SECRET
The Chief of the Security Police and the Security Service B. Nr. IV* 656/42 SECRET
Berlin 17 Dec 1942
Secret To:
All commanders of the security police and the security service
All inspectors of the security police and the security service
All commandants of the security police and the security service
All chiefs of the State police headquarters For the information of:
The chief of the SS economic and administration headquarters, SS Lt Gen Pohl
All higher SS and police chiefs
The inspectors of the concentration camps
For reasons of war necessity not to be discussed further here, the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police on 14 December 1942, has ordered that until the end of January 1943, at least 35,000 prisoners qualified for work, are to be sent to the concentration camps.
In order to reach this number, the following measures are required :
1. As of now (so far until 1 Feb. 1943) all eastern workers or such foreign workers who have been fugitives, or who have broken contracts, and who do not belong to allied, friendly or neutral States are to be brought by the quickest means to the nearest concentration camps. For this, the most necessary formalities,.as listed under N. 3 must be observed.
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In order to eliminate and to avoid complaints, each and every one of these measures in the individual cases must be presented to third authorities, by giving careful reasons, as being irrémissible security police measures.
2. The commanders and the commandants of the security police and the security service, and the chiefs of the State police headquarters will check immediately on the basis of a close and strict ruling.
a. the prisons.
b. the labor reformatory camps.
All prisoners qualified for work, if it is essentially and humanly possible, will be committed at once to the nearest concentration camp, according to the following instructions, for instance also if penal procedures were to be established in the near future. Only such prisoners who in the interest of investigation procedures are to remain absolutely in solitary confinement can be left there.
Every single laborer counts!
The checking must be taken up at once. All withholding of prisoners qualified for work is prohibited. My approval is required for exceptions.
3. The prisoners who are committed to concentration camps till the 1 Feb 1943 will be seized under reference to this decree, solely according to a list (present number, first and second name, place of birth and date, residence, reason for arrest with short commentary). One list will be sent to the Reichs security headquarters as a collective request for both protective custody as well as for commitment to a concentration camp, for which the confirmation can be assumed.
In regards to eastern workers, that is to say for such workers who have to wear the insignia "EAST", it is sufficient to give the total number of the arrested.
One copy goes with the transport to the commander of the concentration camp, and another copy remains with the authorities who are making the commitment.
In order to facilitate the necessary exploitation, the lists are to be made up on single pages and in such a way that enough space be left between the data of the individual prisoners, so that the lists can be cut out.
The lists are to be sent to the Reichs security headquarters, Referat IV c 2.
By direction
signed: MUELLER
certified correct
[seal of the secret state police]
signed : HILLMUTH Chief Secretarv of Police
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TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1063-D-PS
Date: Date Unknown
Total Pages: 2
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-1063-D
HLSL Item No.: Unknown