Telegram addressed the 24th April 1945 at 00.55 by Doenitz to the Reichsleiter Bormann at the Fuhrer’s headquarters. Telegramme du 24 avril 1945 par Doenitz a Bormann.

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Telegramme format A4 a bandes, adresse le 24 avril 1945 a 00.55 par Doenitz au Reichsleiter Bormann au Quartier General du Fuhrer. Priere de designer immediatement Commissaire General a la Defense pour le secteur Nord afin de realiser une direction uniforme de toutes les questions civiles. Heil Hitler. Doenitz, Grand-Amiral. Suit la mention Truite «Forelle» qui est son indicatif de code. Format 21×30 cm. Coins colles au scotch sur une feuille de carton vert. Legeres salissures et petites pliures. Deux trous de perforation de classement. Traduction originale manuscrite du capitaine Leroy en français jointe. Le 20 avril, Hitler decide que, dans l’eventualite ou les territoires encore controles par les forces allemandes seraient coupes par l’avance de l’ennemi, ils seraient divises en une zone nord placee sous les ordres de l’amiral Karl Doenitz, et en une zone sud, commandee par le Marechal de la Luftwaffe Albert Kesselring. Doenitz evoque, sans doute, la creation d’un poste de Reichsverteidigungskommissars RVK pour la zone qu’il commande. Ce poste est vacant depuis le 11 avril 1945, date du suicide de son titulaire, le Gauleiter de Westphalie du Nord Alfred Meyer. Ces documents ont ete recuperes par le capitaine Michel Leroy dans le bunker d’Hitler a Berlin ou il etait entre en fraude en novembre 1945. Ces archives se trouvaient sur la table du bureau personnel de Martin Bormann. L’histoire de leur decouverte a donne lieu a un documentaire sur la chaine RMC en 2019 intitule Fuhrerbunker, les dernieres archives et la publication d’un livre, traduit en trois langues Les dernieres archives du Bunker par Paul Villatoux et Xavier Aiolfi aux editions Memorabilia. A4 format strip telegram addressed the 24th April 1945 at 00.55 by Doenitz to the Reichsleiter Bormann at the Fuhrer’s headquarters. Please appoint immediately a Commissioner General for Defence for the north sector in order to realise a uniform direction in all civil matters. Heil Hitler. Doenitz, Grand Admiral. Followed by the indication ,Trout, Forelle, which was his code name. Format 21 x 30 cm. Corners sellotaped on a sheet of green card. Slight stains and small creases. Two punch holes for filing. Original handwritten translation in French by Captain Leroy attached. On the 20th April, Hitler decided that in the event of the territories still controlled by German forces being cut off by the advance of the enemy, they would be divided into a north zone, placed under the orders of Admiral Karl Doenitz, and a south zone commanded by Field Marshall of the Luftwaffe Albert Kesselring. Doenitz is probably alluding to the creation of a post of Reichsverteidigungskommissars,RVK, for the zone he commanded. This post had been vacant from 11th April 1945, the date of the suicide of its holder, the Gauleiter of North Westphalia Alfred Meyer. These documents were salvaged by Captain Michel Leroy from Hitler’s bunker in Berlin, where he had secretly entered in November 1945. These archives were found on Martin Bormann’s personal desk. The story of their discovery was the subject of a documentary on the RMC channel in 2019 entitled Fuhrerbunker, the Final Archives and also the subject of a book The Final Archives of the Fuhrerbunker by Paul Villatoux and Xavier Aiolfi published by Memorabilia and which has been translated into three languages. Etat II+.