English Translation

27 Copy to Rko 1654 D g The Reicha Commissar for the v Den Hasg, the 10th October 1944. occupied the lowland territories SA To the Oberaten Reichsverzeichnis. When the unbridled flight of the stage from the French and Belgian regions threatened to spread to the Netherlands, and in this area the united efforts of the German services maintained the order in such a way that the torment found the first lasting resistance here, some members of the german services in the Netherlands have been seized by this panic, among them - the number, however, of only a few - by the Reichs- - Commissariat, have left their service unordered and have fled to the Reich without any notification. As is customary in such cases, these persons, in order to cover their behaviour, have reported atrocious tales of the solution of the order of the service enterprise in the Netherlands. These people, having enjoyed the comforts of staying in the Netherlands for years, failed in the eyes of the parole and, moreover, by their behaviour in the kingdom, proved their pitiful attitude. I ask all the German services to appear to the former members of the Beichskommissariat without being able to identify the Presidential Department without any interruption, to hold it and to give me the name and address of my ministerial office, Berlin-Charlottenburg 9, Büsternallee 2a. I intend to place these persons before the German Supreme Court as a special court and to have them judged according to my decree on the condition of acceptance. In accordance with the transfer of duties resulting from the enemy attack at Arnheim and the building of a position, I transferred the focus of the administration to Apeldoorn while maintaining my office in The Hague. Here, if I am myself on inspection trips, is my general representative, the General Komaissar for Administration and Justice Dr. Dr. Wimmer, 0/0