STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 858, sig. 109-4/610

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// Copy! In the name of the Führer and Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht, I am lending the First Class War Cross with Swords to the Lieutenant General of the Police Paul R i ge. Führers Hauptquartier, January 30, 1943. (L.S.) ez. Keitel Generalfeldmarschall and Chief of the High Command of the German Armed Forces. F.d.R.dA.: Hauptmann d.Sch.uAd