The Chief of the Security
Police and of the Security Service (SD)
IV A 36—a—2474/44
To all Commanders of the Security police.
state Police—Main—Agencies [Staatspolizei-leit-stellen]
the Chiefs of the Security (police?)
the Task Force LUXEMBURG.
Through message centre
to the Inspectors of the Security Police and.[?]_____
to the Department I (Organization) to the Business Office IV (2 Copies)
Subject: Arrest of Plant Directors.
It has happened repeatedly that the arrest of plant directors of plants important for the war has not been reported promptly. In reply to the inquiries of Reich agencies, such as the Reich Ministry for Aviation, the Military Court for special purposes (z.b.V.) of the Air Corps, etc., about the facts of the case, no information could be given. Return inquiries, which wasted time, were necessary.
I therefore decree, that the arrest of plant directors of plants important for the war and the arrest of other leading persons of the armament industry, who are occupied with tasks important for the war, be reported at once by urgent teletype (BLITZ—FS) with the reasons mentioned. At the same time it is to be mentioned, whether it is a question of an armament plant of the aviation industry.
/s/ DR. KALTENBRUNNER
[Seal]
Authenticated ROESEL
Chancellery Employee
96
Instructions to security police and state police offices to report whenever a plant director or other leader of a war economy operation is arrested
Authors
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (chief of security police and security service (SD), RSHA)
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal (1903-1946)
- Born: 1903-10-04 (Ried im Innkreis) (country: Austria-Hungary)
- Died: 1946-10-16 (Nuremberg Court Prison)
- Country of citizenship: Austria; German Reich
- Occupation: lawyer; military officer; politician
- Member of political party: Nazi Party
- Military rank: Obergruppenführer
- Military branch: Schutzstaffel (period: 1940-01-01 through 1945-01-01)
- Position held: Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-08); President of Interpol (period: 1943-01-30 through 1945-05-12; replaces: Arthur Nebe); member of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany
Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and/or Security Service (S.D.)
Date: 1944
Literal Title: Subject: Arrest of Plant Directors.
Defendant: Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-3361
HLSL Item No.: 451738
Notes:This document was apparently not entered as evidence.
Document Summary
PS-3361: Partially burned [Illegible] circular from Kalton-brunner to [Illegible] and Gestapo Offices re report about arrests of plant managers of war vital plans