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outside of Gormtn; proper, grew in intensitys Allied
f .iers who parach xted to earth or who were shot down
i;i their planes bit reached the ground safely began
t> shcra the fa;e of ocsmnandoti and parachutists even
though Hitler's original order of 18 Oetote* 1942 had
exempted from the threat of eKterminatie x "aviators who
h;we bailed .out to save thuir lives duri ig «erial combat."
The participation of the Si or 3D took t >s -> passive
and activeo Acoo 'ding to the testimony rf nuthentio sources,,
a »acre; order ljy Hiirmler about the middie of 1944 prohi­
bited the polico fro« interfering w.th s.;iy outrages commit"
tod by the population against Allied fliars «fter landing.,
Tids order was interpreted by the regionxl )bief of the
S:'Po and SD as to mean thatc on the appearance of ©nemy
fjierso arrests w >re to be delayed ao that Sicilians could
a tack the fliers without affioial intervention In
audition, SS3 i e $ possible SDa members ee< : m to have been
given freedom to participate in the slaying of allied fliers
Substantial evidence is available to bee: uy these charges,- '
T See interroga • ion of RSSPt Benno Margin axd of Police
Councillor fc-si Teichiiann, CSS document CL 1114S
2 See statement «by HSSPf Benno Martin, 08S iooumßnt XL
11148,, concerning the killing of Aarri Ci:n airmnn by
German polioenenn See alto the case reported in OSS
#A 44351; als* the cas-s of Stichling , 0.-t»gruppenloitar
of Gernsbach,, on file **ith OSS (X2) 'JSTaimd ¥8. 15797""
4 July 1945; estimony of PW Hans Be ~th (3Hr7l717)
oitod in Report PM 000,5a 16 May 194i (under IS) on file
with WCCj roport by Lt, Col„ Stubble.isld based on
testimony by liajor Fr« Kirnbauer,, Burse"• Aid Lottie
TauberB and Chief Surgson Dr0 Ketsler, on file with 0SSc
#1413| report by Robert Perry on file wita 0SSs dooumsnt
01218.