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You Sign the Reprisal Request and Five Hundred People Die
A German general signs a reprisal permission slip in occupied Serbia that authorizes fifty civilian executions for every soldier killed - what would you do?
You Sign the Reprisal Request and Five Hundred People Die
In this episode, we follow the career and choices of Generalmajor Hartwig von Ludwiger and the paperwork that led to mass reprisals in occupied Serbia. The episode traces how institutional honors, promotions, and a bureaucratic permission transformed policy into action, and asks what happens when the system hands you authorization.
Person: Hartwig von Ludwiger
Date: born 29 June…
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