Evening star., 1946-08-18
By Nelson M. Shepord

Wy tNCISQH fVt. SUSpoiu
A mass of documentary evidence
from 1000 secret Nazi records testi-
flying to Germany's war guilt and
premeditated crimes against hui
manity was barred yesterday by
Justice Robert H. jackson, war
crimes prosecutor. in order to ban
ish all honest doubts, he said, that
the Nazis had planned it that
way"
Highlight of the initial records,
just published by the Government
Printing Office, is Hitler's top.
secret General Order No. Is of July
Is, 1910. to put England out of
the war by surprise" land-sea air
invasion across the channel. This
heretofore unpublished order de-
failing the entire plan for the
three -pronged invasion that Hitler
eventually called off, was omitted
from the official record at the trial
Of the 81 top-Nazi war criminals
before the Nuremberg tribunal. AS
a military order. solely, it was said
to have had no direct bearing on
Nazi plots of aggression and there
fore was not produced IN, evidence.
Other Secret military orders, how
ever. bearing directly on Nazi war
guilt included Hitler's carefully
laid plans for. double-crossing Rus
sia by a sneak attack. Also in
fcluded was a General Headquarters
scheme, as early as 1910. to seize
the Atlantic islands, 1t said, with
a view to the prosecution of a war
against America at later date"
These documents were inserted into
the Nuremberg record during the
! trial -
It&a.s So1 First in Series. %
The records revealed In their en-
tifety for the first time yesterday
are the first of a series of eight
documentary volumes compiled by
the War Crimes Commission staff a
short time after Justice Jackson's s
recent return from Neuernberg. To-
gether with the political documents
in support of Allied charges that
Hitler and his gang had plotted
world aggression and countless civil
crimes, they comprise an accumu-
lation of evidence illuminating
many dark corners of recent his
tory" the preface stated.
A month after Dunkerque. when
England was thought to be easy
prey, Hitler planned his so-called
operation Sea Lion" and outlined
the proposed channel crossing in
a three-page general order marked
top secret and for transmission
by officer courier only" So secret
was the proposed invasion that only
seven copies of the order were made.
The aim of this operation" Hit
lers original order read. 'is to elimi-
nate the English homeland as a
basis for the carrying on of the war
against Germany. and II it should
become necessary to occupy 1t COM
pletely.
t Plan Of Action.
ITO this end order the following ::
Il The landing must be carried
out in the form of a surprise cross
ing on o broad front approximate
ly from Ramsgate to the area west
of the Isle of Wight, in which air
force units will take the role of
artillery, and units of the Navy the
role of the engineers. Whether it
Is practical to undertake subordi-
nate actions, such as the occupa-
ton Of the Isle of Wight or of Coun-
ty Cornwall, before the general
landing is to be determined from
the standpoint of every branch OF
the armed forces and the result is
10 be reported to me. reserve the
decision for myself. The prepara-
ton for the entire operation must
be completed by mid-August.
20. To these preparations also
belong the creation of those condi-
tions which make landing in Eng
land possible.
"a. The English air force must
/ normally and actually be so far
overcome, that it does not any