W [Initialed by Warlimont]
MOST SECRET
WFSt/Qu (Admin. 1) 27.7.1944
No. 009074/44 Most Secret
2 Copies
1st Copy
Subject: Treatment of members of foreign "military missions" captured with partisan groups.
K [initialled in pencil by Keitel]
Minutes of a meeting
1. The Fuehrer has decided that members of Anglo-American and Soviet-Russian so-called "military missions", captured in the partisan fighting in the South East, are to be treated in the same way as those taking part in a commando-operation and not as prisoners of war.
2. Independently of the above, the Ag. Ausl. following queries made by the RSHA—Military section—, has put forward for decision the question of how British and American soldiers, captured with the partisan groups, are to be treated.
The following are the resulting opinions:
a. C-in-C, South East.
The members of allied military missions are to be handed over to the SD, should the opinion below (b) be inapplicable.