English Translation

35 Home Guidelines for the Case of Enemy Threat Although an enemy threat in the Protectorate is not current at the moment, any civil administration official in charge must already know what factual duties and personal duties are incumbent on him and his subordinates in this case. I give the following precautions: 1) Even if the Protectorate should become an operational area in whole or in part, the civil administration will remain in full control. The normal competence and insinuation of both the Reich authorities and the autonomous departments will not change. Only in the battle zones, whose limitation the military commander determines in consultation with me, are the upper military command authorities authorized to give direct instructions for the execution of their combat assignment civilian services. As a combat zone a battle strip of 20 to 30 km depth is usually considered. 2) In the area of operation, but above all in the combat zone, all civilian services have to maintain close contact with the military service. The supreme principle of all services is to increase the impact of the fighting force. Differences of opinion are to be compensated comradely and locally. In cases of doubt, my decision must be made in the shortest possible way. 3) On the part of the Wehrmacht, according to an order of the chief of the OKW x ), the commanding powers of the authorized Wehrmascht and the command over the Bohemian and Moravian Wehrmaren Wehrskreis are transferred only in the combat zone to the High Command of the Army Group; in the other operating area, the competence of the authorised Wehrman and the subordinate departments remain unaffected. 4) To inform the troops transferred to the Protectorate, use the attached troop note, whose principles also apply in the area of operation.