For the Henlein Free Corps and units subordinate to this the principle remains valid, that they receive instructions direct from the Fuehrer and that they carry out their operations only in conjunction with the competent general staff corps. The advance units of the Free Corps will have to report to the local commander of the frontier guard immediately before crossing the frontier.
Those units remaining forward of the frontier should—in their own interests—get into communication with the frontier guard as often as possible.
As soon as the army crosses the Cz border the Henlein Free Corps will be subordinate to the OKH. Thus it will be expedient to assign a sector to the Free Corps even now which can be fitted into the scheme of army boundaries later.
The frontier guard has orders only to protect the German frontier, and not to take part in operations on the other side of the border. Any support to the Free Corps by the frontier guards anywhere over the frontier is prohibited.
Chief of the Supreme Command of the
Armed Forces
Keitel
Distribution II
plus:
Reich Minister of the Interior.
Reich Finance Minister
Deputy of the Fuehrer
S.A. Hqs.
Reichsfuehrer SS
Reich Labour Service
Free Corps Henlein (Oberstlt Koechling)
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[ITEM 35] [Typescript]
[Stamp:] Office of the Armed Forces Adjutant
Attached to the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
(pencil noted: Adjutant to the Fuehrer)
Recd: 3 October 1938
Req. No: 262/39 Most Secret
Berlin, Sept. 28, 1938
Supreme Command of the Armed Forces
No. 2315/38 Most Secret WFA/L II
MOST SECRET.
Re: Advance Measures Pertaining to Mobilization Plan (Army) Special Appendix 5
Following advance measures may be carried out:
On the Franco-German border (WEHRKREIS V and XII)