Office of the Historian

740.0011 E.W./9–2144: Telegram

Mr. Alexander C. Kirk, United States Political Adviser on the Staff of the Supreme Allied Commander, Mediterranean Theater (Wilson), to the Secretary of State

Caserta, September 21, 1944—midnight.
[Received September 22—8:26 a.m.]

484. My 324, September 7, midnight, second paragraph. On instructions from SACMED member of Maclean’s Mission recently interviewed Tito16 with view to obtaining latter’s agreement to application of principles governing surrender of Germans recently enunciated by CCS. Tito fully agreed and is issuing instructions to his corps commanders accordingly. It is reported that he proposes to place Germans surrendering in concentration camps for road work in Yugoslavia.

Kirk
  1. Marshal Josip Broz-Tito, Commander of the Yugoslav National Army of Liberation, and President of the National Committee of Liberation of Yugoslavia.↩