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that we received our deployment orders and that was all. Of course,
we had to deal operationally with this deployment order. We were not allowed to
transmit 100 percent of this deployment order. I received all the deployment
order from the chief of the army group, I received 100 percent knowledge of it,
but I was not allowed to divulge all the order to lower echelons, but had to
split it up, as it were.
Q. No, you were not permitted to divulge it,
but you certainly, after looking at this, would say that every operational
measure planned concerning this invasion was within your knowledge.
A.
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3. THE OFFENSIVE IN THE SOUTHEAST AND EAST
a. Greece and Yugoslavia |
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PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT 2719-PS¹ |
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PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 1171 |
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DECREE ISSUED BY STATE SECRETARY OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE TO GERMAN
DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS, 28 APRIL 1938
Decree |
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| Berlin, 28 April 1938 |
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| As a result of the reunion of Austria with the Reich we have gained
new frontiers with Italy, Yugoslavia, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Hungary.
These frontiers will be regarded by us as inviolable. In this respect the
following special declarations have been made: |
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| 3. Yugoslavia |
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| The Yugoslav Government has been informed by authoritative German
circles that German policy had no aims beyond Austria and that the Yugoslav
frontier would in no case be affected. The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor then
said in his speech in Graz on 3 April of this year that Yugoslavia and Hungary
had taken the same attitude as Italy towards the reunion of Austria. We
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¹ See Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression,
op. cit. supra, vol. V, pp. 378-380, for more complete translation of document.
² Extracts from a speech by Hitler on 1 June 1939 (TC-92, Pros. Ex.
1172), on the occasion of a dinner in honor of the Prince Regent of Yugoslavia,
are not reproduced herein. Ibid., vol. VIII, pp. 536-537.
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