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10a .eEer redmessd.Ap 14. December 1939. AES .8.0 st.s.3/334/39. An Olt n 15. XIIL-1938 Berlin. LAEDTASMgOE ASWe' Reichsführer! IdeiedBecause of the use of the General SS in the protection of works, disagreements have arisen with General Fride- ad rici, Prague. In the exercise of the protection of the works of the Wehrmacht, I have decided to leave the execution of the defence to the Wermacht insofar as the guard service is in question. The correspondence arising in the relevant matter should take your attention. I therefore make the correspondence in copy. The opinion of Friderici that the implementation of the works protection was a police matter and therefore, if the General SS were withdrawn, to use the police regiments and skull standars stationed in the Protectorate, I did not allow recognition. To this extent, my personal speaker, SS-Sturm-Bf eg bannführer Dr. Gies, negotiated with Friderići. In my answer to Friderici to this question- 48764 - 2 -