THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1909, sig. 109-6/1

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10 X. 39 17-- 04 ini om Druch G-Fernschreiber ! Prague, October 1939. L FS. To FS 27885 RFSS and head of the German police, Be_rlin. Reichsführer ! The Wehrmacht authorised representative has just informed me of the following order for the Wehrmascht: "Between the members of the government troops of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the German Wehr-macht, the mutual duty of greeting was established. It is requested that this be communicated to the signed departments with the requirement that the provision laid down in the local authority regulation on the honours of individuals, closed abbeys and the general duty of greeting be amended as from 1.9. In 1939, the members of the government force of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia entered into force." At the same time, I am asked to make a regulation for members of General SS, SSVT, SSTV and the police. appears in uniform for the first time in the Protectorate, an immediate decision is necessary• With regard to the drastic effects of such a regulation, I ask for your personal decision. I can't imagine that the posts of the bodyguard "Adolf Hitler" will show honor to every passing Czech lieutenant of the government troupe or receive a train of bodyguard while marching past Haste-Eight-Stelung ordered with eyes left. I stand dis-