English Translation

It is possible to place one's own troops, a great part of the fallen must also be led as missing. In order to clarify the individual cases, the details of the missing persons' report, investigations by comrades, medical personnel and various evidence points of the Wehrmacht will be used, and a file will be kept at the Land Office and the Presidium of the German Red Cross. In the area of the country's office, the research activities for Stalingrad, but above all for Tunis combatants, were inexhaustible. With regard to the investigations on other war sites /with the exception of the Soviet-Russian/missed, the investigation is easier, because the English and Americans adhere to the Geneva Convention. The Convention on POWs and of them are regularly sent to the Presidium of the German Red Cross communications on the ICRC in Geneva concerning prisoners of war. Further tasks of the state research service include the participation in the care of prisoners of war with regard to mail and postal parcel transport and the supply of books, especially for further vocational training through advice to relatives, etc., and the care within the framework of the prisoner of war study aid. Similar things also take place with regard to the civilian internees. Finally, the service is also still mediation place during correspondence with non-internees relatives in the enemy country. In addition, assistance is also provided in search applications for non-military persons, in particular from the former Russian and Ukrainian territory, which are often led by the German Red Cross. Niovi r/s