9 February 1944 Part 2

9 February 1944 Part 2 Army courts including the 319th Infantry Division branch

The statistics are army-wide totals, not figures for the Channel Islands alone. The source’s stated average is retained.

Secret. Seventh Army Headquarters, Army Judge. Registry No. 22/44 Secret. Army headquarters, 9 February 1944. To Personnel Section IIa. Three annexes.

Activity report for January 1944. Figures in brackets are those for the previous month.

During the reporting month the army had 12 (12) courts, including one branch office—the 319th Infantry Division.

A total of 521 (489) criminal cases were instituted.

According to the attached summary of concluded criminal proceedings, 374 (328) cases, and a further 12 (17) against members of the Eastern troops, were finally disposed of during the reporting month.

Convictions were recorded in 249 (194) cases, including one death sentence for desertion, which was commuted to penal servitude by an act of clemency.

There were acquittals in 6 (8) cases.

Proceedings were discontinued in 119 (123) cases.

The monthly average per court was 28.2 (27.3) finally disposed-of criminal cases.

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German Seventh Army Headquarters (AOK 7), NARA T-312 Roll 1566. Roll 1566 Jersey and Channel Islands English translations.docx, reference 16. T312-1566.pdf, PDF page 714. PDF pages count from the first page of the supplied file.