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19 Abeohrift. Chief Gen. Stab d.Heeres O.U. den ... (C Beham Hr. II/2200/44 gKdos. F T08 Preservation and ARLz measures on the civil sector in the area of the Eastern Fortresses. Reference-The Chief GenStdH/Op.Abt.(Fest) No.1l 889/44 glbs. v.1l.1l.1944. According to the given orders, the fortress commander with his military honour is liable for the fulfilment of his duties. He has to keep the fortress at all costs. In order to achieve this goal, he has been ordered to ensure the cooperation of all the civil and military services in the field of eastern fortresses, taking full advantage of all possibilities of pestilence for the defence of the oq, taking into account the responsibility of the fortress command for the holding of the fort and for the motivating of the force. Ordered I. by OKH/GenStdH/ GenQu. l. It is immediately necessary between Wehzkreis commander, the Gaulier and the Rv commissioner to determine how much and which civil population in the fortresses is required to solve the task of the fortress commander, which population may remain or must still be included. These findings must be reported to OKH / GenStdh/GenQu. 2. In addition to the stockpiling ordered so far, the arming of each fortress must be sought in such a way that the people's storm and all men who, according to the situation in the fortress, as a carrier of arms can be equipped by the party chancellery (see also Appendix 1): 1. The head of the Party-Kanslei appoints an agent for direct cooperation with GenStdH/GenQu. 2. The responsible Gauleführer appoints for the pestilences to end in the gau and to pre-empt a fortress which is responsible for the political concerns, the extra-occupational use of the population, the personnel evacuation and the cooperation with the Qu des Wehrkreises and with the managing authority of the RV Kommiasar.