Document Type
Court Document
Publication Date
6-17-1947
Keywords
Measures of reprisal, Hostages, Shot to death, Combating bands, Evacuation, Ruthless severity
Abstract
Evidence Document: NOKW 944 (Nuremberg High Command)
Title: "(Befehl des Komandanten der 369 (Croat.) Inf. Div.) Order by the C.G. of the of the 369 (Croat.) Inf. Div. Ic No 54/43 Top Secret. Regarding the combatting of bandits retaliation and evacuation measures. To: no distribution list. Signed by Neidholdt. 3 pages. Photostat."
Original Date: October 25, 1943
This document is a Top Secret 1943 order from the 369th Croatian Infantry Division outlining how German forces were to fight partisans using “ruthless severity,” executions, hostage‑taking, village destruction, and forced evacuations. It formalizes a system of reprisal killings, collective punishment, and anti‑partisan operations, including directives that certain captured fighters “are to be shot to death or hanged” and that up to 50 civilians could be executed in response to a single German casualty.
Recommended Citation
International Military Tribunal. "NOKW 944: Order by the C.G. of the of the 369 (Croat.) Inf. Div. Ic No 54/43 Top Secret. Regarding the combatting of bandits retaliation and evacuation measures" (1947). Nuremberg Transcripts. 132.
https://commons.und.edu/nuremburg-transcripts/132
NOKW 944 Transcript