The participation of Hitlerite generals of the very highest rank in the treacherous attack on Yugoslavia simply does not fit, in any way at all, into the execution of purely military tasks only.
I shall read one more document into the records, Document Number 1195-PS. You will find it in your document book on Page 423.
On 9 January 1946 four lines were read here from the second section. The time has now come to read it in full:
“Copy. Supreme Command of the Armed Forces, Operational Staff, Section L, (IV/QU), Number 00630/41; top secret, commanders only; Führer’s headquarters, 12. 4. 1941.
“Reference: OKW/L, (IV/QU), Number 4434/41; top secret, commanders only, of 3 April 1941.
“Provisional Directives for the Partition of Yugoslavia.
“I. The Führer has issued the following directions for the partition of Yugoslavia:
“1) Former territory of Styria and Carniola.
“The territory of the former Styria, extended to the south by a strip of about 90 kilometers in breadth and 10 to 15 kilometers in depth, will go to Gau Styria.
“The northern part of Carniola, with a borderline running south only as far as the river Sava but north of Ljubljana, according to the attached OKH map, is to become part of Carinthia.