Under the column headed OKW appears the note that—and again I quote:
“Cancelled by code word ‘Altona’ or further confirmation of start of attack by code word ‘Dortmund’.”
In the Remarks column appears the statement that:
“Complete absence of camouflage of formation of Army point of main effort, concentration of armor and artillery must be reckoned with.”
The second entry on Page 10 of the chart for the 22d of June, under Serial number 31, gives a notation which cuts across the columns for the Army, Air Force, Navy, and OKW, and provides as follows, under the heading:
“Invasion Day. H-Hour for the start of the invasion by the Army and crossing of the frontier by the Air Forces: 0330 hours.”
In the Remarks column, it states that:
“Army assembly independent of any lateness in starting on the part of the Air Force owing to weather.”
The other parts of the chart are similar in nature to those quoted and give, as I have said, great detail concerning the disposition and missions of the various components of the Armed Forces.
On 9 June 1941 the order of the Führer went out for final reports on Barbarossa to be made in Berlin on 14 June 1941, which was just 8 days before D-Day. This order is signed by Hitler’s Adjutant, Schmundt, and is C-78 in our numbered series of documents. I offer it in evidence now as Exhibit USA-139.