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

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25 Secret ! Immediately ! Druch G-Fernschreiber ! nentemeslla reh led 8eeb meb TP Prague, lo.October 1939. reb led eiwoa Vraa Tvaa a8 -elsel as alodfadre An ealtleaneges RFSS and head of the German police, nov Tereid eiw nrebnca HO CunE Loqonpp MLg Be r li noitamxol neeeth anubtedoetnd egldroioa m alemdoon ettid dol Reichsführer ! Ie1 t HILOH EUT adeja ELUK has just been notified to me by the Wehrmacht: .rexdüiebsaird-ea "Between the members of the government force of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and the German Wehr-nacht, 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. At the same time, I am asked to make a regulation for members of the SS, SSVT, SSTV and the police. Since the government force appears in uniform for the first time in the Protectorate at the l6.d.Mts., an immediate decision is necessary. With regard to the incisive effects of such a regulation, I would ask for your personal separation. I cannot imagine that the posts of the bodyguard "Adolf Hitler" are given to every passing Czech lieutenant of the government troupe or a train of the Libstandarte when marching past Hash-Eight-Stelung with eyes left ordered. I stand des elb ns dollans eduld edesina dogn ezsderdeaadsade mtelaeb udnadutba ELSUKTU ASLACUTEBENEDO)