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O1 Der Reichsführer-# (1) Berlin S/ 11, 7 September 1944 - Adjutantur e Prinz-Albrecht-StrAtsterarnt Igb.No.Au0.I/2A/3472/44 K1. 11. SEP 1944 To all authorized i-services (distributor IV) Below you will be informed in writing of a letter from the state ninister and chief of the presidential chancellery on behalf of the ReichsFührer. AlMA -Sturmbannführer Copies State Minister and Chief Berlin W 8, 24 August 1944 of the Presidential Chancellery VoRstraße 4 4 RP.0.9660/44. Betr.: Award of the Kriezsverdienstkreuz and the war service medal to foreigners. The principle that the war merit and the military merit medal are not awarded to foreigners, soncers only to members of the Reich, has over time undergone a number of changes. In order to clarify the matter, I will give a list of the exceptions below: The Cross of War and the Medal of War can be awarded: 1) to those sworn in on the Firder, against them. in association with the German Wehrnacht fighting foreign volunteers; 2) to people Germans abroad, and also in such states with which we have diplomatic relations. A V : loan is, however, inadmissible to people of Germany who are in the indirect service of a foreign state or belong to its Nehrnacht; 3) to Alsässer, Lothringer, Luxemburger; 4) to protectorate members; 5) to members of the Baltic peoples (Esten, Letten, Lithuanian); 6) to relatives of Germanic people (Norweger, Danen, Niederlander, Flamen, Wallonen). ·Meissner Message to: Distributor V St.M.MA-27/44