General Alexander Löhr reacted with disgust describing the Italians as weak.[32] He wrote an angry communique to Hitler saying the "implementation of the Croatian government's laws concerning Jews is being so undermined by Italian officials that in the coastal zone—particularly in Mostar, Dubrovnik, and Crikvenika—numerous Jews are protected by the Italian military, and other Jews have been escorted across the border to Italian Dalmatia and Italy itself".[33] The Wehrmacht murdered the Jews of Serbia from mid 1941.