HITLER’S WARTIME ORDERS The Complete Directives 1939-1945

Adolf Hitler’s directives or Führer’s directives (Führerbefehle) 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 Under the Nazi system, they were binding, to be followed to the letter and superseded any other law. 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.
They include
December 18’ 1940 Invasion of the Soviet Union
July 16, 1940 Preparations for Operation Sea Lion
December 18, 194I Invasion of the Soviet Union
September 6, 1941 Closing the encirclement of Leningrad, destruction of the South-western Front
November 3, 1943 Preparations for a two-front war
January 28, 1945 Employment of the Volkssturm
April 15, 1945 Organisation of command in the event Northern and Southern Germany are separated