Propaganda companies are to be used. Amendments as regards attachment made necessary through the peaceful entry will be conveyed verbally.
Chief of the Supreme Command
of the Armed Forces
KEITEL
DISTRIBUTION: III and Special Distribution
[ITEM 41] [Typescript]
[Stamp:] Office of the Armed Forces Adjutant attached to the Fuehrer and Reichs Chancellor
[pencil note] Adjutant to the Fuehrer
Recd: 3 Oct. 1938
Req. No: 266/38 Most Secret
Berlin 30.9.38
200 copies, 153rd copy
Supreme Command of the Armed Forces
WFA/L No. 2150/38 Most Secret IV a.
MOST SECRET
Subject: OCCUPATION OF SUDETEN-GERMAN TERRITORY
1. The Fuehrer and Reichs Chancellor has ordered that Sections of the Armed Forces march into the Sudeten-German territory, beginning 1 October, 1938. There will be no general mobilization of the Armed Forces (or case "X"). Units already mobilized, will, for the time being, remain at their present posts.
2. Coincident with the crossing of the Reich frontier, the Commander in Chief of the Army will assume full powers in the territory to be occupied, together with authority to transfer this power to the C's in C of the Armies.
The Commander in Chief can exercise these powers, and pass laws, install special courts, and give directives to the appropriate departments and offices functioning in the area of operations, valid for the operational area with the exception of the highest Reich authorities or officers of the State of Prussia and the Executive Board of the NSDAP. In all other cases, the right of issuing directives has priority over directives from higher superior authorities. The area of operations will be extended forward according to the area to be occupied. The shifting of the rear frontier of the operational area will be ordered separately.