English Translation

25.gmg 19401 Liaison officer of the armed forces to the Wehrmacht authorized by the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. Betr.: Greeting relationship between Wehrmight and Waffen-i. To the The higher - and police leader Lord in Bohemiaand Moravia. A3 Wehrmascht authorised by the Imperial Protector Entrance on: 2 9. VI. 1940 Ann.: in Böhmen and Moravia, Führer Stabsf. flbt. Bearb. Prag XIX Freiherr von Stein-Platz 5. Occasionally my last lecture with the Wehrmacht authorized on 24.6.1940 was discussed, among other things, the question of the greetings between the Wehnmacht and the Arms and acknowledged the fact that H.Dv.131 in its last version of 1939 had gaps for the reasons set out below. The "weapon iy" created during the war no longer came to be called "uni-formed German organization", it is a part of the armed power of the Reich and, like the Wehrmacht, stands with large parts on the front, with other parts in occupied territories or as a replacement force and special formation in the homeland.Since the members of the weapons ioger Einstellung and their Vesen are to German soldiers and want to be treated as such also self-intelligible, can therefore no longer be spoken of as a "comradical greeting relationship" to the Vehrma power. On the contrary, a mutual duty to show honors and orders of honor has arisen, as they are laid down in the H Dv.131 towards their own superiors. In addition, it is particularly important to take account of the fact that field-grey uniform carriers of the Wehrmacht and the weapons with the same badges of a foreign population do not differ and that, as some examples prove, the existing comradely greeting relationship with Unterlasaunger