English Translation

29 A b s c h r i f t of R copy Der Chef Berlin W 35, den 22.Aug.1 des Oberkonmandos der Wehrmscht Tirpitzufer 72-76 A2.55225/26AVA/S(_Ia ) Nr. 11381/42 Betr.: Visits of representatives of higher staff and party posts in the occupied territories. To the Minister of the Reich and head of the Chancellery B_erlin W 8 ostraße 6. Recent preliminaries give mix cause to ask you most devotedly to embezzlement the Reich's ministers and higher Reich authorities on the following. In recent times it has been variously pre-arranged that traitors from the Supreme Reich authorities and higher economic leaders have entered the occupied territories without the competent military commander or commander having been aware of the visit by the local higher authorities. Hiereus has in part arisen indistinguishable circumstances which should have been avoided in the event of an immediate detention with the responsible local commander. In particular, the Reichsminister der Luftfahrt and Cberbelehleheber of the Luftwaffe also asks that the relevant Luftgau komiandos be orientated in the occupied areas when Fersünlichkeiten visit fully equipment operations of the Air Force in the Occupied Territories. The same request be made to the Reich and Gauleiter I have directed the head of the party chancellery. The head of the High Command of the Wehrmacht, K e i t e l TXC-M/42