The sense of this seems to be that if they were not lynched under the first scheme, by the crowd, then they were to be kept from prisoners of war, where they would be subject to the protecting power’s intervention. And if the suspicion was confirmed, they would be handed over to the SD to be killed.
The conference reached a decision on what would be regarded as justifying lynch law:
“At a conference with Colonel von Brauchitsch, representing the C-in-C, Air Force, on the 6th of June, it was settled that the following actions were to be regarded as terror actions justifying lynch law:
“Low-level attacks with aircraft armament on the civilian population, single persons as well as crowds.
“Shooting our own men in the air who had bailed out.
“Attacks with aircraft armament on passenger trains in the public service.
“Attacks with aircraft armament on military hospitals, hospitals, and hospital trains, which are clearly marked with the Red Cross.” (735-PS)
These were to be the subject of lynching and not, as Ribbentrop had suggested, the case of the bombing of a city.
In the latter part of this report there occurs a somewhat curious comment from Keitel:
“If one allows the people to carry out lynch law, it is difficult to enforce rules!