English Translation

0f copy. Der Führer und Oberste Kommandant Berlin, the 1l.1.1940. der Wehrmacht. Basic order. 1. No one: No department, no officer may know of a secret matter if they do not necessarily have to be informed of it. 2. No department or officer may learn more from a classified matter than is strictly necessary for the performance of its task. 3. No department and no officer shall be allowed to learn from a secret object which is required for the purpose of carrying out its tasks. 4. The mindless passing on of orders, whose secrecy is of crucial importance, according to any general my distribution key is forbidden. gez.Adolf Hitler. F.d.R.D.A.. Gez.Bartfeld. -Obersturmführer. For the correctness of the transcription: 4-Oberstturmfänger and Adjutant.