List of Adolf Hitler's directives

The Adolf Hitler's directives or Führer's directives were instructions and strategic plans issued by Adolf Hitler himself. They covered a wide range of subjects from detailed direction of military units in World War II to the governance of occupied territories and their populations. Under the Nazi system, they were binding, to be followed to the letter and superseded any other law. In total, there were 52 directives issued. They should not be confused with the Führer's orders, issued late in the war, which were more precise and low-level and could be written or oral. They were as binding as the more general directives.^[1]

The Directives

Directive No	Date issued	Subject	Notes	Full text
1	August 31, 1939	Plan of Attack on Poland	German Invasion of Poland	Full text
2	September 3, 1939	Hostilities in the West
3	September 9, 1939	Transfer of Forces from Poland to the West
4	September 25, 1939	Finishing the War in Poland
5	September 30, 1939	Partition of Poland
6	October 9, 1939	Plans for Offensive in the West
7	October 18, 1939	Preparations for Attack in the West
8	November 20, 1939	Further Preparations for Attack in the West
9	November 29, 1939	Instructions for Warfare against the Economy of the Enemy
10	January 19-February 18, 1940	Concentration of Forces for "Undertaking Yellow"
10a	March, 1940	Case "Weser Exercise" against Denmark and Norway	Operation Weserübung
11	May 14, 1940	The Offensive in the West
12	May 18, 1940	Prosecution of the Attack in the West
13	May 24, 1940	Next Object in the West
14	June 8, 1940	Continuation of the Offensive in France
15	June 14, 1940	Advance on the Loire
16	July 16, 1940	Operation Sea Lion		Full text
17	August 1, 1940	Battle of Britain		Full text
18	November 12, 1940	Seizure of Gibraltar	Operation Felix	Full text
19	December 10, 1940	German occupation of Vichy France	Operation Attila	Full text
20	December 13, 1940	German invasion of Greece	Operation Marita	Full text
21	December 18, 1940	Invasion of the Soviet Union	Operation Barbarossa	Full text; Alt. ull text
22	January 11, 1941	German Support for Battles in the Mediterranean Area
23	February 6, 1941	Directions for Operations against the English War Economy
24	March 5, 1941	Co-operation with Japan
25	March 27, 1941	Plan of Attack on Yugoslavia	Operation 25
26	April 3, 1941	Co-operation with our Allies in the Balkans
27	April 4, 1941	Plan of Attack on Greece
28	April 25, 1941	Invasion of Crete	Operation Mercury	Full text
29	May 17, 1941	Proposed Military Government of Greece		Full text
30	May 23, 1941	Support of anti-British forces in Iraq	(see Führer Directive No. 30)
31	June 9, 1941	German Military Organisation in the Balkans
32	July 11, 1941	Plans following defeat of the Soviet Union	Operation Orient	https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fuhrer_directive_32
32 supplement	July 14, 1941	Use of resources following defeat of the Soviet Union		https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Fuhrer_directive_32
33	July 19, 1941	Continuation of the War in the East	Two Panzer Groups were removed from Army Group Centre, depriving it of the armour which it would otherwise have used to attack Moscow.[2]
34	July 30, 1941	Strengthening Soviet resistance
34 supplement	August 12, 1941
35	September 6, 1941	Moscow Offensive	Operation Typhoon
36	September 22, 1941	Instructions for Winter operations in Norway	Instructions to the Army High Command, Norway, the navy and the air force for winter operations in and around Norway
37	October 10, 1941
38	December 2, 1941
39	December 8, 1941	Abandoning the Offensive
40	March 23, 1942	Competence of Commanders in Coastal Areas	Command Organization of the Coasts Atlantic Wall;[3]	Full text
41	April 5, 1942	Summer Campaign in the Soviet Union	Operation Blue
42	May 29, 1942	Instructions for operations against unoccupied France and the Iberian Peninsula	Operation Attila replaced by Case Anton; Operation Isabella cancelled;	Full text
43	July 11, 1942	Continuation of Operations from the Crimea
44	July 21, 1942	Operations in Northern Finland
45	July 23, 1942	Continuation of Operation Brunswick
46	August 18, 1942	Instructions for Intensified Action Against Banditry in the East
47	December 28, 1942	Outlines the Chain of command for the South Eastern Mediterranean, and defensive strategies for a possible Allied attack on the Balkans and surrounding islands.
48	July 26, 1943	Command and defence measures in the southeast
49			Did not survive?
50	September 28, 1943	Concerning the preparations for the withdrawal of 20th Mountain Army to Northern Finland and Northern Norway
51	November 3, 1943	Preparations for a two-front war		Full text
52	January 28, 1944	Battle of Rome	Battle of Monte Cassino

References

1. Wade, Michael S (2002). Leadership's adversary: winning the war between leadership and management. Nova Science Publishing. p. 15. ISBN 1-59033-211-3.
2. Peter Antill, Peter Dennis (2007). Stalingrad 1942. Osprey Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 1-84603-028-5.
3. Zaloga, Steven J. (2007). The Atlantic Wall. Osprey Publishing. p. 9. ISBN 9781846031298.

• "Adolf Hitler and World War II: Operational Orders". 3 August 2009. Retrieved 2 Nov 2009.