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55 --3n Within these limits they have the right and the Pilicht to assign to the local conditions according to restrictions. You can transfer this right to the Batl, commanders for their command area. The Confanieführer and cut-off and control officers have only in individual cases the right to cancel granted reliefs. V.OKW is aware that certain dangers are associated with the intended regulation (e.g. increased escapes). The more it will be necessary: a) by appropriate instruction of the persons concerned. (b) carefully select the "Komando leaders" and the "Konnando elders" to minimize these dangers. (c) by immediate intervention to prevent abuses, VI.Zun l.ll.l94l is to be reported OKW/Abt. Kriegsgef.: a which reliefs were granted b which experiences were spent Which proposals for possible further expansion dore n VII.The reliefs to be granted to the French must in no case be extended to Kr,Gef. of other nationalitüts. Distributes WKdo,I - XIII, XVII, XVIII, XX and XXI with NA for Asten and Solitary Camps as well as Kr.Gef.-Lazarette Luftgaukomando II, XI, KII with NA in the camps OKW/Amt Ausl,Abw. (Abw III) AWA/Insp.fir Kriegsgef. V.O.b/AwA/Kriegsgef,-Major von Rosenberg - Paris z.b.V. OKW (Min.-rat Passe) Avenue Kleber 46 Reichsführer H und Chef der Deutschen Polizei, . Berlin SW ll, 'Prinz-Albrechtstr, 8 Der Chef des Oberkomnandos d,Wehrmacht On behalf of Reineoke