In the mass graves, the corpses are to be placed next to each other at a depth of the grave, usual at the locality, and they are to be equipped with an identification tag as always, so that it can be determined later on, with the aid of a card file, which corpses are concerned.
7. In cemeteries, the graves are to be kept separate or at a proper distance from other graves; in camp cemeteries, the sequence of graves of other prisoners of war may not be disturbed.
8. If it is possible with special effort, cremation is permitted. In this case also, the camp must keep lists. However, corpses of Mohammedans must be interred in any case, and with the head facing East, the face South.
9. On the "Interment of corpses of Soviet prisoners of war by the communities", the decree IV e 10363/41, 3991 of 27 Oct 41 has been forwarded to them by the Reichsminister of the Interior.
10. The regulation, OKW Az. 29k AWA/W Allg. (II) No. 4470/41 of 29 July 41 on "Funerals for enemy military personnel, deceased or killed in action," will be synchronized in section D with the above regulation.
Distribution:
Armed Forces Command: I (21), II (21), III (22), IV (40), V (23), VI (26), VII (16), VIII (31), IX (25), X (17), XI (13), XIII (15), XII (18), XVII (13), XX (12), XXI (19),
| with additional copies for: | |
| officer prisoner of war camps | |
| Base prisoner of war camps | |
| Interment camps | |
| Prisoner of war construction and work battalions | |
| Reserve hospitals (Prisoner of War) | |
| A S T E N (Branches?) | |
| Service command doctors | |
| Service command chaplains | 345 |
| Service Command administration with additional copies for the finance officers | 34 |
| Reichsminister for air and Airforce Supreme Commander/ LWEHR E with additional copies | 40 |
| Naval Supreme Command/N WEHR I with additional copies. For camp navy stations and finance officers | 4 |
| Armed forces commander OSTLAND, RIGA | 1 |
| Commander of prisoner of war with the armed forces commander Ukraine, ROWNO | 1 |
| Military commander of the Government General with 1 additional copy for each the chief quartermaster and the administration | 4 |
| Commander of prisoners of war in the Government General, Lublin | 1 |
| Armed forces commander, Norway Headquarters OSLO | 1 |
| Armed Forces Commander Norway Headquarters Finland | 1 |
| By communications: | |
| Foreign office | 1 |
| Reichsminister for occupied Eastern territories | 1 |
| Inspector General for German roads | 1 |
| Inspector General for the Reich Capital | 1 |
| Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of German police | 1 |
| SS Regulations administration in the SS High Command Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Kaiserallee 188 | 1 |
| Plenipotentiary general for labor allocation in the Four Year Plan | 1 |
| Reichsminister for labor | 1 |
| Reichsminister for nutrition and agriculture | 1 |
| Reichsministry for Economy | 1 |
| Reichsministry for Interior | 1 |
| Reichsminister for church affairs, Berlin W 8, Leipziger Str. 3 | 1 |
| The German General with the High Command of the Rumanian armed forces | 3 |
| Army high Command/ General Staff of the army/ Quartermaster General | 1 |
| Army administrator | 1 |
| Chief of the Army armament and Commander of the replacement army/VA | |
| (V I, V 9) | 3 |
| (V II, V 6) | 1 |
| (V, II, V 2) | 1 |
| For Army: | |
| officers (VII, V 10) | 5 |
| forestry (VII, V 3) | 1 |
| (V IV, V 4) | 1 |
| (V IV, V 7) | 1 |
| AHA/Staff | 1 |
| /AgEH/ Gr S | 1 |
| /Clothing | 1 |
| /S In | 1 |
| OKW/WFST/ Deputy Chief WFST | 1 |
| /Foreign | 1 |
| /C I II | 1 |
| /C I III | 1 |
| OKW/WR | 1 |
| /AWA/20 V Chief OKW | 1 |
| /Inspect of Prisoners of war | 1 |
| /T | 1 |
| /W Allg. | 1 |
| V A. OKW/Prisoners of War Major von Rosenberg, Paris | 1 |
| AWA/Prisoner of War Organisation | 1 |
| Ing. course Base camps II D Stargar | 1 |
| Reserve | 68 |
| ——— | |
| = 550 | |
| New Reserve (copies) | 300 |
| ——— | |
| 850 |
By order of the Chief,
Supreme Command Armed Forces (OKW)
/s/ REINECKE
[Rubber stamp]: Certified v. Graevenitz Generalmajor
[in ink]
Certifying above copy
Koerner (?)
Captain
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