Notice to police and security services headquarters on the conversion of the Lublin (Poland) POW labor camp to a concentration camp

Reich Security Main Office [RSHA]
IV C 2 A llg. No. 43 059
Berlin, 9 April 1943 To:
(a) All State Police Headquarters
(b) All Heads of the Security Police and of the SD
(c) All Commanders of the Security Police and of the SD
(d) The Representative of the Chief of the Security Police and of the SD in BRUSSELS.
(e) All Sections and Branches of Amt IV and Section II C 3.
For information to:
(/) All Senior SS and Police Leaders.
(g) All Inspectors of the Security Police and of the SD
(h) The SS Economic-Administrative Main Office, Departmental Group D — Concentration Camps — ORANIENBURG.
D-50
D-50
In Addition:
(i) Group I B (12 copies)
(k) Group II A (2 copies)
(l) Cst. IV (2 copies)
Subject: Concentration Camp, LUBLIN.
The former P.W. labor camp Lublin has been converted into a concentration camp, on orders of the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police. At the same time a women's section has been set up there, to which women may be allocated.
The camp will be classed as category I and II.
The new address is as follows:
Hq. Concentration Camp Lublin
12 Gartenstrasse
Lublin (General Government)
The telephone number is Lublin 3038
This order will not be distributed down to Kreis and local police level.
By order /s/ MILLER Certified correct
[SEAL] /s/ BLEECK Chancellery Official