NĚMECKÉ STÁTNÍ MINISTERSTVO PRO ČECHY A MORAVU, PRAHA (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 369, sig. 110-4/215 Page 20 · 20 of 23
GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 369, sig. 110-4215
English Translation
V. In the case of the body of an English pilot shot down, an armband with a "Deutsche Wehrmacht" and a valid stamp was found. This armband is carried only by combatants and gives the carrier access to military and strategically important points everywhere in the various areas of operation. Defeated hostile agents will probably make use of this new cover. VI. Individual cases of the last months have shown that the German population arrests enemy pilots, but then does not keep the corresponding distance towards them until delivery to the police or Wehrmacht. Too hard state police measures against these people would prevent them from using themselves unreservedly in the case of the arrest of enemy aircraft, especially since these cases should not be changed with the crime of supporting fleeting enemy aircraft. Reichsführer-f has ordered the following measures against comrades of the people who, for evil intent or wrongly understood compassion, behave insolently against captured enemy planes: 1.) In particularly harsh cases, admission to a concentration camp. 2.) In lighter cases, protective detention not under 1 4 days at the competent state police station. Use to clean up damage if: