Two days later, South Tyrol, Trentino and Belluno came under German control as the Operational Zone of the Alpine Foothills (Operationszone Alpenvorland, OZAV).

[6] All men born in 1924 and 1925 were drafted into the Todt Organization, Südtiroler Ordnungsdienst [de] (SOD), Trento Security Corps [it] (CST), Ordnungspolizei, or into the Wehrmacht or Waffen-SS.

[7] The forced recruitment of the Dableiber and the harsh punishment dolled out against draft evaders, as was the case for Franz Thaler, violated Articles 44, 45, and 46 of the Hague Convention of 1899 to which Germany was a signatory.

[12] I Battalion, composed of 900 men under the command of Major Oskar Kretschmer,[13] was sent to Istria, then in the Operational Zone of the Adriatic Littoral (Operationszone Adriatisches Küstenland, OZAK), in February 1944.

[15] On 5 April 1944, I Battalion embarked on Operation Bozen in the area of Brnčići [hr], near Kastav, resulting in the razing of the village of Gornji Turki.

[16] On 30 April, German troops of the 278th Infantry and 188th Reserve Mountain Divisions,[17] and the 24th Waffen-SS Karstjäger,[18] razed the village of Lipa and killed its 263 inhabitants.

[17] Croatian researcher Petra Predoević found that some testimonies and archival data implicated the Bozen Regiment, whose attack by Yugoslav partisans had been the cause of the Lipa massacre.

The escapees from Kötschach-Mauthen that made it home were required to appear at the "Vittorio-Veneto" barracks in Bolzano, arrested, put under surveillance, and transferred to Rimini and then to Taranto.

South Tyrolean historian Leopold Steurer [de] noted that the battalion, and the Bozen Regiment by extension, became infamous for its brutality in Belluno.

[30] After being captured, Wolff stated that III Battalion had been made available to Albert Kesselring upon his request to conduct police duties in Rome and to protect the Vatican.

[5] Members of III Battalion, some of whom were Ladins and spoke German poorly, did not receive leave and were forbidden from interacting with Romans or attending church.

Italian historian Lorenzo Baratter [it], author of several works on the South Tyrolean police regiments, noted the frequency and repetition of this error.

[33] American journalist Robert Katz erroneously supported the idea of the battalion being part of the Waffen-SS in his work on the attack, Death in Rome.