At Orel prisoners of war were exterminated by starvation, shooting,
exposure, and poisoning.
Soviet prisoners of war were murdered en masse on orders from the High
Command and the Headquarters of the SIPO and SD. Tens of thousands of
Soviet prisoners of war were tortured and murdered at the “Gross
Lazaret” at Slavuta.
In addition, many thousands of the persons referred to in paragraph VIII
(A) 2, above, were Soviet prisoners of war.
Prisoners of war who escaped and were recaptured were handed over to
SIPO and SD for shooting.
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 September 1941, 11,000 Polish officers who were prisoners of war were
killed in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk.
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.
(D) KILLING OF HOSTAGES
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 all civilized nations, the internal
penal laws of the countries in which such crimes were committed, and to
Article 6 (b) of the Charter.
Particulars by way of example and without prejudice to the production of
evidence of other cases, are as follows: