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Memoranda on the policy for the treatment of commandos and saboteurs, and the use of sabotage tactics by Germany

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Walter Warlimont (general; deputy chief, operations staff of the armed forces)

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Walter Warlimont

German general (1894-1976)

Born: 1894-10-03 (Osnabrück)
Died: 1976-10-09 (Kreuth)
Country of citizenship: Germany
Occupation: military officer (military rank: general)
Member of: High Command of the Armed Forces (since: 1941-01-01)
Participant in: Hostages Trial (date: 1947-07-04; role: affiant); Judges' Trial
Significant person: Hermann Foertsch (role: colleague, friend); Walter Kuntze
Military rank: General of the Artillery

Alfred Jodl (chief of wehrmacht operations staff)

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Alfred Jodl

German general and convicted war criminal (1890-1946)

Born: 1890-05-10 (Würzburg)
Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg)
Country of citizenship: German Reich; Kingdom of Bavaria; Weimar Republic
Occupation: military personnel; politician
Member of political party: Nazi Party
Participant in: International Military Tribunal (role: defendant)
Military rank: Generaloberst
Military branch: artillery

Oberkommando of the Wehrmacht (OKW) (high command and/or general staff)

Date: 15 October 1942

Literal Title: Re: Fight against enemy sabotage troops.

Defendant: Alfred Jodl

Total Pages: 11

Language of Text: Multilanguage

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-1263

Document Book No: Prosecution Jodl: additional

HLSL Item No.: 452127

Notes:The document is given in English, then German. Some notes by Jodl are included; Warlimont is the primary author. PS 1263 was entered as French exhibit 365. For the resulting order, see document D 762.

Trial Issue

Partisan fighters (and commandos), operations against, and treatment of (I…

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PS-1263: Warlimont's notes about the drafting of the Order on the Treatment of Saboteurs

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PS-1263: Top-secret memorandum by Warlimont, 14 October 1942, concerning the attitude of the Wehrmachtfuhrungs-stab on the question of exterminating enemy sabotage units; unsigned memorandum of the same. date and memorandum by Warlimont, 15 October 1942, on the same subject; top-secret extract from a teletype, 10 October 1942, from the Ausland Abwehr (counterespionage service) to the Wehrmachtfuhrungsstab on the extermination of British sabotage troops and top-secret draft order on the same subject, October 1942, by the chief of the Okw

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PS-1263: Notes for a verbal report by General Warlimont, Deputy Chief of OKW Operational Staff (with his handwritten signature) of 15 October 1942.

that, in order to avoid reparcussions, the order for killing Allied Commandos be drafted in such a manner as to protect Germany's own sabotage troops. After all, sabotage is an essential part of warfare in times of total war; Germany herself has strongly developed sabotage tactics.

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