The assault units (about 21 reinforced regiments, or 7 divisions,) must be ready to begin the action against "Gruen" on September 30, the decision having been made one day previously by 1200 noon.
This order was conveyed to General Keitel at 1320 through Major Schmundt.
[pencil note by Schmundt]
[ITEM 34] [Typescript]
[Stamp:] Office of the Armed Forces Adjutant Attached to the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
[initialled] Schm.
Recd: 3 October 1938
Req. No.: 261/38 Most Secret
Adj. to the Fuehrer
Berlin, 28 Sept 38
Supreme Command of the Armed Forces,
No. 2310/38 Most Secret L I a 45 copies, 16th copy
MOST SECRET
To define spheres of responsibility on the Cz-German frontier, the following orders are issued:
Through mobilization of the frontier guard (Grenzwacht) responsibility has shifted entirely on to the army, that is on to the competent general staff corps. All the units operating on the frontier are subordinate to them.
No new units of police, customs or party may be shifted into the immediate frontier area without the knowledge of the army headquarters concerned, nor may units already in the area be reinforced without such knowledge. In addition no one may cross the frontier without the knowledge of the army headquarters.