Order identifying the SS Security Service as the "sole political news and defense service of the NSDAP"

Authors

NSDAP Party Chancellery

Date: 14 December 1938

Literal Title: Page 231 of Verfuegungen, Anordnungen Bekanntgaben . . . Order No. 201/38 . . . Subject: Position of the Security Service (Licherheitsdienst [sic] of the Reichsfuehrer SS (SD) within the Party.

Defendant: Rudolf Hess

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-3385

Exhibit Code: Prosecution 257

Document Book No: Prosecution 13 (Hess)

Citation: IMT (page 4084)

HLSL Item No.: 453737

Notes:The person who issued the order is not identified in the document. The order cites an earlier order of 9 June 1934.

Trial Issues

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…

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