The Chief of the Security Police and the Security Service (SD) IV-C-2 General No. 656/U2 g
[Initials] B.R.
[Stamp] Bureau of State Police, Duesseldorf
Berlin, 25 June 1943
TO:
a. All commanders of the security police and the security service
b. All inspectors
c. All commandants
d. All chiefs of the directing office of the state police
e. All groups and sub-divisions [Referate] of Bureau IV of the Reichs Central Office of Security
For information purposes to:
f. The chief of the SS central administrative office of economy, SS Obergruppenfuehrer (Lt Gen) POHL
g. All higher SS and police chiefs
h. SS central administrative office of economy, office group D—Concentration Camp—in Oraninburg (with 30 copies for the camps)
i. Referate II C3
Subject: Increased shipments to concentration camps.
Reference: My decrees of 17 Dec 1942—IV 656/42 g and of 23
March 1943—IV C 2, Gen No 656/42 g
The regulations for exceptions contained in the above mentioned decrees, which achieved their intended goal, are hereby revoked immediately.
The given directives have not been observed everywhere during the execution of those shipments to concentration camps. Subjects of allied, friendly or neutral states, as well as minors, have, for instance in several cases, been committed to concentration camps in spite of the strictest orders to the contrary. Their re-transfer will lead to difficulties and cause an unnecessary, supplemental effort.
In order to prevent justified complaints, especially of a diplomatic nature, I request to check the shipments which have been carried out immediately. Commitments contrary to the regulations must immediately be reported, since the cases have already been classified according to the general rules of protective custody, in every single case, and the release .or other dispositions of such prisoners effectuated as quickly as possible.
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I063-E-PS
This decree does not concern district and local police authorities.
By direction
' signed: MUELLER
Stamp: Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police.
The Reichs Ministry of the Interior
[Pencil note:] Duesseldorf
' Certified:
signed: BLEECK [ ?] Employee of the Chancellery
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1063-E-PS
Date: Date Unknown
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-1063-E
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