Secret State Police
State Police Station Nurnberg-Fuerth Teletype Substation
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Received 14 February 1944 No. 0544
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RSHA Roman 4 F 1 45/44 .
The border Inspector-general.
Urgent—Submit immediately. —
Treatment of recaptured escaped eastern laborers [Ostarbeiter]. By order of the RFSS all recaptured escaped eastern laborers without exception are to be sent to concentration camps, effective immediately. In regard to reporting to RFSS, I request only one report by teletype to section Roman 4 D.— (Foreign laborers) on 10 March 1944 as to how many of such male or female eastern laborers were turned over to a concentration camp between today and 10 March 1944. The usual monthly report, as per decree of 27 May 1943, concerning eastern laborers sent to concentration camps, to section Roman 4 D 5. Also as per decree of 15 December 1943—S-Roman 4 D (Foreign laborers)—479/42.
Prescribed monthly statistical report of the fight against ...
above file number. In addition, a report is to be made to me
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3360-PS
quarterly—for the first time on 5 respectively 10 March 1944— for the first time by 10 March 1944 to the RSHA, of the total number of foreign laborers present in the border sector who as border commuters [Grenzgaenger] in the compass of small border traffic cross the border to their place of [work ?] situated in the Reich.
Order that eastern workers who have escaped and been captured are to sent to a concentration camp
Date: 12 February 1944
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-3360
Citation: IMT (page 1943)
HLSL Item No.: 451642
Notes:The order originated with Himmler.
Trial Issues
Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SD, OKW) (… Forced labor in concentration camps and SS labor units (IMT, NMT 4)
Document Summary
PS-3360: Telegram emanating from RSHA, Dept IV Gestapo (foreign laborers) containing a Himmler decree, that all fugitive Eastern laborers are to be sent into concentration camps when captured
PS-3360: Telegram from the inspector general of frontiers to the secret state police Nuremberg-forth, 12 february 1944: workers from the east who had escaped are to be transferred to a concentration camp on recapture