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provided the OBL with channels to the French civilian populationliving within its sector. Consequently the Feldkommandantur was thelocal military agency involved in the tracking down of OT desertersin France.(ii)Current channels, Germany.Outside of disciplinary jurisdiction of regional and local militarycomnanders over OT personnel stationed in their area, Army-OT administrativechannels are bound up with Wehrniacht-OT channels to such anextent, that to discuss them would be equivalent to repeating theinformation given in paragraph 86. Reference is therefore made to thatparagraph.88. Anay-OT Operational Channels of Liaison.(i)EGf area as of summer,Operational liaison at the top between the Army and OT is establishedthrough the Vertreter des Leiters der Ant Bau-OTZ belmGeneralstab des Heeres (Representative of the Chief of Amt Bau-OTZ tothe Army General Staff). Liaison at the next lower echelon is maintainedbetween Einsatsgruppe (abbreviated EG) and the Army or ArmyGroup occupying the corresponding area. The nature of the liaisonbetween EG and Army or Army Group depended mainly on the tacticalsituation and on the political status of the occupied territory. TheChief of EG West, (France, Belgium and Holland) for example,Oberbaudirektor V/EISS, was at the same time RUNDSTEDT's chief Engineer;consequently he represented the OT on HUNDSTEDT*s staff. In Italy, OTliaison with Army is established at the top through the OT-Verbindungsftlhrer(Liaison Officer), to Oberbefehlshaber Sudwest. In the Balkafis,liaison was established through the Beauftragter der OT (OT Representative)to the General Engineer of the Commander in Chief South-EasternTheatre withHQ at SOFIA. Similarly in Russia, OT had establishedliaison through the several Beauftragte der OT to the correspondingGenerals of Engineers on the various Army Group staffs in North, Centraland Southern Russia.(i