Regulations for punishments at Dachau, including the hanging of agitators (including those who attempt to share information about the camp) and the execution of mutineers or saboteurs, and regulations for guards and prisoner escorts

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Concentration Camp Dachau 1.10.1933.
Commander's Office
Disciplinary and Punitive Regulations for the Internment Camp.
Introduction.
The following regulations, concerning punishment, for the
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maintenance of discipline and order within the limits of the Concentration Camp Dachau are released as part of the existing camp regulations.
Subject to these regulations are all internees of the Concentration Camp Dachau from the time of their imprisonment to the hour of their release.
Authority for ordering punishments lies in the hands of the camp commander, who is personally responsible to the political police commander for the execution of the issued camp regulations.
Tolerance means weakness. In the light of this conception, punishment will be mercilessly handed out whenever the interests of ,the fatherland warrant it. The fellow countryman who is decent but misled will never be affected by these regulations. But let it be a warning to the agitating politicians and intellectual provocators—regardless of which kind—: be on guard not to be caught, for otherwise it will be your neck and you will be shut up according to your ,own methods.
Article 6
The following are punishable with 8 days of close confinement, and 25 thrashings to be administered before and after the serving of the sentence:
1. anyone making depreciatory or ironical remarks to a member of the SS, deliberately omitting the prescribed marks of respect, or in any other way demonstrating unwillingness to submit himself to measures of disciplinary order.
2. prisoner-sergeants and prisoner squad leaders or foremen who exceed their authority as orderlies, assume the privileges of a superior over other prisoners, accord likeminded prisoners special privileges in work or in any other way, tyrannize fellow prisoners who have political views different from their own, make false reports on them, or prejudice them in any other way.
Article 7
The following are punishable 'with two weeks' close confinement : '
1. anyone exchanging by his own will the quarters to which he is assigned without being authorized by the company commander or instigating or inducing his fellow prisoners to do so;
2. anyone enclosing or hiding forbidden articles or articles produced in the camp in outgoing laundry bundles, or sewing them into pieces of laundry, etc.;
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3. anyone entering or leaving barracks, shelters, or other buildings by other than authorized entrances, or creeping through window or other openings;
4. anyone smoking in shelters, toilets and places which are fire hazards, or keeping or depositing inflammable objects on such places. Should a fire result from neglect of this prohibition, then it will be considered as an act of sabotage.
Article 8
The following are punishable with 2 weeks of close confinement and 25 thrashings to be administered before and after the serving of the sentence :
1. anyone leaving or entering the internment camp without
an escort, or who joins an outgoing work detail without proper authority;
2. anyone making depreciatory remarks in letters or other documents about national socialistic leaders, the State and Government, authorities and institutions, glorifying marxist or liberal leaders or November Parties (November Parteien), or reporting on occurrences in the concentration camp;
3. anyone safe-keeping forbidden articles, tools, slashing and thrusting weapons in his quarters or in paillasses.
Article 9
The following are punishable with 3 weeks close confinement: Anyone removing government property regardless of what kind, from its assigned place; deliberately damaging, destroying, wasting, transforming, or using same for purposes other than prescribed. Aside from the punishment the individual or the entire company of prisoners, depending on the circumstances, will be held responsible for the damage caused. -Article 10
The following are punishable with 6 weeks close confinement or an indefinite term of solitary confinement:
1. anyone making money collections inside of the camps, financing illegal activities, within or outside of the limits of the camp, or bribing fellow-prisoners into submission or putting them under obligation to keep quiet;
2. anyone receiving financial aid derived from illegal collections of the red aid funds, or distributing such money among fellow prisoners; '
3. anyone making communications to a clergyman other than
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of problems pertaining to the soul, giving him secretly letters or communications for delivery, or attempting to win the clergyman's cooperation for illegal purpose;
4. anyone disparaging slandering or slighting in any other way the symbols of the national socialistic state or its representatives.
. Article 11
By virtue of the law on revolutionaries, the following offenders, considered as agitators, will be hung.
Anyone who, for the purpose of agitating, does the following in the camp, at work, in the quarters, in the kitchens and workshops, toilets and places of rest: politicizes, holds inciting speeches and meetings, forms cliques, loiters around with others; who for the purpose of supplying the propaganda of the opposition with atrocity stories, collects true or false information about the concentration camp and its institution; receives such information, buries it, talks about it to others, smuggles it out of the camp into the hands of foreign visitors or others by means of clandestine or other methods, passes it on in writing or orally to released prisoners or prisoners who are placed above them, conceals it in clothing or other articles, throws stones and other objects over the camp wall containing such informations; or produces secret documents; who, for the purpose of agitating, climbs on barracks' roofs and trees, seeks contact with the outside by giving light or other signals, or induces others to escape or commit a crime, gives them advices to that effect or supports such undertakings in any way whatsoever.
Article 12
The following offenders, considered as mutineers, will be shot on the spot or later hung:
Anyone attacking physically a guard or an SS man, refusing to obey or to work while on detail, asking or inducing others to join him in such acts of mutiny, leaving a marching column or a place of work as a mutineer or asking others to do likewise, or bowling, shouting, inciting or holding speeches while marching or at work.
Article 13
The following offenders, considered as saboteurs, will be punished by death:
Anyone deliberately causing a fire, an explosion, or any kind of damage such as by water in the camp, in the quarters, in the workshops, in the places of work, in the kitchens, store rooms,
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etc; also anyone manipulating contrary to given instructions with barbed wire installations, high voltage circuits, switch boards, telegraph or water lines, the camp wall or other security installations, heating and boiler installations, machines or motor vehicles. Should the act have occurred because of negligence, then the guilty person will be kept in solitary confinement. In cases of doubt, however, it will be considered as an act of sabotage. -* ❖ . * * * * *
. Article 19
Confinement will be executed in a cell, with a hard rest, with water and bread. The prisoner receives warm food every four days. Punitive work consists of severe physical or particularly dirty work, performed under close supervision. Incidental punishments are: drilling, thrashings, foreclosure of mail and food, hard rest, tying to stakes, reprimands and warnings.
All punishments are being recorded in files. .
Confinement and punitive labor prolong the term of internment by at least 8 weeks, an imposed incidental punishment by 4 weeks. Prisoners in solitary confinement will not be released within a measurable space of time.
The Commander of the Concentration Camp (L.S.)
[signed] EICKE
SS-Oberfuehrer
Concentration Camp Dachau 10.1.1933
Commanders Office '
Service Regulations for Prisoner .
Escorts and Guards
Guard Deputy.
Anyone letting a prisoner escape will be arrested and handed over to the Bavarian Political Police for liberating prisoners out of negligence.
If a prisoner attempts to escape, he is to be shot without warning. The guard who has shot an escaping prisoner in the line of his duty will not be punished.
In case of attack on a guard by a prisoner, the former is to resist the attack not by physical force but by the use of his weapons. A guard disregarding this regulation must expect his immediate discharge. Anyone keeping his back covered, will anyway seldom have to expect an attack.
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If a prisoner unit mutinizes or revolts, it is to be shot at by all supervising guards. Warning shots are principally prohibited.
The time of work is determined by the camp commander. A prisoner escort who brings his prisoners back too early, is guilty of having badly failed to do his duty and can be discharged. -In case a work detachment must stop its work prematurely for some reason or other, then the work detachment leader must have the reason certified on the back of the work service slip [Arbeitsdienst Zettel] by either the construction division or the requisitioning office.
The Commander of the Concentration Camp
- L.S. EICKE
SS-Oberfuehrer