GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 859, sig. 110-7/21

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3 Notes on the letter of Luftgau Command VIII to the Commander-in-Chief of the Marine Group in mid-February 14, 1945. 1H/2 The request addressed to Mr. General Oberst Schörner is against the orders issued by the OkW in respect of the territorial command powers granted to the Wehrmacht authorised to the entire air force within the Protectorate, with the exception of the Flying Associations and the Flakartillerie, as long as they are in action against air targets. These orders were issued by OkW, because the command = powers over diavhuft weapon in protectorate went out from the various air force stations and infol= could not, however, be brought to a uniform denominator. It was not easy to achieve one-way guidance within = half of the Luftwaffe's protectorate against the air force a) in all preparations for the mobilization of the Air Force (Gneisenau) b) in the unity of defence measures within the locations and c) a unity of possible warfare and d) in setting up combat and alarm units. These substantively necessary powers of the Wehrmacht