Accused Of Murdering Many Thousands

Chronicle (Levin), 12 May 1947, Page 5

Accused Of Murdering Many Thousands

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Received Sunday, 8.30 p.m. LOXDOX, May 11. General Telford Taylbr, chief United States prosecutor, handed the Nuremberg War Criines Court the Allied indictment of twelve - German generals accused of murdering hundreds of thousands Of civilians in Greece, Yugoslavia Hiid Albania. The hccused are:-^— Field Marshal Withelm List, Supreme Commander' of the Twelfth Army from April 1941 to Oetober 1941. Field Marshal Maxmillian von Weichs, conimander-in-chief of the Balkans and Supreme Commander of the Second Army from April 1941 to Jiily 1942. Colonel-General Lothar Eendulic, Supreme Commander of the Second Panzer Army from August 1943 to June 1944 and Supreme Commander of the Twentietli Mountain Army from June 1944 to January 1945. Generai Walter Knooge, CommanderGeneral of the Twelfth Army from Oetober 1941 to August 1942. General Herniann Foertsch, Chief of St.aff of the Twelfth Army from May 1941 to. Angus»t 1942. General Franx Boehme, comm'ander of the Eighteenth Mountain Corps from April 1941 to Deeember 1941, later Commander-in-Chief in Norway and Comnianding General in Serbia from September A94l" to Deeember . 1941,. Supreme Commander of the Second Panzer Army from June 1944 to July L944, Supreme Commander of the Twentietli Mountain Army Group and commander of the Army Group in the North from Jgnuafy 1945 to May 1945. General Helmut Feimy/commander of the First Mountain Division from Oetober 1Q40 to January 1943. General Emst Dehner Commander of the Sixtvninth Army Reserve Corps

from August 1943 to Mareh 1944. General Emst von Leyser, Commander of the Fifteenth Mountain Army from November 1943 to July 1944. Luftwaffe General Wilhelm Speidel, Commander in Southern Greece from Oetober 1942 to September 1943, -military commander in Greece from September 1943 to July 1944. Major-General Kurt von Geitner, chief of staff with the Comnianding General in Serbia from July 1942 to August 1943. General Hubert Lanz, Commander ot the Mountain Division from Oetober 1940 to January 1943. Among the many doeuments submitted to the court was an order by Weichs demanding the execution of 100 Serbs as a reprisal for the death of a German soldier and the wounding oi two others. 1 The indietment alleges murder, ill* treat'xnent, deportation, slave labour, tlie plunder of publie and private property, the wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and the execution of hostages. General TayJor lists 23 specific instances where hostages were shot by the orders of the comnranders ii Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia. He alleged tliat Rendulic's Second Panzer Army raided Croat villages and liurned the Lnhabitants alive. Eendulic 's army group in Finland, before evacuating, burned homes, cliurehes, food and livestock, caused hundreds of persons to die from exposure and left 61,000 men, women and children homeless, starving and destitute. All the aeeused rouuded up civilians, kept them as hostages against acts of sabotage and terrorised others. Thousands of non-combatant.s were tortured and murdered as part oi a deliberate scheme of terror and. intimidation.