According to press reports, the Anglo-Americans intend for the future, as a reprisal action against “V 1,” to attack from the air also small places without any economic or military importance. If this information is true, the Fuehrer desires publication through radio and press that any enemy airman who participates in such an attack and is shot down during it cannot claim to be treated as a prisoner of war, but will be killed as soon as he falls into German hands. This measure is to apply to all attacks on smaller places, which are not military, communications, nor armament objectives, etc., and which accordingly have no significance from the point of view of the war.
For the time being, no measures are to be taken, but only to be discussed between the armed forces and the Foreign Office.
- TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NG-364
- PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 108
SECRET CIRCULAR FROM MARTIN BORMANN TO NAZI PARTY LEADERS, 30 MAY 1944, CONCERNING “PEOPLE’S JUSTICE AGAINST ANGLO-AMERICAN MURDERERS”
German National Socialist Workers’ Party
Party Chancellery
The Chief of the Party Chancellery
Fuehrer’s Headquarters, 30 May 1944
[Stamp] 9 June 1944
[Stamp] Secret