Text: English     International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 3, p. 89
		3 Dec. 45 It is signed by Adolf Hitler and authenticated by Defendant Keitel It was distributed to the OKH, to Defendant Göring's Luftwaffe, and to Defendant Raeder at Navy headquarters. Two months later, on 17 December 1938, Defendant Keitel issued an appendix to the original order, stating that by command of the Führer preparations for the liquidation of Czechoslovakia are to continue. I offer in evidence Document C-138 as Exhibit USA-105, and other captured OKW documents classified top secret. Distribution of this order was the same as for the 21 October order. I shall read the body of this order. "Corollary to Directive of 21. 10. 38. "Reference: 'Liquidation of the Rest of Czechoslovakia.' The Führer has given the following additional order: "The preparations for this eventuality are to continue on the assumption that no resistance worth mentioning is to be expected. "To the outside world too it must clearly appear that it is merely an action of pacification, and not a warlike undertaking. "The action must therefore be carried out by the peacetime Armed Forces only, without reinforcements from mobilization. The necessary readiness for action, especially the ensuring that the most necessary supplies are brought up, must be effected by adjustment within the units. "Similarly the units of the Army detailed for the march in must, as a general rule, leave their stations only during the night prior to the crossing of the frontier, and will not previously form up systematically on the frontier. The transport necessary for previous organization should be limited to the minimum and will be camouflaged as much as possible. Necessary movements, if any, of single units and particularly of motorized forces, to the troop training areas situated near the frontier, must have the approval of the Führer. The Air Force should take action in accordance with the similar general directives. For the same reasons the exercise of executive power by the Supreme Command of the Army is laid down only for the newly occupied territory and only for a short period." — Signed — "Keitel." I invite the attention of the Tribunal to the fact that this particular copy of this order, an original carbon signed in ink by Keitel, was the one sent to the OKM. the German Naval headquarters. It 89
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