End of April 1941.
                                                 I.
 
      The following new supplementary remarks are made on the same basis as the January report 
 
and the supplements belonging thereto.
 
                    1.
     New measures related to the extension of the operations against the mainland
 
of Turkey to the Greek islands with a view to protection of the Aegean Sea; besides, the
 
Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, as well as certain
 
strategically important places on the Turkish coast, will
 
be drawn into the military security zone.
 
     These occupations of Turkish territory aim at absolute
 
security of the sea route for the transportation of Russian
 
supplies from the Ukraine and the Caucasus ( sea route as far as Trieste, for the purpose of 
 
relieving the roads and railroads). The German admiralty staffs have long since been making the 
 
necessary preparations, using the help of the Italian fleet.
 
                         2.
 
     The strategic plans for the campaign against Soviet Russia have been worked out by the 
 
Chief of Staff of the German Army, General Halder.
 
     The fixing of a strategic objective in the planning of an encicling victory of the greatest 
 
spatial extent; the enemy is to be deprived of any possibilty of developing