THE PRESIDENT: I see that it may be useful for the record. It is in the document book on the extermination of innocent populations, on Page 167.
M. DUBOST: I thank you, Mr. President. Are then these patriots, who were consequently considered by the German Army as constituting regular troops, treated as soldiers? No.
The order of Falkenhausen is proof thereof. They were either to be killed on the spot—and, after all, that is the fate of a combatant—or else delivered to the Sipo, to the SD, and tortured to death by these organisms, who dispensed with any legal formalities, as is shown by Document 835-PS, which has already been submitted under Number USA-527, and also by Document F-673, Page 6 in your document book, which we submit under Exhibit Number RF-392.
Document Number F-673 is a considerable bundle of papers which comes from the archives of the German Commission at Wiesbaden, and we are submitting it in its entirety under Exhibit Number RF-392. Whenever we refer to Document F-673, it will be one of the documents in this big German book.
“Letter from the Führer’s headquarters, 18 August 1944, 30 copies; copy 26; top secret.
“Subject: Combatting terrorists and saboteurs in occupied territories . . . . 2. Jurisdiction over non-German civilians in occupied territories.
“1) Enclosed herewith”—says the writer of this letter—“we are transmitting a copy of the order of the Führer of 30 July 1944. . . .”
This order of the Führer will be found on Page 9 of your document book. Paragraph 3.