Archive/File: imt/nca/nca-06/nca-06-C-53 Last-Modified: 2000/02/21 [Page 877] PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT C-53 High Command of Armed Forces "WFSt"/Dep. L. No. 33 298/40 Top Secret (I) Fuehrer HQ, 20 Sept. 1940. 6 copies Copy No. 3 TOP SECRET By officer only Since the Rumanian Government has applied for German instructors and instruction troops, the Fuehrer and Supreme Commander has decided as follows: 1. Army and Air Forces will send Military Missions to Rumania. To the world their tasks will be to guide friendly Rumania in organizing and instructing her forces. 2. The real tasks -- which must not become apparent either to the Rumanians or to our own troops -- will be a. To protect the oil district against seizure by third powers or destruction. b. To enable the Rumanian forces to fulfill certain tasks according to a systematic plan, worked out with special regard to German interests. c. To prepare for deployment from Rumanian bases of German and Rumanian forces in case a war with Soviet Russia is forced upon us. ******* The Chief of the High Command [signed] Keitel
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