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Field Command Post, 24 April 1943 The Reicnsfuehrer-SS '
Memorandum No. 39/119/43g RF/Bn .
TO: Chief of the SIPO and SD Dear / Kaltenbrunner,
Referring again to the matter which we discussed some time ago, i.e., the admission of SIPO officials into the SS. I wish to clarify again: I want an admission only if the following conditions are fulfilled: -
1. if the man applies freely and voluntarily,
2. if, by applying strict and peacetime standards, applicant fits racially and ideologically into the SS, guarantees according to the number of his children a really healthy SS stock, and is neither ill, degenerate, nor worthless.
All those who by the standards of these conditions do not fit into the SS will have to wear the uniform of the Ordnungspolizei, following an agreement between you and the chief of the Ordnungspolizei, if the necessity to wear a uniform exists. Due to present day conditions not everybody in the Ordnungspolizei can be an SS man. I refer to the. many thousands of reservists whom we inducted.
I beg you not only to act accordingly in the future, but especially also that numerous admissions into the ranks of the SS in the past be reexamined and revised according to these instructions.
Heil Hitler /s/ H. Himmler
A true copy:
GROSS
SS-TJnterscharfuehrer
2. SS-Gruppenfuehrer von HERFF
3. SS-Gruppenfuehrer BERGER
Copy sent for information.
By command /s/ BRANDT SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer
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RESTRICTED . DIRECTORY '
For The Schutzstaffel [SS] of the NSDAP 1 November 1944
Published by SS Fuehrunghauptamt, Kommandoamt of the General SS
Berlin-Wilmersdorf Kaiserallee 188
Name of Agency Der Reichsfuehrer SS Translation Address Telephone
Chef Persoenlicher Stab RF SS Chief of Personal Staff Reichsfuehrer SS Berlin SW 11 Prinz-Albrecht Str. Berlin _ 12 00 40
Abt. Wirtschaftliche Hilfe Dept, of Economic Aid Berlin SW 11 Wilhelmstr 28 Berlin 12 00 40
Rohstoffamt Dept, of Raw Materials Berlin-Wilmersdorf Kaiserallee 35 Berlin 87 93 31
Presseabteilung Press Department Berlin W 9 Hermann-Goering Str 8 ' Berlin 12 00 40
SS Schule Haus Wewelsburg SS School Wewelsburg House Wewelsburg, Krs. Buren near Paderborn/Westfälin Wewelsburg 30
Das Ahnenerbe The Ahnenerbe Berlin-Dahlem Berlin 89 77 21
Dienststelle SS Obergruppenfuehrer Heissmeyer Agency of SS Lt. General Heissmeyer Berlin-Spandau Hohenzollernring 122 Berlin 37 45 41
Letter to Kaltenbrunner on the standards for security police officers to join the SS, including racial and ideological fitness
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Date: 24 April 1943
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-2768
Citation: IMT (page 1818)
HLSL Item No.: 451463