STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 162, sig. 109-2/64

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0S p) the Chief of the Province of East Prussia - civil administration for the district Bialystok- in Königsberg/Fr., q) the Commander of the Security Police and SD in Krakow, r) the Commandant of the security police and SD of Riga, s) the commander of the safety police and the SD of Riew, message to the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior in Munich, the Säshsische Ministry of Interior in Dresden, the Reiohsstatthalter der Reichsgaue Sudetenland in Reichenberg, Fanzig-Westpreußen in Danzig, Wartheland in Poznan, the Prussian Supreme President, the City President of the imperial capital Berlin. Reference: My decree of 27 August 1942 - S II B 2 1r. 2801/43-485. Subject: Fees for issuing transit tickets; here: Free of charge for Italian nationals. At the request of the Federal Foreign Office and in agreement with the Reich Ministry of Finance, I request that the district police authorities and, to the extent that other authorities in the peripheral regions of the Great German Reich are responsible for issuing transit certificates (see "Collection of the applicable passport regulations" Decrees No. 35,36,39,41 and 45), to give these authorities immediately the following instructions: "The decree of the Reichsführer-ff and chief of the German police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior to all district police authorities of 27 August 1942 - S II B 2 No. 2880/42- 435, for the purposes of collecting fees for the issue of pass-through certificates, is not applicable to Italian nationals for reasons of proportionality. Subsequently, from now on, Italian nationals are required to issue pass-over certificates and for the supplementary note to be endorsed, which replaces the pass-out certificate_(see "Collection" Er- Cher 06916 Ordered by: e.g. 1 5 W1 e 2 certified: - uE S 4 rimmer - alirg Bugoleten Mn crium