CHIEF OF THE SUPREME COMMAND OF
THE ARMED FORCES.
Signed: Keitel
Distribution: II.
[ITEM 32] [Typescript]
[Stamp]
Office of the Armed Forces
Adjutant attached
To the Fuehrer and
Reich Chancellor
Recd. 3 Oct 1938
Reg. No. 259/38 Most Secret
[pencil note] Adjutant to the Fuehrer
Supreme Command of the Armed Forces
No. 2288/38 Most Secret WFA/L II
MOST SECRET
Berlin, 27 Sept. 1938
Subject: Mobilization Measures
To: The Deputy Fuehrer, via Administrative Offices (J)
The Reischsfuehrer SS and Chief of German Police attn: S.S. Oberfuehrer Petri.
Express
47 copies, 18th copy
As a result of the political situation the Fuehrer and Chancellor has ordered mobilization measures for the Armed Forces, without the political situation being aggravated by issuing the mobilization (X) order or corresponding code-words.
Within the framework of these mobilization measures it is necessary for the Armed Forces authorities to issue demands to the various Party authorities and their organizations, which are connected with the previous issuing of the Mobilization order, the advance measures or special code names.
The special situation makes it necessary that these demands be met (even if the code word has not been previously issued) immediately and without being referred to higher authorities.