III. Restriction with regard to Court Martials and Summary Courts.
The Court Martials and Summary Courts of regimental and other commanders must not be entrusted with the carrying out of the measures as under I and II.
Distribution:
Sector Staff Silesia | 1st copy |
Army Group B | 2nd copy |
Sector Staff East Prussia | 3rd copy |
High Command 16th Army | 4th copy |
Sub-sector East Prussia I | 5th copy |
Fortress Staff Blaurock | 6th copy |
High Command 4th Army | 7th copy |
Sector Staff Staufen | 8th copy |
Labor Staff Gotzmann | 9th copy |
High Command 11th Army | 10th copy |
High Command 2nd Army | 11th copy |
Chief Construction Group South | 12th copy |
Fortress Staff 49 | 13th copy |
Fortress Staff Wegener | 14th copy |
Armoured Group 4 | 15th copy |
High Command of Army in Norway | 16th copy |
Army High Command/ Adjutants Office Army C.i.C. | 17th copy |
Army High Command/ Adjutants Office Army General Staff | 18th copy |
Army High Command/ Department: Foreign Armies East | 19th copy |
Army High Command/ Operational Section (without OKW decree) | 20th copy |
Army High Command/ Quartermaster- General (without OKW decree) | 21st copy |
In reserve | copy 22-30 |
Source of English translation: Directives for the Treatment of Political Commissars [Commissar Order] (June 6, 1941), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Nuremberg Trial, National Archives Record Group 238m, Entry 175, Box 27, NOKW-1076. Source of original German text: Richtlinien für die Behandlung politischer Kommissare [Kommissarbefehl] (6. Juni 1941), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD, Nuremberg Trial, National Archives Record Group 238m, Entry 175, Box 27, NOKW-1076.