Ops. Staff of the Armed Forces (Verw.l)
No. 006988/44 Secret .
30 June 1944 Secret
3 Copies, Copy No. 1
Subject: Treatment of enemy terror-aviators
[Marginal note: "We must really do something about this now. What is still necessary?"]
[initialed] W. [Warlimont]
[Initialed] K [Keitel] 30/6 Agenda
I. Enclosed I submit the draft of a reply of the Minister for
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Foreign Affairs to the Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, which has been passed to the Armed Forces Ops Staff (WFSt) through Ambassador Ritter.
Ambassador Ritter has advised us by telephone on 29 June that the Minister for Foreign Affairs has approved this draft, but that he has ordered Envoy Sonnleitner to present the attitude of the Foreign Office to the Fuehrer, before the letter is sent to the Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces. The letter is to be forwarded to the Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces only after the approval by the Fuehrer of the principles established by the Foreign Office.
II. The Reichsmarshall agrees with the precise wording of the definition of the term "terror-aviators" as given by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces and with the proposed procedure.
/s/ WARLIMONT
Distribution:
Chief of Supreme Command of Armed Forces via Deputy Chief of the Armed Forces Ops. Staff Copy #1 KTB (War Diary) Copy #2
Qu (Verw.l) Copy #3
[pencil note illegible]
Memorandum on the Foreign Office draft policy on the treatment of captured Allied airmen, and Goering's agreement
Authors
Walter Warlimont (general; deputy chief, operations staff of the armed forces)
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
Date: 30 June 1944
Literal Title: Subject: Treatment of enemy terror-aviators
Defendants: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Joachim Ribbentrop, von
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
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-740
Citation: IMT (page 2373)
HLSL Item No.: 451968
Notes:For Ritter's letter to the military high command, which is cited, see document PS 728.
Document Summary
PS-740: Warlimont's Top Secret Note on plans for the killing of certain allied fliers
PS-740: Top-secret note by Warlimont, 30 June 1944, on von Rib-bentrop’s and Goring’s attitude toward the proposed procedure against enemy fliers
PS-740: Memorandum by Warlimont (handwritten signature) to Keitel, dated 30 June 1944 and initialed by Keitel.
before the letter (the approved draft of the fliers order) is forwarded to Keitel.