Chapter XLI: Part 51

Copy In the field 7 September 1944
The Military Commander in France
To Distribution

The French government has not yet paid the 2nd September installment of the occupation costs which were due 21 August. For the securing of the French for the armed forces, stationed on French soil, I order the following.

The administrative headquarters [Feldkommandanturen; FK] mentioned in the distribution, will confiscate at once half of the cash amounts of francs at the branch of the Bank of France, located at their official station, and will cause the removal under military guard to the following Reichskreditkassen: Belfort, Colmar, Muehausen, Strassburg, Saargemund, and Saarlautern. According to the situation of end of July, the following cash amounts were with the branches of the Bank of France: Belfort 698 million francs, Besancon 642, Epinal 853, Luneville 93, Nancy 1,411, Nevers 1,016, Saint Die 181, Vesoul 227.

Furthermore, 2 billion francs in thousand-franc notes are in the vault of the Bank of France in Nancy or Epinal, which were brought via transport in the middle of August from Paris to Nancy. Those 2 billion francs are also to be confiscated and to be removed.

/s/ Kitzinger
General of the Air Force

_Distribution_

(in pencil)
FK Belfort 698
Besancon 642
Epinal 853
Luneville 93
Nancy 1,411
Nevers 1,016
Saint Die 181
Vesoul 227
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6,131 : 2 = 3 billion francs
+ 2 billion francs
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5 billion francs were to be confiscated

Order was forwarded by telephone

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