English Translation

Annex 1 Guidelines for the implementation of the Civil Administration _im_Operational Area. I. In order to assist the Wehrmacht in the exercise of force, the army groups or their commanders-in-chief are attached to the civil administration. They are not intended to carry out the administration in the operational area themselves, but only to supervise the land-based administration in operation area. The individual army corps in the field of army groups have been assigned liaison officers of the Cdz (chief of the corps administration). The head of the civil administration is the organ of the commander-in-chief. In it, the entire civil administration unites, avoiding any division of any kind of technical or other kind. To it are attached advisers and clerks of the individual places and administrative branches, which he provides with Veisungen. His general representative is the staff leader. , who in case of obstruction of the CdZ has the same powers as this itself. II. The state government in the operating area exercises its own administration in accordance with the existing state laws within the limits imposed on it by military violence and according to the instructions of the head of the civil administration. It uses the district main teams and the existing specialized authorities as well as the municipal authorities for this purpose. All measures and immediate effects of the execution of the violence have been removed. III. The head of the civil administration has a right of instruction towards the state government and the state authorities. The state government is obliged to announce laws and regulations to the head of civil administration before announcement. The district governors and the specialized authorities of the country are assisted and supervised by the Oberlanderraten, the municipal authorities, if necessary,