among others in Paris, Bordeaux, and Nantes, as well
as at Châteaubriant.
In Holland many hundreds of hostages were shot at the following
among other places--Rotterdam, Apeldoorn, Amsterdam, Benschop, and
Haarlem
In Belgium many hundreds of hostages were shot during the period
1940 to 1944.
2. In the Eastern Countries:
At Kragnevatz in Yugoslavia 2,300 hostages were shot in October
1941.
At Kralevo in Yugoslavia 5,000 hostages were shot.
(E) PLUNDER OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE
PROPERTY
The defendants ruthlessly exploited the people
and the material resources of the countries they occupied, in order
to strengthen the Nazi war machine, to depopulate and impoverish the
rest of Europe, to enrich themselves and their adherents, and to
promote German economic supremacy over Europe.
The defendants engaged in the following acts and practices, among
others:
1. They degraded the standard of life of
the people of occupied countries and caused starvation, by stripping
occupied, countries of foodstuffs for removal to Germany.
2. They seized raw materials and industrial machinery in all of
the occupied countries, removed them to Germany and used them in the
interest of the German war effort and the German economy.
3 In all the occupied countries, in varying degrees, they
confiscated businesses, plants, and other property.
4. In an attempt to give color of legality to illegal
acquisitions of property, they forced owners of property to go
through the forms of "voluntary" and "legal"
transfers.
5. They established comprehensive controls over the economies of
all of the occupied countries and directed their resources, their
production and their labor in the interests of the German war
economy, depriving the local populations of the products of essential
industries.
6. By a variety of financial mechanisms, they despoiled all of
the occupied countries of essential commodities and accumulated
wealth, debased the local currency systems and disrupted