Since this piece of paper lacks documentary character it has to be rejected as a document.
MR. DENNEY: The answer to the objection is the same as before. This is a captured document. The document is certainly submitted as being just what it purports to be, a typewritten copy which is unsigned, but it bears in type writing also at the bottom, signed Turner, and it is offered for such probative value as the court deems fit to give it in conjuction with all of these other documents which we have seen, many of which are signed, and some of which are unsigned.
THE PRESIDENT: The Tribunal is of the opinion that inasmuch as this purports to be a captured document that even though it does not bear a written signature, it will be accepted for such value as the court feels should be given to it and that is in line with the other exhibits.
MR. DENNEY: It is dated Belgrade 26 October 1941, 20 copies, 16th copy.
To: All Administrative Sub-Areas and all District Headquarters.
In that connection, in the way Serbia was organized, this goes to all Administrative sub-areas and all District Headquarters so it is certainly conceivable a good many copies had been made. It is shown on its face there were twenty.
For certain reasons the administrative sub-area and district headquarters are to be informed of the following:
The Plenipotentiary Commanding General in Serbia is charged with carrying out the affairs of the Commander of Serbia. Headquarters Staff and Administrative Staff remain in the same composition as before. If orders of the Plenipotentiary Commanding General refer to the Chief of the Administrative Staff with the Commander in Serbia, who co-operates closely with a Staff of the Plenipotentiary Commanding General.
The situation in Serbia makes it impossible at the present time to have an administration in certain districts.
That is why it is the more important that the Administrative sub-area.
and district headquarters see to it that a Serbian administration under German supervision is recognized in the territories cleaned up by our units or by Serbian Gendarmerie and Police Organs respectively. This is the exclusive task of the Administrative sub-area and district headquarters.
In carrying out the order dated 10.10.41 Diary No. 2848/41 Secret.
If I might interrupt to call the court's attention again, there is the reference to the basic order, which Exhibit 88 in evidence NOKW 557and appears at page 34 in Document book 3.
Returning now to the text after the word "Secret".
the units have carried out shootings in some localities which have resulted in serious consequences. The order of 25.10.41 No. 3208/41 Secret which is sent to the Administrative Sub-Area and District Headquarters for information concerning certain directives issued by the Commanding General Plenipotentiary.
If I may interrupt again please, that is the order which appears on page 83, the order of 25 October 1941 which had the details enclosed with reference to the directives for executions and I believe the court will recall that we just read it.
THE PRESIDENT: With reference to matters which were presented in the court this morning, arrangements have been made for a conference with certain individuals and that has been set for 4:20. That hour has been reached. We will adjourn at this time until 0930 Monday morning.
THE TRIBUNAL WILL RECESS UNTIL 0930 O'CLOCK MONDAY MORNING, 21 JULY 1947, Official Transcript of Military Tribunal V, Case 7, in the matter of the United States of America against Wilhelm List et at, defendants, sitting at Nurnberg, Germany, on 21 July 1947, 0930, Justice Wennerstrum presiding.
THE MARSHAL: Persons in the Courtroom will please find their seats.
The Honorable, the Judges of Military Tribunal 5.
Military Tribunal 5 is now in session. God save the United States of America and this honorable Tribunal.
There will be order in the Court.
THE PRESIDENT: Marshal, you will ascertain if all the defendants are in the court room.
THE MARSHAL: May it please your Honors, all defendants are present in the Courtroom.
THE PRESIDENT: Before we proceed with the regular Tribunal matters, the Court wants to make a statement in connection with the information that was brought to your attention Friday morning by counsel for the defendants relative to the matter of searching the defense counsel.
This Tribunal is conscious of the fact that we do not have any particular control over the administration of the matters which pertain to security, but we are desirous of cooperating with defense counsel and making it possible for them to present their case in a manner which will be helpful to them. Because of that interest, we had a conference with the officials Friday afternoon and the information was brought to us that the incident that happened at the mess hall was a result of a misunderstanding on the part of one of the officers there, and the men concerned.
We were assured that it would not happen again. In that connection, however, I want to make this statement; that as I understand it, as the Tribunal understands it, there was an arrangement made some several weeks or months ago which was agreeable to the security officers and defense counsel relative to these cards. Now there have been some incidents where some of defense counsel have rather hastily pushed the cards at the guards and have indicated that--that is, an attitude that they didn't have to show the cards.
If defense counsel will cooperate in the previous arrangements which have been made relative to the showing of these cards and show the proper attitude--I mean a courteous attitude-- which I know all of them will, I am quite certain that the incident that happened Friday will not occur again.
The Court was willing to take this and to go to this trouble. We were interested in bringing this matter to the attention of the authorities in the desire to be helpful to all concerned and we ask the cooperation now on the part of defense counsel and all other parties who may be concerned. That is all I have to say.
You may proceed.
MR. DENNEY: May it please your Honors, the prosecution has twelve additional copies of the document which was marked Exhibit 38-A for identification, which is the list of documents containing the references to the courts on which each of the documents in Document Book I is offered, and the defendants against whom these counts are offered. And will you hand these to the defense counsel at this time?
Further, in connection with Exhibit 38-A, the list to which reference has just been made, there have been some five omissions which we would like at this time to add to the list 38-A with reference to Document NOKW-1151 which is Exhibit 7, in addition to the defendant Weiche, it is also offered against the defendants List and Foertsch. Exhibit No. 9, which is Document NOKW-1522; in addition to the defendants List and Foertsch, it is also offered as against the defendants Felmy and Kuntze. Exhibit No. 10, which is Document NOKW-1382, in addition to the defendants List and Foertsch; it is also offered against the defendants Felmy and Kuntze; and then the last two--Document No, 454-PS, which is Exhibit No. 15 in evidence, in addition to the defendants List and Foertsch it is also offered against the defendants Felmy and Kuntze. And Document NOKW-1432, which is Exhibit 16, in evidence, in addition to the defendants List and Foertsch, it is also offered against the defendants Felmy and Kuntze.
With reference to Document Book II, the last document which was offered in that document book was Document 77 and we now ask that a list of the counts on which the documents in Document Book II are offered and the defendants against whom they are offered be marked Exhibit 77-A and inserted at the end of Document Book II. I hand three copies of 77-A to the Tribunal, 24 copies for the defense counsel, two copies for the Secretary General and a copy for the interpreters and the court reporters, one each.
THE PRESIDENT: The marking of this document as Exhibit 77-A is as I understand it to be accepted into the record under the same conditions that the like document was received relative to Document Book II?
MR. DENNEY: One.
THE PRESIDENT: Or one, and is so marked as an exhibit solely for the purpose of identification and is not to be received as an exhibit proper for the benefit of the court and interested counsel in their study of the case.
MR. DENNEY: That is our understanding, if your Honor pleases, in conformity with your Honor's ruling of last week.
On Friday when we adjourned, we had reached Document NOKW-802which is Exhibit 105, in evidence, appearing at page 96 of the English text and 71 of the German text; and we had reached the end of the first page of the exhibit. I should like to direct your Honors' attention to the fact that this copy which is from the Commanding Plenipotentairy in Serbia, Gen. Boehme, dated 26 October, 1941, to all administrative subareas and all district headquarters, the last page which we had just finished--the last paragraph of the first page which we had just finished reading; there is a reference to diary No. 2848/41 of the 10th of October. That is a reference.
THE PRESIDENT: Pardon me, for my information may I make inquiry as to from what page you are reading?
MR. DENNEY: Page 96 of the English.
THE PRESIDENT: Ninety-six?
DR. DENNEY: Yes, sir. The last page, the page which we had concluded on Friday, and it is the last paragraph on that page. It is page 96 of Document Book III, the reference in the first line of the last paragraph of that page is to Exhibit 88 in evidence, which is page 34 of the English document Book III and page 27 of the German Document Book III and it refers to the order of Boehme which referred, if your Honors will recall, to the OKW order of Keitel which was the OKW order put in as the Exhibit 53. Then the reference on the third line from the bottom to the order of 25 October 1941 refers to NOKW562 which is at page 83 in Document Book III, and as your Honors will recall the No. 3208/41, it is the order from Boehme which he signed which had to do again with the suppression of the insurgent movement in Serbia.
Continuing then with the paragraph starting at the top of page 97:
This order shows clearly in paragraph 2 the cooperation, and there again he is referring to his order of 25 October, Exhibit 83, I The coo-eration of the Administrative Sub-area and District Headquarters. According to this order not only are the units to be advised in the seizure of hostages but - if my order dated 10.10,41 was carried out as directed - the Administrative Sub-Area and District Headquarters must be able to put at the disposal of the units a number of hostages without any difficulties. The ratio being 1:100 in case of a dead and 1:50 in case of a wounded German soldier it will frequently happen that the Administrative Sub-area and District Headquarters will not be in a position to furnish the required number of hostages, if a certain concept of guilt should be taken into consideration to some extent, even if only on the basis of the general behavior of those to be arrested. In such cases I am to be informed by the speediest possible means.
As a matter of principle it must be said that Jews and Gypsies in general represent an element of insecurity and thus a danger to public order and safety. It is the Jewish intellect which has brought about this war and which must be annihilated. The gypsy, because of his internal and external make-up cannot be a useful member of a peoples' community. It has been found that the Jewish element participates considerably in the leadership of the bands and that Gypsies in particular are responsible for special atrocities and for the communication systems. That is why it is a matter of principle in each case to put all Jewish men and all male Gypsies at the disposal of the units for hostages. Moreover it is intended to transfer the women and children of Jews and Gypsies in a collection camp in the near future and to remove this disquieting element from Serbian territory by way of resettlement.
Proper preparations for this are to be made.
Per se it is against the concept of the German Soldier and civil servant to seize women for hostages. Nevertheless arrests are to be made if it is a matter of wives or family members respectively of insurgents who are in the mountains.
In such case greater severity means at the same time greater clemency. In this way the bandit suffers the consequences of his own actions. The sense of justice of the decent part of the population is appealed to, while the belief in the feeling for justice of the German Wehrmacht must be destroyed if not only people who are completely innocent are shot to death but - as occurred in one case, just those men of the village were executed who had remained at their place of work waiting for the German Troops, because of their confidence in their own innocence and because of their obedience to the German Arms.
These ideas are to be propagated by the Administrative subArea and District Headquarters. A Commanding Officer of a District Headquarters reports that a Regimental Commander forced him to sign an order which was against his own opinion. The Commanding Officers of the Administrative Sub-Area and District Headquarters are in no case subordinate to the unit commander in administrative affairs except by virtue of a Special Order.
In the present situation the Commanding Officers of the Administrative Sub-Area and District Headquarters are carrying a heavy responsibility. Essentially it is their part to bring about a co-ordination of Military needs, which in view of the situation must have priority, with the needs of a well planned administration.
For the Commanding General-Plenipotentiary in Serbia The Chief of the Military Staff (signed ) Turner Certified True Copy The next document is NOKW 1202 which is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 106 and is a proclamation by the German Commandant to the Serbian population with reference to retaliation measures.
It was issued sometime in 1941 as may be seen from the dates, that is October 1941, as may be seen from the dates at the close of 21 October to 31 October----12 October and 31 October. Excuse me, Your Honor.
The German Army does not want to take your freedom and to prevent you from working peacefully,. But just like your Belgrade Government it demands, peace, order, and security in the country.
Insurgent Communists, Jews, and plunderers have united. They force you to join their ranks, endanger your property and life.
Repeatedly German soldiers have been murdered cruelly. Also individual national organizations of your country have made alliance with these insurgentsin order ot harm the German Wehrmacht.
The German Wehrmacht has looked on at this activity for a long time, to give you time to think it over. Instead of acknowledging gratefully the generous attitude of the German Wehrmacht you in many cases have believed more in the lies and provocative whispers of communistic and ambitious leaders. So it happened, that many of you not only did not resist the insurgents but even supported the insurgents. Thereby you have become accomplices to the criminal acts of the insurgents.
Lately raids on vital installations of economy and traffic have increased as well as organized attacks on German forces. Here again many German soldiers were murdered in brutality.
The German Wehrmacht must and shall put an end to this activity with all means and unyielding severity to restore peace and security also for you.
The following directives become effective immediately:
1) He who even supports the insurgents or their accomplices:
by means of arms and ammunition by erecting road blocks, by destroying bridges, by giving food, by transmitting information, by providing transportation, or by any other manner, will be shot.
2) He who even carries fire arms, pointed weapons, hand brenades or other weapons, will be shot.
4) The communities in whose area arms and ammunition are found, in whose area road blocks or destroyed bridges are found without being prevented or immediately averted on by you, in whoso area other hostile acts occur, will be severely punished by the burning down of houses and shooting of inhabitants.
For every German soldier killed 100 inhabitants will be shot. (handwritten) 2 Don't permit yourself to be deceived by Communist leaders or other ambitious leaders.
The German Wehrmacht is strong and victorious. Armies of millions of your alleged friends in Russia have been destroyed with their entire equipment.
The rest is being destroyed.
Petersburg and Moscow are about to fall.
The German Wehrmacht is also in a position to break all resistance in Berbia.
Beware of heavy penalties. Keep peace.
The German Commandant And then the stamps which appear below are self-explanatory.
The note to the 342nd Infantry Division, Tactical Group of the General Staff.
DR. LATERNSER: Your Honor, I object to the proclamation to the Serbian population which has just been read. First of all this proclamation isn't signed. These again are three typewritten sheets of paper, without a heading, or a signature, from which no one could see who issued this proclamation. Attached to this document-
I object to the introduction of this document. This again is a document which is neither signed nor has a heading from which one can see who issued it. Attached to it is the photostat copy, of the back side of a cover originating from the Commanding General (KdB) od the 342nd Infantry Division but there are two other proclamations attached to it which are different from what the Prosecutor has just read. Whether these things belong to each other, I do not know it and also the certificate which is attached to these documents does not state any connection for this certificate only speaks about one "Proclamation to Serbians."
MR. DENNEY: The certificate recites 6 photostatic pages which is the number of pages here and again as has been the practice before, we are offering only so much of it as we think is relevant. The cover of which he speaks is a photostatic copy of the back, the binding, of the diary, from which the papers were taken, the diary of the 342nd Infantry Division; the date is 12 October, to 31 October, covered by this period of the diary from which these parts are taken, the captured documents. Perhaps Your Honor would like to see the photostats which we have here.
DR. LATERNSER: I would like to state again the attitude of the defense that from each document it must be seen whether it has ever been signed and who sipped it. Since this isn't the case I must protest against it.
THE PRESIDENT: This Exhibit comes within the category of similar exhibits which have been found as captured documents, a portion of which is a printed proclamation and under the rules of procedure by which these Tribunals were set up, documents of this character, as this Tribunal understands it, are to be accepted in evidence. We appreciate that it is not shown who signed it but it will be accepted for such probative value as the court considers that it merits. The objection will be over-ruled.
MR. DENNEY: The next document which appears at page 78 of the German text and page 103 of the English text is NOKW 226 and is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 107. In this document I would appreciate if Your Honors would first turn to page 105 which is the third page of the document.
May I see the document for a moment, Dr. Laternser?
If Your Honors will look at page 105 which is page 77 in the German. This is a communication from the defendant List, Wehrmacht Commander, Southeast and Commander in Chief of the 12th Army and one enclosure is recited which recites one incident. It is dated 6 October 1941 and the enclosure will follow. The letter is addressed to the Commending General-Plenipotentiary in Serbia, Boehme, and the letter is signed by Field Marshal List.
It says:
The enclosed incident is to be investigated.
I am under the impression that the procedure in this case is a mistaken one. The dismissal of the farmer (page 2) , and that, if Your Honor pleases refers to the original German, was wrong. What reprisal measures have been ordered against the inhabitants of Grabovac for the sawing through of the telegraph poles?
Then turning to page 156, page 76 in the German. This is the report which Field Marshal List enclosed with his letter to General Boehme. This report is dated 27 September 1941 and it is made by Oberwachtmeister (Master Sergeant) Below. The subject is: Sabotage on telephone Lines Obrenovac-Valjevo during the night of the 25 and 26 of September 1941. The report states:
On 21.9.41 I received the order to repair the destroyed telephone lines Obrenovac in the direction of M1. Borak with 2 telephone construction detachments and 1 Infantry Platoon as construction security.
According to the reconnaissance of the 6th Company about 60 poles were sawed through, about 28 fields were cut and the telephone wire or most of it had been taken away.
On 25 September 1941 the line was ready for operation again up to Brgule. South of it 10 poles had already been laid out for further construction.
When I went to the construction area in the morning of 26 September 1941 I found a new place of sabotage 3 km. south of Obrenovac. 10 poles were sawn through, 1 pole had been 4/5 sawn through, the wires were cut and the insulators were broken. The railroad tracks with their sleepers had been torn from the railroad bed. Since I had along with me railroad workers for switch work at the railroad station of Brgule I employed these to repair the tracks.
After the detachments had been employed for repairs on the new scenes of disturbance and the tracks were made usable for traffic I reconnoitered the line in the direction of the railroad station of Brgule. There I found the second new scene of disturbance, 3 1/2 kilometers south of the railroad station of Stubline. Here 40 poles were sawn through, the lines were cut and the insulators were broken. Here also the tracks were torn out for 2 x 50 meters and were lying next to the railroad bed. At this place on 25 September 1941 I, with my construction detachments, had newly wired 22 fields and had put in again 3 poles.
According to statements of farmers working in the fields the sabotage actions taken place in the morning hours of 26 September 41 between 2:00 and 5:00 o'clock. It seems that the bandits destroyed the lines simultaneously in both places where from it may be deduced that the actions were undertaken through a central office.
The places of sabotage were 9 km. removed from each other.
During the repair work 3½ km. south of Obrenovac a farmer came forward who made the enclosed statements. On my orders the farmer was brought to the police station of Obrenovac.
(signed) Below Then follows the short statement of the farmer made to Sergeant Below which was enclosed with the Sergeant's report which came to the attention of the Field Marshal and which he, in turn, forwarded with his communication to General Boehme.
The report continues:
27 September 1941, Statement of the farmer from Stubline:
The farmer, a native of Stubline, taken alone from the place of sabotage to Obrenovac states as follows:
Communists forced farmers from Grabovac to saw off the wooden bars and 10 poles on the first place of sabotage. The fellow was unable to make any further statements. Thereupon he was dismissed by the police Lieutenant Heinrich.
And, that dismissal, it is submitted, was being complained of in the basic communication forwarding the reports.
Then turning to page 78 of the German, which is page 104 of the English, is the reply of General Boehme to his Commander, Commander List, and the subject contains Ic/Army High Command No. 1807/41 dated 6.10.41 which Your Honors will see is the number the communication received in the diary of the Wehrmacht Commander Southeast by looking at page 105 where the same figures appeared. And, also, it says, dated 6 October 1941 and that is the date of the original communication.
This is directed to the Wehrmacht Commander in the Southeast and Commander in Chief of the 12th Army.
Referring to the incident above regarding sabotage on the telephone line Obrenovac-Valjevo, report is made as follows:
1. The Commanding General-Plenipotentiary in Serbia was not informed that farmers from Grabovac executed the sabotage of the telephone line on 21 September, since this report, by the senior signal communication officer was sent erroneously to the Corps Signal Communication section.
2. The 125th Infantry Regiment was ordered, during the combing of the area south of Obrenovac, to burn down each 5th house in the village of Grabovac as a result of the sabotage.
(initial) B (signature) Boehme General of the Infantry 17729/13 (illegible initial) Turning to page 78 of the German and 103 of the English text, the first page of Exhibit 107 is offered; this is a further communication from the Plenipotentiary Commanding General in Serbia to the defendant List dated 20 October 1941 and the same basic number appears in the reference, 1807/41 and the date again referring to the original communication from Field Marshal List and this time a subject has been added and it states:
"Reprisal Measures Grabovac." The communication is again addressed, as was the communication of one week earlier, to the Wehrmacht Commander in the Southeast and the Commander in Chief of the 12th Army.
In addition to the report here, dated 6.10.41 it is reported that the village of Grabovac was burned down entirely and 73 inhabitants were shot to death by the 125th Infantry Regiment (handwritten) since shots were fired on the unit from this village.
Again turning to page 79 of the German text and page 109 of the English text, Documents Nos.
NOKW 1074 and it is offered as Prosecution Exhibit 109 in evidence. This is extracts of the war diary of the 717 Infantry Division and the period with which we are concerned is that from July to December in the year 1941. During this period the cover page of the diary recites that the unit was subordinate to the 65th Corps which was under the command of one Bader, and was in Serbia and which in turn was subordinate to the defendant List through the deceased General Boehme. The entry for 7 July 1941 During this period the cover page of the diary recites that the unit was subordinate to the 65th Corps which was under the command of one Bader, Bader, and was in Serbia and which in turn was subordinate to the defendant List through the deceased General Boehme.
The entry for 7 July 41: "The 9th and 11th Companies, 737th Regiment under the leadership of Captain Rinkloben reached Borcane after 5 hours of climbing at 0430 hours, without contact with the enemy. In Borcane, 2 dead Serbs, some ammunition, and a few women and children were found. The Battalion is resting up there, will march back and will be transported at 1600 hours in Slatina. Borcane was set on fire, as the male population proved by its flight that it had participated in the combat."
The Daily Report: There is a note about the Honor company, of the 737th Regiment, which is to be ready for the reception of the Field Marshall, --and it is submitted that that refers to the General Field Marshall --- as well as the band of the 749th Infantry Regiment, and both of these units had arrived in Nish.
Then on the date of 21 July -- this is a report to the -partial extraction of the report to the 65th Corps -- on this date we note that the visit of General Field Marshal -- and here his name is recited -- List is progressing according to plan.
"On 20 July at 1000 hours, 11 men and 1 woman arrested by the 2nd Company of the 1st Battalion on 18 July 1941, were shot to death in Cacak by the Serbian gendarmerie under the supervision of the SS. Four men are from Caca; all the others from the neighborhood. Among the 11 men there was allegedly a top leader of the Communists in Serbia."
Then the next page is one that I don't think we need to do any more than note in passing that they report on the 6th of July that 10 houses were set on fire at Borcane and the note at the bottom of the page is self-explanatory.
Then on the following page, the Daily Report of 20 August 1941:
"One platoon of the 2nd Company of the 749th Regiment was transferred to upper Milanovac:" and then the recital about the 8th Company of the 737th Regiment being transferred, and under d "according to report of the Kragujevac District Headquarters, 8 Serbian gendarmes engaged in combat at about 0800 hours with a Serbian band at Knic (about 20 kilometers Southwest of Kragujevac). The "Jagdkommando" of the 3rd Battalion, 749 Regiment immediately went to their aid."
And the next entry: "The 'Jagdkommando' of the 1st Battaion, mentioned in yesterday's Daily Report, reached the Kablar-Height, Point 875 under the leadership of an agent towards midnight. The band was not found; however, on the heights North of the hiding place, machine gun emplacements were found. In one of them, half a box of ammunition was still left. Three persons who wanted to flee were forced by fire to stop; one of them was shot in the lungs and several suspicious persons were arrested. In one of the houses uniforms, shoes , saddles, saddle bags, belts, first aid kits, underwear, and a cap were found. In addition, uniform sleeping accommodation for 20 persons were found in the house. The house was burned down. The arrested were set free after exact identification except for one woman."
The the report of the 23rd of August, excerpt 5, states that: "The 749th Infantry Regiment reports that on 22 August at 1400 hours, 2 Serbian Communists who were arrested on 21 August by police bearing arms were then shot to death by a detachment of the 3rd Battalion and then hanged by Serbs before the Garrison Headquarters. The order for the shooting to death was issued by the competent Administrative Subarea Headquarters."
Then on the 25th: "The Higher Command orders close cooperation with the Administrative Sub-area Headquarters and the District Headquarters as well as the Serbian Authorities and the Serbian Gendarmarie so as to prevent innocent people from being subjected to measures of revenge."
Then the next page: "The 749th Infantry Regiment has carried out Operation Pohevac. Three persons suspected of being Communists were arrested and will probably be shot to death. Two houses set on fire; report follows."
And the portion for 27 August recites that: "The 3rd Battalion, 749th Regiment with two companies has set abandoned houses on fire in Bukurevac (8 kilometers west of Kragujovac) also in Dronak,"it recites "The place of yesterday's attack by bands in which one 2nd Lieutenant and three men of the "Jagdkommando", 3rd Battalion, 749th Regiment were killed. One Technical Sergeant was severely wounded and one sergeant and one private were slightly wounded. It is on march to Marsic (6 kilometers northeast of Kragujovac) where parts of the band are allegedly."
And then the report of the 28th recites "two houses of Communists burned down" and that on the 27th of August: "The Kraljevo gendarmarie arrested a man with a box of hand grenades; he will be shot to death. One Kilometer west of Kraljeveo, two haystacks burned down by unknown perpetrators. The Communist leader Petrovic shot to death, his house set on fire, three inhabitants of the house on 27 August in Rigjage (5 kilometers west of Cacak) arrested and one sniper taken care of by "Jagdkommando", 3rd Battalion, 749th Regiment. The teacher's house (Communist) burned down."
And then it recites: "Telephone line Uzice (50 kilometers West of Cacak) out. Ovcarska railway bridge destroyed. One sergeant and a private shot to death on tour of guard on 28 August by the local headquarters security at Krusovac, as he did not answer the challenge. In Vrdil 4 men with arms arrested. One of them is the brother of of the band leader Vilotovic. Three will be shot to death and their houses burned down."
And then the 4th of September: "the "Jagdkommando" of the 1st Battalion, 749th Regiment, at Zagreb (yesterday's report) 3 September at 1600 hours; traces picked up, two Communists shot to death, one of our own wounded.