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SUPREME COMMAND OF THE ARMED FORCES
Berlin W 35 Tirpitzufer 72-75 10 October 1940.
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No. 1838/40 g.
Reference: Chief Supreme Command Armed Forces No. 3812/40 g WZ of 17 September 1940.
To: Supreme Army High Commander.
As supplement to the above-mentioned letter, addressed to the Military Administration of Occupied France, it is requested that corresponding directions be given also to the Military Administration in Belgium.
Chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces
By Order
Signed: REINECKE
For Information:
Attention Reichsleiter ROSENBERG's Adjutant.
Reference: 2606/ a.
Rosenberg's special purpose staff seal.
Certified true copy Berlin 15 December 1943
(Dr. Zeiss) '
Chief special purpose Staff.
Letter to the army high commander, extending the instructions to the military administration in France (regarding the legal status of materials collected by Rosenberg's staff) to the military administration in Belgium
Authors
Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshal, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces)
Wilhelm Keitel
German field marshal
- Born: 1882-09-22 (Helmscherode) (country: German Empire; located in the administrative territorial entity: Duchy of Brunswick)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg) (country: Allied-occupied Germany)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: military officer; military personnel; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Military rank: general field marshal
- Military branch: artillery
- VIAF ID: https://viaf.org/viaf/74027425
Hermann Reinecke (infantry general; army command staff; honorary judge, People's Court)
Hermann Reinecke
German general (1888-1973)
- Born: 1888-02-14 (Lutherstadt Wittenberg)
- Died: 1973-10-10 (Hamburg)
- Country of citizenship: Germany
- Occupation: judge; military officer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Participant in: Judges' Trial (date: 1947-04-29; role: affiant)
- Military rank: General of the Infantry
- Military branch: infantry
Date: 10 October 1940
Defendants: Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-139
HLSL Item No.: 451239
Notes:For the instructions concerning France, see document PS 138. The letter was signed for Keitel by Reinecke. This document was not entered as evidence.
Document Summary
PS-139: Order Keitel's to Chief of OKH