English Translation

M Eh Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Berlin W35, 5.11. 1940. 2 f 12.10 WR (III/11) Tirpizufer 72-76 14 848/40 g. ADES Telesprecher: Drtsverkehr 218191 Fernverkeistung 21 80 91 (Please indicate the date and short Znhait in the answer above) To the Federal Foreign Office BerlinW8 - Wilhelmstrasse 74/76. MT.b.8 Betr.: 5 captured English pilots. M WeK Reference: R 1325 g of 28.10.40. Message: AWA/Kriegsgef., 9I/3m19 A Ausl/Abw (Ausl), Heichskriegsgericht zu St.P.L. (RKA) I 905/40. Mr. Reichsprotektor in Bohemia u.Mähren, p A bter Mr. Wehrmacht authorized by the Reichspretector in Bohemia & Moravia, Prague. The captured planes - it is 4, not 5 - are in custody at the Wehrmascht investigation prison in Berlin. They are accused of serving as members of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia during the war in an enemy armed forces (§ 9la RStGB). O It may be asked that the Sohutzmacht temporarily do so. In the event of indictment, the usual notification shall be made. The second part of the letter there, according to which these pilots were not to be counted as prisoners of war, to which the care of the United States as a protective force was extended, because they had worn narrow uniforms in their capture, but were not British nationals under the laws in force at the beginning of the war, cannot be acceded. Every warring state can enter its Wehrmacht as a volunteer, who it wants; nationality does not matter. If such Wehrmecht members fall into torment, they are real warmen.