III
Responsibility of the troop commanders
The troop commanders are, within the sphere of their competence, personally responsible for the following:
1. that all officers of the units subordinated to them are very thoroughly and promptly instructed about the fundamentals of I,
2. that their legal advisors be promptly informed about these instructions and about the verbal statements with which the political intentions of the leadership had been explained to the commanders-in-chief,
3. that only such sentences will be confirmed which are in accord with the political intentions of the leadership.
IV
Protection of secret
After end of camouflage the decree is to be considered only as secret.
For the chief of the high command of the Wehrmacht—
Signed: KEITEL