German Foreign Minister to German Minister in Finland, Sept. 16, 1940

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The Reich Foreign Minister to the German Minister in Finland (Blücher)

No. . . Berlin, September 16, 1940.

For the Minister personally.

Arrangements have been made by German and Finnish military authorities for the transport of an antiaircraft artillery battalion through Finland. I wired the Moscow Embassy in this matter as follows:

Insert [preceding document].

End of telegram to Moscow.

Please notify the Foreign Minister in Helsinki on the afternoon of September 21 of the step which is being taken in Moscow.

Ribbentrop

Source: Nazi-Soviet relations 1939-1941. Documents from the Archives of The German Foreign Office. Washington, Department of State, publication 3023, 1948.

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