English Translation

21 Print from the newsletter of the management of the international organization of the NSDAP, episode 2, 9th year, Berlin, April 30, 1942. War graves abroad. The Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorgung, which, after the end of the World War 1914/18, had set itself the task of designing the cemeteries of the fallen German soldiers in the country to honorable memorials that correspond to the dignity and nature of the German people, has made itself available to the High Command of the Wehrmacht with its entire organization at the beginning of the present war. From the OKW, the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorgung received the order to fulfill the wishes of the relatives regarding the laying down of wreaths and the procurement of photographs to and from the resting places of their fallen. He has either set up his own representatives in the services occupied by our troops or has carried out his assignments in close cooperation with the services of the Party, the Wehrmacht and the civilian administrations in place. It is a duty of the NSDAP's foreign organizations to honour the fallen heroes of the Great German freedom struggle, to actively promote the activities of the representatives of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorgung and to support them within the scope of all available possibilities. Berlin, 20 April 1942. gez. K. Blankenhorn. R-0189