mistreated in numerous Stalags in Germany and in the occupied countries, particularly in 1943, 1944, and 1945.

2. In the Eastern Countries: At Orel prisoners of war were exterminated by shooting, exposure, and poisoning.




Frenchmen fighting with the Soviet Army who were captured were handed over to the Vichy Government for "proceedings".

In March 1944, 50 R.A.F. officers who escaped from Stalag Luft III at Sagan, when recaptured, were murdered.


In Yugoslavia the German Command and the occupying authorities in the person of the chief officials of the Police, the SS troops (Police Lieutenant General Rosener) and the Divisional Group Command (General Kübler and others) in the period 1941-43 ordered the shooting of prisoners of war.


Throughout the territories occupied by the German Armed Forces in the course of waging aggressive wars, the defendants adopted and put into effect on a wide scale the practice of taking, and of killing, hostages from the civilian population. These acts were contrary to international conventions, particularly Article 50 of the Hague Regulations, 1907, the laws and customs of war, the general principles of criminal law as derived from the criminal laws of a]l civilized nations, the internal penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed, and to Article 6 (b) of the Charter.


1. In the Western Countries:

In France hostages were executed either individually or collectively; these executions took place in all the big cities of France,