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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0719.00018.] The author gives a complete proof of an unpublished result of A. Connes concerning the structure of the automorphism group of an AFD factor of type III. Let \(R\) be such factor. It is shown that the kernel of the module homomorphism is the closure of the group of inner automorphisms and the group \(\text{Cnt}(R)\) of centrally trivial automorphisms of \(R\) is described in terms of the extended modular automorphisms associated with a dominant weight and a cocycle on the flow of weights. This results allows a classification, up to outer conjugacy, of single automorphisms of \(R\) by a complete set of invariants. In the proof, the case where \(R\) is of type \(III_ 0\), \(III_ \lambda\), or \(III_ 1\) are treated separately.