English Translation

2 The Minister of State Berlin W8, 24.0ktober 1942. and Head of the Presidential Chancellery Voßstraße 4 of the Führer and Chancellor of the Reich EINGEGANGEN RP.0.9252/42 8.0KT1942V 012621 I-3 Subject: Introduction of the provisions concerning the Cross of Honour of the World War in the Protëktorat Bohemia and Moravia. In the appendix I send in copy a letter of the High Command of the Wehrmacht from October 1, 1942 - 29_a_18.10 WZ (IIIc) - with the request for a pleasing 9242/42 notice. On the background to the request of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, I can tell you the following: W The Cross of Honour of the World War, after the reclassification of Austria and the Sudeten German territories as well as of the Memelland, was also there for the award, but my intention had not been achieved so far in the other new parts of the territory added to the German Reich for the presentation to the participants of the world war, who participated in this war on the German or Austrian side, since the Minister of the Interior repeatedly explained to me that Hwais could not provide Metellindai for the processing of the incoming requests during the current war. At my suggestion, the High Command of the Wehrmacht obtained an order from the Führer under June 30, 1942, that the award of the Cross of Honour of the World War should be carried out at least at Wehrmaschtsange= members of the Ge= newly affiliated during the war, who have participated in the world war on the German or Austrian side. With the implementation of these awards, the military services are Mr Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia Prague