II-77. IN THE COLD WINTER NEAR TO THE KITCHEN VAGON

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On May 28 Himmler noted that Hitler himself directed that only a 'limited number' of copies of this document should be made, 'that it was not to be reproduced and that it was to be treated as top secret'. Those senior SS commanders to whom it could be shown were to be brought the document by hand. The officer bringing it would then wait while it was read, demand a written acknowledgment from the reader, and return with it.

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 79.

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