“More than one thousand regular officers reported to the Chassée Barracks on 15 May 1942. The doors were closed after them. . . .”
Paragraph 7:
“A German officer of high rank came into the barracks and declared that the officers had not kept their word to undertake no action against the Führer and, as a result of this, they were to be kept in captivity. . . .”
The following paragraph states that “they were taken from the station at Breda to Nuremberg, in Germany.”
Numerous obstacles were placed in the way of the release of French prisoners of war who, for reasons of health, should have been sent back to their families. I shall quote a document already submitted under Exhibit Number RF-297 (Document Number F-417), Page 23 of your document book; and I read, Paragraph 1:
“The question of releasing French generals, prisoners of war in German hands, for reasons of health or age was taken up on several occasions by the French authorities.”
This reproduction of the stencil is not quite clear. I continue with Paragraph 2:
“So far as this question is concerned, the Führer has always refused to consider either their release or allowing them to be placed in hospitals in neutral countries.”
Paragraph 3:
“Today release or sending to hospitals is more out of the question than ever. . . .”