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destruction
of foodstuffs and fodder) are discovered
looting wounded or dead soldiers and
thereupon shot.
"Sixth:
Captured Czech soldiers or Czech
civilians are detailed to do road work
or to load munitions, and so forth.
"Seventh: For military
reasons it is necessary to requisition
billets, foodstuffs, and fodder from the
Czech population. As a result, the
latter suffer from want.
"Eighth:
Czech population is, for military
reasons, compulsorily evacuated to the
rear area.
"Ninth:
Churches are used for military
accommodations.
"Tenth:
In the course of their duty, German
aircraft fly over Polish territory where
they are involved in an air battle with
Czech aircraft."
From
Nuremberg on the 10th of September, Hitler
issued an order bringing the Reichsarbeitsdienst
(the German Labor Service) under the OKW. This
top-secret order . . .
THE PRESIDENT:
Are you passing from that document now?
MR.
ALDERMAN: Yes.
THE PRESIDENT: Would
you read the classification with reference to
gas?
MR. ALDERMAN: Perhaps I should,
Sir.
THE PRESIDENT: It is number 4.
MR. ALDERMAN: Incident number 4?
THE
PRESIDENT: Yes.
MR. ALDERMAN: Well,
number 4 was the supposed incident. "On
account of a report that the Czechs have used
gas, the firing of gas projectiles is ordered."
Under the column, "Attitude of
International Law Group":
"According
to the declaration agreed to in June
1925 by 40 states, including
Czechoslovakia, the employment of poison
gases, chemical warfare agents, and
bacteriological substances is expressly
forbidden. Quite a number of states made
the reservation to this declaration on
the prohibition of gas warfare."
Then,
under the column headed "Justification by
the Laws of War":
"If
the assertion, that the opponent —
in this case the Czechs — used a
prohibited gas in warfare, is to be
believed by the world, it must be
possible to prove it. If that is
possible, the firing of gas projectiles
is justified, and it must be given out
in public that it can be proved that the
enemy was the first to violate the
prohibition. It is therefore
particularly