English Translation

148 - 3 - IV. In the case of deaths in home hospitals, the following procedure must be followed: a) If the deceased belongs to a part of his home country or to a replacement part of the territory, and to a department located in the home country, the latter arranges the donation of the wreath and the military assistance, as well as the transfer in consultation with the hearers, the hospital and the site elders. b) If the deceased does not yet belong to a home country, In case of burial at the place of death, the hospital shall arrange for wreath donation and, if the place where the death is located, for the site-oldest military burial; 2.) in case of transfer to a troop location: procurement of wrench donation and military burial by the site's oldest burial place; 3.) in the case of transfers to a location without troop burial or to a non-site: procurement: the wreary donation. If, in accordance with paragraph 3 above, the person to be transferred has died of the consequences of a war wound or of an illness in the field, or of the episode of an accident inflicted on him in the box, the address of the family members shall be at the same time communicated to the local authority of the NSDAP. the local group of the Nazi Reichskrie at the place of employment by the hospital to ask for the appointment of an honorary delegation for burial; in this case the department (Gliederun, Verband) of the NSDAP. or the local community of the National Reichskriegerbund has the priority to which the deceased belonged or with which he was particularly connected. V. 1.) OKW No. 2928/38 WH III v.11.1o.38, concerning obituaries, in the case of the death of members of the Wehrmacht (published HV Bl.39 Part B 1fd. No. 2, MV Bl.1938 ifd.No. 799, LV B1.1938 Part A1fd, No. 32o),