages arrested in Limanaes.
"5.) Up to now the execution of effective reprisal measures for the partisan attacks, which have increased lately, has come to naught because the 1042 Administrative Sub-area Headquarters claimed, on the basis of a decree of Military Commander Greece."
If I may insert a comment there, the Military Commander Greece at that time was the defendant Speidel.
"The authority for the execution of such measures but it does not have any forces available to carry them out. After long drawn out negotiations 1042 Administrative Sub-area Headquarters today was persuaded to transfer to the division their obligations and duties regarding the reprisal measures.
6.11
2.) On 5.11 about 20:00 hours bandit attack (about 70 men) on German freight train, 17 kilometer West of Ajion. Own losses: 2 dead, 1 seriously wounded, 2 missing. Reinforced company left immediately but could not establish (location of) enemy. Negotiator transmits ultimatum to bands to return the missing men by 15 November. They were informed that otherwise severest measures would be taken.
4.) In reprisal for bandit attack near Isari on 27 Oct., 18 Communists shot dead in Tripoli."
Continuing with the entry in the activity report for the 24th of November, 1943:
"As preliminary reprisal measures for bandit attack near Nikoleika, 20 Communist Leaders in Patras shot dead.
3.12 The 2nd Battalion of the 737th Jaeger Regiment started operation "Andritsa to mop up the area around Andritsa and to seize hostages.
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For the attack on 2 Dec. 43, 10 kilometers Last of Ajion in Ajion 50 hostages were shot dead.
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7.12 As reprisal measure for the bandit attack on the road Jithion Areopolis, 25 hostages shot dead in Jithion.
. . . . . . . . .
8 Dec. 43 cont'd.:
Combat Group Gnass occupies Masi (7 kilometers Northeast of Mazeika) by surprise attack with elements of combat strength (reinforced group Kockert) from Mazeika, in order to liberate the 78 German prisoners. Excepting some men who escaped, the prisoners were murdered in the mountains northeast of Nasi on 7 Dec. The immediate reprisal measure ordered was the shooting of the male population and burning down of the villages. Reprisal measures in the Roji and Kerpini were carried out by combat group Ebersberg. . . . . .
13.12 Operation "Kalawrita":The valley echelon of combat Group Woelfinger reaches Vissoka without contacting the enemy.
Villages which were combed through were evacuated by the civilian population.
Kalawrita was destroyed entirely as bandit shelter and collecting point for German prisoners. 511 male inhabitants shot dead.
. . . . . .
Target of the day Dara (12 kilometers Southeast Mazeika). In the course of reprisal measures, 3 villages burned down.
16.12 Operation "Steiglitz":As reprisal measure for the shooting of one German Soldier 30 Communists shot dead in Tripoli".This is the situation of the LXVII Corps Headquarters:
"Estimates of the situation to LXVIII Corps Headquarters. Divisional Staff Hq., 23 January 1944, (signed) von Le Suire, Major General and Divisional Cdr."
Continuing on page 97 of the English, 68 of the German, another activity report of the 117th Jaeger Division, dated:
"Divisional Staff Hq, 19 January 1944.
"Concluding and Experience Report "Operation 'Kalawrita' "The assembly of Combat Group Gnass for operation 'Kalawrita' proceeded according to plan.
Jumping off point for Jaeger Regiment 749 was the billet in Patras and Ajion. The 5th of December 1943" -- and Your Honors will recall that date on the map which was submitted in the preceding exhibit -- "was the X day of the operation. Apart from a skirmish lasting some time of the 116th Artillery Battalion near Pankrati, no fighting worth mentioning took place during the entire operation. Since the enemy withdrew towards the east and northeast from the first day of the operation, the 22nd Luftwaffe Jaeger Regiment was ordered on 7 December 43 to prevent the bands from breaking through by setting up blocks along the plains of Feneos (Operation Steiglitz). The 965th Fortress Infantry Regiment was ordered on 8 December 43 to block the line Demuta-Lala-Duka with a reinforced company in order to prevent withdrawal to the southwest. (Operation Bueffel).
DR. LATERNSER: Your Honor, I would like the translation to be examined and tested. On page 97 of the English document book, page 68 of the German document book, I would ask for a retranslation of the sentence - I quote from the German document book: "Bis auf ein laengeres Feuergefecht der Aufklaerungsabteilung 116 bei Paukvati fanden waehrend des ganzen Unternehmens keine groesseren Kampfhandlungen statt." That is the end of my quotation. I would like this sentence retranslated.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Would Major Hatfield pass Exhibit 474 to the court interpreters, please? I believe the portion of the document to which Dr. Laternser refers is on page 11 of the original document.
MR. HILDESHEIMER: "Apart from--
THE PRESIDENT: Pardon me, will you give the line that you are reading?
MR. HILDESHEIMER: It is on page 97 of the English document book and it is under the caption "Concluding and Experience Report Operation Kalavrita, Scale 1:100,000." It is line four; it is line five in the original.
"Apart from a skirmish lasting some time of the 116th Artillery Battalion near Pankrati, no major operations took -- major fighting took place during the entire operation." It is suggested that "116th Artillery Battalion" should be translated "116th Reconnaissance Battalion" and it would read then:
"Apart from a skirmish lasting some time of the 116th Reconnaissance Battalion near Pankrati, no larger fighting took place during the entire operation."
THE PRESIDENT: Does that cover the situation, Dr. Laternser?
DR. LATERNSER: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: You may proceed.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Continuing on page 97 of the English, page 68 of the German, would be the report of the 117th Jaeger Division regarding Operation Kalavrita:
"In reprisal for the murder of 75 prisoners of Company Schober, the shooting of the male population and the burning down of all villages in the area of the operation was ordered.
"On 14 December 1943 the operation was concluded and the units returned to their billets.
"1) Enemy losses: 17 dead, several wounded.
"2) Own Losses: 13 dead, 12 wounded.
"3) Reprisal Measures:. The following villages were destroyed: Roji, Kerpini, Railway Station Kerpini, Ano Sachlaru, Kato Sachlart, Ssuwardo, Wrachni, Kalawrita, Monastery of Meg-Spilaron, Monastery of Lawras, Aj. Kiria, Awles, Wissoka, Fteri, Klapatsuna, Pirgaki, Wallitsa, Mellissia, Monastery of Omblu, Laponangos, Masi, Mazeika, Pangrati, Worochowa, Derweni, Waltos, Planeru, settlement (four kilometers west Mazeika). 696 Greeks were shot dead.
"5) Attitude of the Civilian Population: A large part of the civilian population had fled apparently out of fear of seizure as hostages. Those remaining in the villages were mostly old men. The remaining population tried to prove that they had nothing to do with the bands by exaggerated and submissive politeness and by proclaiming their sympathy."
Turning next to page 99 of the English, page 70 of the German, Document OKW-1555 becomes Prosecution Exhibit 475. This document is a series of daily reports of OKH Army Headquarters in Berlin. First "Daily Report West 17 November 1943" under the section of the reports with which we are concerned:
"III) Balkans "1) Army Group E:"a) Islands:
The enemy garrison of Lero surrendered with 200 English officers and 3000 men and 350 Italian officers and 5000 men (elements of the 'Regina' Division).
"b) Mainland:
"LXVIII Infantry Corps: Continued communist intrigues in Athens.
"Administrative Area Headquarters 395: In the course of local mopping up north of Volos, 53 bandits were captured. Twenty communists have been shot to death in reprisal for attacks carried out lately in the area of Katerini."
The report is signed, as are all others in the series, "Heusinger". I beg your pardon: "Per (signed) Heusinger. (signature) Frh. v. Tiesenhausen."
Page 100 of the English, Daily Report for the 29th of November 1943:
"Daily Report West 29 November 1943.
"III) Balkans "1) Army Group E:"b) Mainland:
"LXVIII Army Corps: In reprisal for a band attack on the road Tripolis-Sparta, 100 hostages were shot to death at the locality of the incident. In the course of a search of Corinth numerous hostages were seized and weapons and propaganda material were secured."
The OKH report for the 1st of December 1943, that section of the report dealing with activities of the XXII Mountain Corps, which at this time was under the command of the defendant Lanz:
"During reprisal operation against bands in the area of Korca a village was taken in the face of resistance, all men capable of bearing arms were shot to death and the village destroyed."
Continuing with the OKH daily report for the 5th of December 1943:
"Balkans "Army Group E:"Mainland:
"LXVIII Army Corps: 50 hostages were shot to death in Aighion."
OKH report for the 12th of December 1943, under the section of the report dealing with the LXVIII Army Corps:
"No enemy contact during continuation of operation Kalavrita. As a reprisal measure nine villages were destroyed and 142 male inhabitants shot to death."
OKH report for the 15th of December 1943, at the bottom of page 103 of the English, 73 of the German:
"In the course of the continuation of the reprisal action in the area of Kalavrita one additional village and two monasteries were destroyed, among them Kalavrita. Altogether more than 500 men were shot to death. The bodies of 100 German soldiers were found who had been shot to death."
Continuing with the OKH report for the 17th of December 1943:
"Balkans "Army Group E:"Mainland:
"LXVIII Army Corps: In reprisal for blasting of bridge and murder of a German soldier in the area of Tripoli, one band village was destroyed and 30 communists shot to death.
"XXII Mountain Corps: In reprisal for the attack on trucks as reported yesterday three band villages were destroyed, north of Agrinion."
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XXII Mountain Corps:
"Seepferd" will be continued. Band losses up to now: 107 dead, 34 prisoners, 265 suspects arrested. In addition to weapons, 15 English parachutes and two printing presses with voluminous propaganda material was taken in booty. Own losses: 5 dead.
In the area of Volos 25 bandits were shot to death in reprisal.
DR. SCHMIDT: Your Honor, I have to state that Volos was not within the field of activity of this Regiment of the XXII Mountain Corps.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: Will you repeat the remark please.
INTERPRETOR HILDESHIEMER: I have to state that this area which is concerned here is not within the field of activities of the XXII Mountain Corps.
THE PRESIDENT: It appears that this would be a defensive matter which could be shown when opportunity is given to the defense to present their evidence.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: I think it was indicated already, however from the documents themselves that the area of operation "Kalarribha" was within the jurisdiction and command area of the 68th Army Corps and not the XXII Mountain Corps.
Dr. SCHMIDT: On page 75 of the German Document Book under Bomar III, XXII Mountain Corps, this is on page 105 of the English Document Book, the last sentence:
"In the area of Volos 25 bandits were shot to death in reprisal."
This gives the impression that Volos was within the command area of the XXII Mountain Corps.
MR. FENSTERMACHER: I beg your pardon for my remark. It only added to the confusion but I think your Honor's statement is correct that this is a matter for the defense to bring up at the proper time. I think I had finished with the document on page 105 of the English, 75 of the German, the OKH report of 21 December 1943.
Under that section of the report headed XXII Mountain Corps the final line: