"In reference to this matter, the following suggestions are submitted to you with the request for your early comment and any supplement you may care to make to the individual questions.
"a. All men of class 1904-1927 will be recruited and trans ferred to the mainland."
It is submitted that these are age classes, referring to the year which these people were born, first people 1904 who were then 40 and people 1927 who were at that time 17.
"b. Mixed commissions, consisting of one Croatian Army Officer and one officer of the Ustasha Militia, to which one German officer for liaison purposes with the German authorities will be attached, will effect the seizure and transfer of the men, in cooperation with the local Croatian authorities."
And, I should like to direct the court's attention to the word "seizures."
"c. Members of class 1924 and 1925 are to be sent to the Croatian Armed Forces as recruits, unless they are of the pravoslav religion, and will be turned over to the competent Croatian Military authorities.
d. The rest of the men are available to the Fortress Engineers Staffs for construction work on the coastal fortifications.
e. If politically unreliable persons are found during the seizing , they are to be employed in work battalions outside of the coastal area.
f. For the provisioning of men mentioned under d, the basic directive of the Croatian ministry of the Interior No. VT 11/44 of 22.1.1944, is applicable.
g. The transfer of the men must be completed by 15 March 1944.
For the German General -Plenipotentiary in Croatia The Chief of Staff (signature illegible) Colonel" Page 112 in the German, 65 in the English, NOKW 1339, and this is offered as Exhibit 384.
This is an activity report for the month of February 1944 of the Ninth Secret Field Police Detachment and the first entry under Total Statistics:
Total number of incidents handled, and screenings, 587, and 1, 561 respectively; and then it is to be noted that the next one cites:
"In addition during operation pursuant to directives of the 2nd Panzer Army," they have 7,500 arrests including previous month, 602. We have the police report showing the 2nd Panzer Army was giving them directives. Then they break these figures down:
Executed 5 Turned over to PW camps 3 Turned over the the SD 241 Turned over the courts martial 15 Turned over to Branch Ic 26 For labor allocation to Germany 118 Turned over to Croatian authorities 4 Turned over to other offices 67 To hostage camps 6 Concentration camps 1 Collecting camps 2 Deserter camps 1 Released 52 Still under arrest 61 Distribution:
Wehrmacht Field Police; Chief, Auxiliary Field Police; 2nd Panzer Army; Files. There are only four copies and it is signed by Maurer, Field Police Commissioner and Deputy Unit Leader.
Next we have a report for 20 March 1944 made by Captain Dr. Cartallieri who also made an earlier report which we had in evidence here as Exhibit 336. That was the report the balance of which I furnished the defense counsel in court this morning. He appears as Captain under Wehrmacht operational staff and it is to be noted that it is written at Fuehrer Headquarters -- Hitler Headquarters stamp: Top Secret, 20 copies of which this is the ninth. I might say that the second page of the first letter is missing. We have endeavored to find it and we have not abandoned it as hopeless as yet, but if and when we get it we will certainly furnishit to defense counsel. The subject is: Official trip from 13 March to 18 March '44 and has to do with the Operation Zone, Adriatic Coastland, which has been discussed be earlier exhibits which we have considered.
1.) The conditions in the Operation Zone, Adriatic Coastland cannot be compared with those of the Operation Zone Alpenvorland.
In the Operation Zone Adriatic Coastland not only are there bands in the larger part of the area but there is also the possibility of an enemy-landing there for which the only weakly occupied, cood ports of Trieste, Pola and Fiume offer themselves, with the possibility of a thrust in the direction of Vienna or Hungary, in between the 2 mountain chains.
2.) The Operation Zone, Adriatic Coastland is a bandit-combatting area under the jurisdiction of the Reichsfuehrer-SS-------And if Your Honor please, the Reichsfuehrer SS at that time was Heinrich Himmler ----. However, the competent higher-SS and police leaders lack the necessary forces. On the other hand the Wehrmacht, on account of lack of forces, is also not in a position to destroy the bands.
Coastal defense and the combating of bands in the Operation Zone can only be separated from each other if the competent office for the combating of bands has at its disposal the necessary manpower and material enabling it to carry out its task alone so that the Commander can limit himself calmly to the defense of the coast. Because of lack of Wehrmacht and police-forces, however, it is likely that this will never occur.
3.) The 3-channel system of competence existing up to now in the Operation Zone of Adriatic Coastland is not responsible, as the zone is already practically a combat zone."
And then the "Enclosure 2."
"The Commander In the Operation Zone "Corps Headquarters 24 Feb 1944.
Adriatic Coastland. Stamp Secret."
Subject: Conduct of the fight against the bandits Corps Order No. 9 I. By the withdrawal of the 71st Infantry Division from the coast and the commitment of the 162nd (Turkish) Infantry Division the bands are able to breathe freely.
They terrorize the population, steal cattle and food and recruit followers largely by compulsory drafting. They murder German soldiers from ambush, raid motorcars and columns, blow up railway lines and bridges, plunder food apply transports, destroy cables and wire connections, massacre prisoners and desecrate the corpses of German soldiers.
The one and a half months from 1 January until 15 February 1944 have cost us in dead and wounded 503 victims, amongst whom were 3 commanders.
181 surprise attacks on the Wehrmacht 125 attempts on the railway 22 bridge demolitions on roads and railways 25 Extensive sabotage acts on cables and telephone lines.
68 vehicles destroyed or seriously damaged.
This must be considered great combat by command of the enemy powers. Furthermore it has been determined from captured papers that the bandit leadership is preparing a general uprising of the people according to plans for "the day", that is the day on which the Anglo-Americans wanted to land on our coast.
Therefore serious danger threatens; for the defense of the coast is endangered in the rear, if the bands rage around the country, the leadership is paralyzed, if the communications are cut, reinforcements cannot be brought up; the supply of arms, ammunition and food stops, if the railways are interrupted.
In such a case there is only one solutions:
Terror against terror, An eye for an eye A tooth for a tooth'.The most important commandments in our fight against the insurgents are:
1) What we lack in numerical strength, we must replace with severity in warfare, energy in action and courage of every single one of us.
2) No consideration can be given to our own comfort. No one has a right to "Winterquarters."
The enemy will be pursued wherever he is discovered, even up to the summit of the Monte Navosco or the Triglav. He must be chased to death.
3) The enemy causes the most trouble during the night. Therefore, we too must become like animals of the night and must learn to stop the nightly activities of the enemy by night. Here we have still a lot to learn. A quick change is necessary.
4) Only attack brings success.
Whoever takes up a defensive position when the enemy attacks is lost from the start. In any case he has a liability to the leadership, which has to utilize forces to dig him out."
DR. LATERNSER: This document cannot be submitted by the Prosecution because the Commander in the zone of operations in the Adriatic Coastland is not under the jurisdiction of the Commander-in-Chief of the Southeast. I would ask that the document be withdrawn.
MR. DENNEY: Your Honors, they are from the same territory down there. We make no contention that this man was under any one here, but it is just to show the general warfare down there and in the similar units. We have offered very few documents, as a matter of fact this is the first from this particular command of General Kuebler who was a general of mountain troops in the Adriatic Coastland. It is submitted the the Adriatic Coast is geographically a part of the territory of these operations. It is also attached to the report from the captain of the General Staff in Hitler's Headquarters.
DR. LATERNSER: Your Honors, these are again statements made by the Prosecution. I submit that this commander to the Adriatic Coastland was never subordinate to any of the defendants, and that this document cannot be submitted here in this connection. Otherwise it might be submitted.
JUDGE BURKE: For whatever it may be worth, and without limitations, with which the Tribunal is entirely familiar, it will be received and for that purpose only. I know of no case, where insurgents held out to the end, if they were seriously attacked even if by very small units. I know of many cases however, in which strongholds were conquered and detachments destroyed, because they had limited them selves to defense.
Everything depends on the energy and courage of the leaders. If more than a platoon is employed the Company Commander personally leads; if more than a company.........the Battalion Commander in person, In battle everything is right and necessary which leads to success. I shall cover personally any and every measure which is in accord with this principle.
With regard to the treatment of bandits and their voluntary helpers the greatest severity is to be applied. Captured bandits are to he hanged or shot. Whoever voluntarily supports the bandits either by heltering then or giving them food, by keeping their whereabouts secret or by any other measures, merits death and is to be taken care of.
Whoever can prove that he was forced by terror to passive helping of the bandits is to be treated in a milder way (e.g. deportation for compulsory labor.)
The guiltless are to be spared. It is important to win and preserve by just and correct treatment the confidence and cooperation of that part of the population which is favorably disposed towards us. That at times innocent people also get caught up in battle with their lives and property, is regrettable but cannot be altered. They may thank the bands for their mishaps. We did not start the war against the insurgents.
Collective measures against villages, etc. may be decreed only in direct local and chronological connection with combat actions and only by officers from the rank of captain upwards. They are indicated if the majority of the population has voluntarily supported the bandits. For the rest the carrying out of collective measures needs my permission. It is not necessary to list more completely here what is prescribed, allowed or forbidden. Moreover, in the third year of the war against the insurgents every leader knows what has to be done. The "instructions for Combating Bauds in the East" is valid as far as principles are concerned for the Operation Zone, Adriatic coastland too.
And here again we have a reference to the instructions for combating bands in the East, which has been submitted were also applied in other areas, and here these bands in the East are applicable into Adriatic Zone Coastland.
"To sum up:
The bands are numerically many times superior to us.
They are out to murder us insidiously. By these means, and by sabotage of all kinds, they want to help the Soviets, the English and the Americans in their battle of extermination against our homeland and against the German people which is struggling hard in a fight for its existence."
It is our task to destroy the bands. Extreme severity against the bands and ourselves is prescribed.
Only attack brings success. The leader however is always the decisive person. Everything depends on his energy, his initiative, his ardour and his aggressiveness. This applies to everyone from the Corporal up to the General.
Act accordingly!
(Signed) Kuebler General of Mountain Troops.
and this order is to be distributed down to the Companies. Its principles are to be hammered into the heads of all officers, NCO's and men again and again.
And on page 117 German Text, page 73 English Text, NOKW 1112, which we offer as Exhibit 385 -
JUDGE BURKE: You have completed NOKW 1112.
MR. DENNEY: In my book it is NOKW 1352, which will be Exhibit 386, page 117, and page 73.
This is an order of the 2nd Panzer Army to the subordinate units with reference to cooperation with the SS in accomplishing security tasks. In this order it is submitted the photostat copy is a photostat of a copy which is signed by the defendant Rendulic. The copy that we have here has the stamp of the XV Mountain Corps on it, as being received March 21, 1944, and it refers to an earlier order 62744 of the 2nd Panzer Army, and the Subject: "Chaim of Command in the North Coratian Area." 24 copies, of which this is the 4th copy.
In the first part we are concerned with page 117 of the German and page 74 of the English:
"The main task of the Command Authorities (as per No. 2) in these areas is to protect the railroad line Zagreb-Belgrade as well as the main line (only up to the area borders) during the course of operation "Cannae" and to keep open these vital supply lines. Dur to the lack of forces it will be necessary for this purpose to organize mobile task troops including all possible aids and to commit these flexibly and continuously.
Beyond this, all military and economically important objects are to be secured as far as is at all possible and the command areas to be kept pacified in closest cooperation with the deputy of Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia." And the Reichsfuehrer SS is, of course, Himmler, and it speaks of his deputy in Croatia.
"The Deputy of the Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia will be requested to contact the command authorities and -- in close cooperation with them to employ all forces at his disposal for railroad security and other local security duties.
. . . . . . . . . .
Headquarters, 1st Cossack Division and Commander Syrmia are instructed to co-operate with the Deputy Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia and the Police Officials and Units subordinated to him in the command areas as per No. 3 ........NOKW-1353, page 119 and 75, is offered as prosecution Exhibit 387.
This is from -- this is a teletype and it is from the 2nd Panzer Army to it's subordinate unit, the 15th Corps and it is transmitted on 17 March 1944. It bears the number "17 III 1944 and "17 March 44" is on the original.
"Effective immediately the Representative Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia and his subordinate offices and units are tactically subordinated directly to the 2nd Panzer Army pursuant to the order of the Commander in Chief Southeast (Commander in Chief Army Group F)."
Now here, if your Honors please, referring back to that earlier statement that Dr. Laternser made, Oberbefehlshaber Suedost Oberkommando Heeresgruppe F which, it is submitted, are the same and the reference I made in connection with the prior exhibit, the distribution to Weichs Exhibit 381, where the eight copy went to the Commander in Chief Southeast -- it is submitted that that means Weichs Army Group F; I submit that that was Weichs that they were referring to there, and this is certainly Weichs here. It can't be anybody else. It says, "Oberbefehlshaber Suedost (Oberkommando Heeresgruppe F)" and that is Weichs, is it not?
DR. LATERNSER: Yes, that is correct but when it was submitted formerly "Military Commander Southeast" was said and that is different, and that is why I objected. But previously it was said and then I protested that the Military Commander then was Fieldmarshal von Weichs and that was wrong.
PRESIDING JUDGE BURKE: Does that clear up any possible misunderstanding on the part of either or both of you?
MR. DENNEY: Yes, I just wanted to check on this Exhibit 381. A copy did go to Weichs. There is "OB Suedost" in the German which is Weichs.
PRESIDING JUDGE BURKE: Very well, Mr. Denney, You may proceed.
MR.DENNEY: "The police sector leaders subordinate to the Repre sentative Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia remain subordinate to him in every respect.
They will be instructed to cooperate directly with the Command Authorities of the Wehrmacht and they will be informed that these command authorities are authorized in emergency cases to issue tactical orders directly to the police sector leaders. The Representative Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia is to be informed at the same time.
"The purpose of this subordination is to unite all available German forces in the Croatian area for the period of the operation "CANNAE" with the aim of making more secure the vital traffic lines and economic objectives for troop movements and supply.
"To this end the Representative Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia is requested to contact and to instruct, or either of them the police sector loaders to contact the Command authorities in the Croatia Area (Corps Headquarters Infantry Corps and Headquarters, 1st Cossack Division, Commander Syrmia, V SS Mountain Corps and XV Mountain Corps. By agreement with the Commanding authorities, he is to employ all available forces in the first instance for the protection of vital railroads at the same time withdrawing them as far as possible from less vital objects.
The 69th Infantry Corps, Commander Syrmia, 5th SS Mountain Corps and 15th Mountain Corps on their part will immediately make contact with the competent Police Sector Leaders for the purpose of rapid and coordinated regulation of the Security measure. Completion of mission is to be reported.
"Representative Reich Fuehrer SS for Croatia is to report to the 2nd Panzer Any as soon as possible his forces of the available for security purposes as described under 2 and their planned commitment."
And this is from the 2nd Panzer Any. There is an illegible handwritten signature and there is a certification by one Schindler at the left as being a true copy.
All these units that are set up here, the 69th Corps, the 5th SS Mountain Corps and the 15th Corps were all under the 2nd Panzer Army at this time and, if your Honors will recall, the first contact -the most recent report we have had from it is one to the 69th Corps. However, this communication would indicate that perhaps this first Cossack Division at this time is operating separately because they speak of it in the same breath with which they speak of the Corps.
Page 120 in the German, 77 of the English, NOKW-948, which is offered as prosecution Exhibit 381 -
PRESIDING JUDGE BURKE: 388.
MR. DENNEY: Thank you, your Honor; that is 388. I looked at the wrong page.
These are notes on a conference in which there participated the Commanding General and the Chief of the General Staff, SS Chief of Brigade, Fitzthum, who was referred to in an earlier exhibit, Colonel Peter, SS.Hauptsturmfuehrer, Wirth and Major von Thuengen.
It is dated 12 April. It speaks of the evacuation of billets for placing the SS Division "Skanderbag." This Skanderbag Division which was the 21st SS Mountain Division at this time was in the 21st Mountain Corps and at this date the 21st Mountain Corps was not yet commanded by the defendant Leyser but it was at this time under the 2nd Panzer Army which was commanded by the defendant Rendulic. I just wanted to make it clear that the defendant Leyser is not involved in this.
"Evacuation of billets for placing the SS Division 'Skanderbag' in the Kosovo area. It was decided that only 4 battalions of the 1st and 4th Jaeger Regiment were to remain in the Kosovo area as frontier protection. The Battalions have to evacuate the large billets and are to be put up in smaller places along the frontier.
"The transfer of the other Jaeger Battalions from the Kosovo area is to be carried out in an accelerated manner as follows:
And then they list the batazllions and where they go.
"Establishment of a concentration camp in Tetovo is to be carried out in an accelerated manner by the German General in Zagreb.
"SS Brigade Leader Fitzhum reported about his visit with Minister Neubacher.
"S.M. can be arrested outside of Tiranas and delivered to Semlin.
"The view of Corps Headquarters, that in the operational area no consideration need be taken of the Sovereignty of the neutral Albanian state, is confirmed.
"Appointment of Friqui Dino as 4th member of the government council is not tolerable.
"The evacuation of Serba from the Albanian Kosovo area must be stopped immediately, as the capacity of the Serbian state is exhausted.
"Labor employment for these Serbs is provided for in the Reich.
"For the Special Commando Lange there is to be expected a new service direction of the OKW.
"The utilization of the SS Division "Skanderbag" outside of the Albanian area is mentioned briefly. The question is not acute at the moment and is to be set aside.
The Division will take the oath of the Fuehrer and the Albanian State."
And Your Honors' attention is just directed generally to the matters which were discussed. The Commanding General and Chief of Staff were here, and these SS people -- political questions, questions of forced labor, deportations, et cetera.
Now 1416, which is page 121 of the German, 179 of the English, is offered as 389. These are orders of the 15th Mountain Corps, which at this time commanded by the defendant Leyser. There are enclosures to the War Diary, various daily reports, et cetera. These are in most cases signed typed. However, there at the end there is one printed: "(Signed) von Leyser" which is certified to by a signa ture of Colonel Pfafferott whose signature we have seen before.
The first entry is for 7 April 1944. It has to do with "Conduct of War on the Island."
"It is a prerequisite of successful defense at the enemy should learn from the population neither anything regarding the situation nor details concerning our positions and strength. Consequently blockedoff zones several kilometers in depth are to be set up near the bases on the occupied islands which are to be completely evacuated by and kept free of the population without any exceptions. The limits of these blocked-off zones are to be marked with warning notices. Any civilian encountered there is to be shot dead immediately. Execution is to be reported by 17 April.
Then this is a teletype to 2nd Panzer Army, with copies at indicated for 16 April?
"7 kilometers southeast ROGOSNIA and area SINJ two bandits each shot dead while escaping."
Then one to the 2nd Panzer Army, 20 April, report of 373rd Division to the Croatian Unit under the 15th Corps:
"Due to interrupted radio communication no report operation Wiliam. Own convey attacked on supply road. Bandits repelled by concentrated fir. Pursuing Croatian combat group takes one machine gun and ammunition in booty. No losses of our own. Lines south of Nebljusi extended, one bandit shot dead, 3 band suspects arrested."
Then daily report to the 22nd again, the 2nd Panzer Army, and from the 15th corps. This is for the 382 Division, and this is the socalled Croatian Blue Division. We have it listed as being under the 21st Corps. However, the reports here are sandwiched between these of the 264th Division under the 15th Corps at that time, and the 373rd Division, which was also under the 15th Corps, and they were reporting because Colonel Pfafferett has signed the original:
"Keulenschlag": In the course of continued mopping up of the area west Dreznica at present inconsiderable resistance by minor bands. Five enemy dead, three prisoners, 2 deserts. Booty established up to now: 30 tons of infantry ammunition, 15 tons of artillery ammunition, machine gun and trench mortar material, five cubic meters Diesel, 60 tires, 100 bags of salt several cases of cigarettes and cigars, matches, 60 cart loads boards. I command hut and one medical hut were destroyed, also one printing plant. During the course of the thrust by Ustashi from Gospic towards the northwest - 10 enemy dead, 1 prisoner, 1 machine gun, 9 rifles, 1 cart with two horses. Reconnaissance patrol southwest of Ogulin brought in 8 prisoners, 3 enemy dead."
Then for the 373rd Division, they report the activities of a reconnaissance patrol, and again they use the term "deserters", even as hey have in the prior sections of this report, and this bears the signature, "Pfafferett", and typed is "15th Mountain Corps, 1a".Then the next communication is for the 23rd of April, again to the 2nd Panzer Army, Section, 262th Division:
"In reprisal for attacks on our trucks two villages 4 kilometers northwest of Tregir were partly burned down; 2 kilometers est of Tregir 2 soldiers shot down by bandits. Up to now 2 suspects arrested."
In 126 of the German, 84 of the English, report to the 2nd Panzer Army for 24th of April, 264th Division:
"Reprisal for attack band billets 4½ kilometers northeast of Primostern burned down."
The 373rd division:
"Operation "Klettersteig": In the course of forward thrust by the Third Battalion Division, (that should be the 383 regiment, Your Honors,) in the area of Turevac-Jelovac, bandits repelled, five villages burned down."
Then here is a communication to the 264th Division, and an information copy goes to the first Brandenburg Regiment. This bears, at the end of it, the typed signature, of the defendant, "von Leyser," certified to by "Pfafferett", and "Colonel, General Staff Corps."
(Page 86)
"The islands situated in front of the area of the 264th division serve the bands to a great extent as transfer points for supply. Of particular importance to the enemy are the islands."
and then they list them.
"Details concerning enemy situation will follow currently. Interference by enemy air-force and enemy naval forces must always be counted on.
"The 264th Division will mop up these islands. Supplies and installations of all kinds of benefit to the enemy are to be secured or destroyed. Enemy shipping is to be seized and the male civilian population capable of bearing arms is to be evacuated from the islands as far as possible; at least suspicious persons must be arrested."
Page 128 of the German, 88 of the English, NOKW 788, which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 390. --
PRESIDING JUDGE BURKE: Did you say, "390"?
MR. DENNEY: 390 I believe, your Honors, is correct.
PRESIDING JUDGE BURKE: You may proceed, Mr. Denney.
MR. DENNEY: This is a teletype from the 15th Mountain Corps to the 69th Reserve Corps, one of its subordinate units. It is dated May. At this time the defendant Rendulic commanded the 2nd Panzer Army, which was the higher headquarters of both units.
The 15th Mountain Corps at this time was commanded by the defendant, Leyser:
"In the Kerdun mountains an anti-Communist movement is organizing. Consequently suggestion; troops to be directed to be moderate in taking loot and in destruction."
This is all typed except for the handwritten part.
NOKW 790, at 129 of the German, 89 of the English, is offered as 391. This is a combat report concerning the operation, "Schach" which was referred to before, which was being conducted by the troops of the 69th Corps, and this is from the 1st Jaeger Reserve Regiment.
The operation took place between the 26th and the 28th of May, 1944:
"The enemy occupied in strength the area Kestenjak from Sica to Bukovac with 1st Kordun Battalion: with elements on the other side of the Korana river the area north and south Veljun with one" and they list the units of the third Brigade.
"The area Primislje and the heights situated south and east of it with I. Brigade of the 8th Kordun Division.
In Rijeka 55th Reconnaissance Battalion had contact with the 1st Mountain Regiment. A document was captured by the 1st Cavalry Regiment which shows that the bandits had received written information concerning the committment four days prior to the operation.
In the course of combing through the terrain 4 trucks were captured (2 were out of commission, I was blasted, I was given over to the police." One evacuated hospital and numerous telephone lines, 1 print shop and 1 motor vehicle repair shot were destroyed and rations and some heads of cattle were secured."
Then they give the results:
"Enemy dead: 17 wounded, 100 estimated Prisoners:
2 officers Own losses:
2 dead, 5 wounded Destroyed:
1 hospital with furnishings (secured 7 quilted blankets, 6 pillows, 33 mattresses)" Signed by, "Hammerschmidt, Colonel and Regimental Commander."
Then we have the next thing from an element of the 69th Corps. which is NOKW 789, which is effored as Prosecution Exhibit 392. This bears the stamp of the 69th Corps, and again this is in June, 1944, when the corps was still subordinate to 2nd Panzer Army. This hears at the end, the illegible signature of a Captain and Battalion of the 383rd Infantry Regiment:
"In Zirovac three well-furnished military hospitals with 200 beds are burned down."
"According to statements by prisoners the enemy is composed of the I, II, and III Banja Brigade about 3000 men in strength as well as of units of the Huske-Brigade."
Under the date of the 27th of May, which is at the top of page 136 of the German, 92 of the English:
"General: According to statements of prisoners the radio operators and the Artillery officers on the enemy side were Englishmen. Also an English-American Commission is alleged to have been with the VII Division. Tite himself was in Topuske on the 18th of May, and according to the unanimous statements of civilians and prisoners he was in the area of Raume Petrova Gera.