STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1941, sig. 109-6/33

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- Location Commander Prague Prague, September 21, 1940. 78 Betr.: Honorary monument of the unknown Czech soldiers. Reference: There.Write of September 20, 1940, Appendix: 1 Act. Mr. Oberregierungsrat, -Obersturmbannführer Dr. G i e s , Pra g IV, Czernin-Palais. I present the file sent to me this morning with regard to the duty of greeting before the memorial of the unknown soldier, and I attach a Mekrblatt, from whose paragraph 12 the prohibition of greetings for all W-men at the Prague site is stated. The leaflet was issued in this version on 14.5.1940 and is in the possession of every man of the Waffen-H. 00084 Herl Hitler Mn Saannt and location commander. Nachsatz: I can still find the location order no. 46 of 25.11.1939, in which in paragraph 2 for the first time there is talk of the memorial on the Old Town Square and in which the deletion of a number of the then valid leaflet is ordered.Unfortunately the still existing leaflets of the time were stamped recently. H-Standartenführer.