“Subject: Four SS-Totenkopf battalions subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief Army.
“To: Reichsführer SS and Chief of the German Police (SS Central Office) (36th copy).
“By order of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces the following battalions of the SS Deathhead organization will be under the command of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army with immediate effect.
“Second and Third Battalions of the 2d SS-Totenkopf Regiment Brandenburg at present in Brieg (Upper Silesia).
“First and Second Battalions of the 3d SS-Totenkopf Regiment Thuringia, at present in Radebeul and Kötzschenbroda near Dresden.