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N. THE OCCUPATION OF NORWAY ON 9 APRIL 1940
[RAEDER MEMORANDUM]
In the beginning of October 1939, I had a discussion on the Norwegian question with the Commander of Naval Group East, Admiral Carls, with whose opinions I completely agreed. After that I gave the Fuehrer an oral report on the dangers of an occupation of Norwegian bases by the British and on the possibilities to forestall such a move. The Fuehrer to whom I submitted a short memorandum promised to think it over. About at the beginning of December, the Fuehrer received reports on the activity of the National Samling movement in Norway under the leadership of Quisling and its successes. The incorporation of Norway into a Germanic empire under German leadership and with elimination of English influence was the aim of this movement. These matters were obviously carried to the Fuehrer by Rosenberg. Around the 12 Dec. 1939 the fuehrer commanded the OKW to effect the preparations for the occupation of Norwegian bases in the coming spring. As it was a question of an operation of all three branches of the Armed Forces it had to be worked out by the Armed Forces high Command in which the special Naval adviser took the chief part and took the lead in working it out in accordance with a memorandum prepared by the Sea Warfare Command and in close cooperation with the Sea Warfare Command.
I had left the Danish Question open in my report to the Fuehrer supposing that after the occupation of the Norwegian coast the English influence in Denmark could be completely eliminated in such wise that the intelligence service there could not cause any more harm and the Danish Government would comply with the demands of the German high Command without function
in my report to the Fuehrer supposing that after the occupation of the Norwegian coast the English influence in Denmark could be completely eliminated in such wise that the intelligence service there could not cause any more harm and the Danish Government would comply with the demands of the German high Command without function. However, the Fuehrer decided to occupy Denmark at the same time.
The Navy made the decision to transport the first group of the occupation troops with their equipment on warships and to land them under their immediate protection. Even though the combat-readiness of the warships was impaired by loading them with troops, by this method the possibility of a punctual landing at the ordered time was best provided for. Further groups with munition and supplies were to be loaded on steamships which were to arrive simultaneously or soon after the warships. The difficulty was that at that time the divisions of the army still demanded to be transported with all equipment and "rear echelon service" while a considerable limitation of their equipment would have been necessary and possible. Considerable demands of transport space were made by the Air Forces for their ground organization for which no experience existed at all up till then. The Navy had already in peacetime an organization of "Naval Service offices" in all large German ports which worked in close touch with the Merchant Marine and were at all times exactly informed of the location and the readiness for sailing of the German merchant ships of their area. material for the rebuilding of these ships for transport purposes was at their disposal, plans for such rebuilding were ready in their hands. in January these offices received directives to have the necessary transport space ready in spring. A transport in a westerly direction was given as the reason for camouflage purposes
the rebuilding of these ships for transport purposes was at their disposal, plans for such rebuilding were ready in their hands. in January these offices received directives to have the necessary transport space ready in spring. A transport in a westerly direction was given as the reason for camouflage purposes. The Air Force did not join this organization that also was very favourable for secrecy, but gave the order for their extensive transports to a certain firm with which it had already cooperated at the time of the transports to Spain. This included certain dangers for secrecy and eliminated the experience of the Navy. Moreover, the command of the Air Force did not approach with particular enthusiasm this task in the work of which not the Air Force, but the not so well liked Navy, had the leading part. in the Navy the impression existed that some things could have been better done with regard to the reconnaissance of airfields in Norway and to the preparations for the improvement and the building of airfields.
The preparations for the enterprise were rendered more difficult by the long and very cold winter of 1939/40 which delayed quite a bit the bringing up of the steamers involved in the transport from the eastern part of the baltic Sea and their loading. With all the effort to forestall the English in the occupation-their unneutral action against the German supply ship in Flekkefjord in 1940 made the apprehension of the German Command appear only too well founded-the date for the landing was fixed by the Fuehrer not earlier than on April 9, 1940 in which regard it could not be helped that according to the latest information received the English planned an enterprise in Norwegian waters for April 8-it remained open whether mine-laying on occupation of air bases
only too well founded-the date for the landing was fixed by the Fuehrer not earlier than on April 9, 1940 in which regard it could not be helped that according to the latest information received the English planned an enterprise in Norwegian waters for April 8-it remained open whether mine-laying on occupation of air bases. My request to fix the landing on April 7 was unfortunately not granted by the Fuehrer.
The general order for the execution of the landing was signed by the Fuehrer; detailed directives valid for all armed forces were given by the high Command in which, as already mentioned, the special navy adviser took the lead. The ports of embarkation were distributed from Wesermmende to Stettin-Swinenmende along the Coast. The transportation of the troops to the ports was undertaken only in the last hours before departure without their knowing where they were being transported. it was particularly difficult for the keeping of the secret that for the enterprise in northern Norway some units of southern German mountain troops were destined whose appearance in Northern Germany was already conscious enough by itself. But we succeeded in keeping them uncertain about the destination until to their complete surprise, they were embarked on the destroyers in Wesemende in the night of April 7. The number of the Army and air units i cannot state anymore from memory at present. Also, the composition of the landing troops I can give only in general terms.
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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 1551-PS Previous Document Volume IV Menu Next Document TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1551-PS 1936 REICHS MINISTERIALBLATT i.V., PAGES 946-948 Assignment and Channels of the Chief of German Police within the Ministry of the Interior of 26 June 1936 (1) For your information, I publish in the enclosures my edicts, concerning the appointment of a chief of regular police and that of a chief of security police (enclosure (1) ), and concerning the administrative divisions within the realm of the German police (enclosure (2) ), effective today. (2) Official communications in regards to police matters with Reich and Prussian Ministry of the Interior are to be handled as follows: (a) Letters and communications for me personally, as well as letters and communications of fundamental importance, are to be addressed: To the Reichsleiter SS and Chief of German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior Berlin SW 11 Prinz-Albrecht Str. 8 (b) Letters and communications, which refer to matters to be handled by the headquarters of the regular police according to my edict about the administrative divisions within the realm of the Chief of German Police, are to be addressed: To the Reichsleiter SS and the Chief of German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior (Chief of regular Police) Berlin NW 7 Unter den Linden 74 (c) Letters and communications, which refer to matters to be handled by the headquarters of the Security Police according to my edict about the administrative divisions within the realm of the Chief of German police, are to be addressed: To the Reichsleiter SS and the Chief of German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior (Chief of Security Police) Berlin SW 11 Prinz-Albrecht Str. 8 Phone # Chief of German Police: A2 (Flora) 0040 Phone # Chief of Regular Police: A2 (Flora) 0034 Phone # Chief of Security Police: A2 (Flora) 0040 To the lower agencies, the communities and community organizations as well as bodies of public law. To the highest Reich officials, the Prussian Prime Minister, the Prussian Minister of Finance, the general Manager of the German railroad, the directorate of the Reichsbank by copy. Berlin, 26 June 1936 Inclosure #1 The Reichsleiter SS and Chief
and community organizations as well as bodies of public law. To the highest Reich officials, the Prussian Prime Minister, the Prussian Minister of Finance, the general Manager of the German railroad, the directorate of the Reichsbank by copy. Berlin, 26 June 1936 Inclosure #1 The Reichsleiter SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior Appointment of a Chief of Regular Police and a Chief of Security Police (1) On the basis of the execution edict of the Reich Minister of the Interior to the edict of the fuehrer and Reich Chancellor, in reference to the appointment of a Chief of German Police, I herewith appoint General of Police Kurt Daluege as chief of the regular police and SS Gruppenfuehrer Reinhard Heydrich as Chief of the Security Police. (2) From the entire police force [Vollzugspolizei] the following come under: The Chief of Regular Police: Safety Police [Schutzpolizei] Rural Police [Gendarmerie] Local Police [Gemeindepolizei] The Chief of Security Police: The Political Police The Criminal Police (3) The authority over fields of action of the Chief of German Police, not mentioned here, is explained in the plan of administrative division (inclosure #2) To the (a) General of Police Daluege, (b) SS Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich. Inclosure #2 Berlin 26 June 1936 The Reichleiter SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the interior O/S No 2/36 Administrative division within the realm of the Chief of German Police On the basis of #1 of the edict of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior of 25 June 1936 (not published), for the execution of the edict of the Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor regarding the appointment of a Chief of German Police, I therefore order (with permission of the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior): 1. The functioning of the branches, under the jurisdiction of the Chief of German Police, will be handled by two (2) head-quarters: a. The regular police, which will include the following branches: Household, pay, welfare, economy and police law. General administrative affairs of the state police, as far as they concern the regular police. Safety police. Traffic Police. Rural police [Gendarmerie], local police [Gemeindepolizei], civil service legal
be handled by two (2) head-quarters: a. The regular police, which will include the following branches: Household, pay, welfare, economy and police law. General administrative affairs of the state police, as far as they concern the regular police. Safety police. Traffic Police. Rural police [Gendarmerie], local police [Gemeindepolizei], civil service legal affairs. Medical and veterinary affairs. National defense and army matters, as far as they have been put under the jurisdiction of the regular police. Personnel affairs of officials of the regular police. (The security police is to participate in all actions, which affect the security police). The headquarters "regular Police" is entrusted with the functioning of the following branches in conjunction with the headquarters "security police" if the latter are concerned: Administrative police; and Personnel affairs of police presidents and police directors. b. The security police, which will include the following branches: Political police, Lodge affairs, freemasonry, fraternity affairs, criminal police, Disciplinary affairs within the criminal police, General administrative affairs of the state police, as far as the security police is concerned, Press law, Weapons law and traffic with arms, Passports affairs: General cases. Special cases. Agreements with foreign states about the free passage of the border [Kleinen Grenzverkehr]. Foreign legionnaires (passport matters). Immigration of Jews from the East. National defense and army matters, as far as they have been put under the Jurisdiction of the security police. Alien affairs: General cases. Police regulations for foreigners. Special cases. Fugitives [refractaere], deserters. Deportations. Reimbursement. Foreign workers. Border disputes. Extradition of foreigners. Registration of foreigners. Statistics of foreigners. Border disputes; Foreign Legion. Personnel affairs of all officials of the security police. Personnel affairs of all officials of the political and criminal police. (The regular police is to participate in all actions, which affect the regular police). 2. I confer the leadership of the headquarters Regular Police upon General of Police Daluege. I confer the leadership of the headquarters Security
police. Personnel affairs of all officials of the political and criminal police. (The regular police is to participate in all actions, which affect the regular police). 2. I confer the leadership of the headquarters Regular Police upon General of Police Daluege. I confer the leadership of the headquarters Security Police upon SS gruppenfuehrer Heydrich. 3. The chiefs of the headquarters regular Police and Security Police will sign: For the Chief of the German Police "acting for" For the Reich and prussian Minister of the Interior "by order" The chiefs of the headquarters regular police and Security Police in their offices, in which cases their department heads and assistants are to sign: "by order" To a. General of Police Daluege b. SS Gruppenfuehrer Heydrich Communication to............. Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality Washington, DC : United States Government Printing Office, 1946 Previous Document Volume IV Menu
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Report on Sterilization in Germany and occupied countries to be sent to the members of Committee I Submitted by Dr. B. Ecer ANNEX B
Detailed Statement on the murdering of ill and aged people in Germany
1. the murdering can be traced back to a secret law which was released sometime in Summer 1940.
2. Besides the Chief Physician of the Reich Dr. L. Conti, the Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, the Reichs Minister of the interior Dr. Frick as well as other men, the following participate on the introduction of this secret law:
a. The Councillor of the Ministry Dr. Herbert Linden of the Reich's Ministry of the Interior.
b. Dr. Staehle-Nagold, the Chief Physician of Wuerttemberg.
c. Councillor of Medicine /Obermedizinalrat/ Dr. Hermann Pfannmueller, Director of the Sanatorium and Nursing Institution Eglfing-Haar near Munich.
d. Professor Dr. Werner heyde, Director of the Psychiatric and Neurological Clinic in Wuerzburg.
3. As I have already stated, there were / after careful calculation/ at least 200,000 mainly mentally deficient, imbeciles, besides neurological casses and medically unfit people / these were not only incurable cases /, and at least 75,000 aged people.
4. The murders were mainly accomplished in Muensingen/Wuerttemberg and Linz o/Danube; several gas-chambers with cremation chambers directly attached were constructed there. As the Gas-chambers are next to the training grounds of the troops in Muensingen, it is believed that the mentally deficient who were murdered there, were used for experimenting with new poison-gases.
5. The transport from the institutions to the gas-chambers is carried out by SS Kommandos. These call themselves "Gemeinnuetzige Transport A. G., Berlin, Luetzowufer." This Limited Company also stores the individual medical case histories of the murdered inmates of the institutions.
with new poison-gases. 5. The transport from the institutions to the gas-chambers is carried out by SS Kommandos. These call themselves "Gemeinnuetzige Transport A. G., Berlin, Luetzowufer." This Limited Company also stores the individual medical case histories of the murdered inmates of the institutions.
6. The inmates of the many smaller and middle-sized institutions were murdered almost without exception. The larger institutions are partly-to keep up the pretence to the outside world- still at hand, but they now only have a fraction of the original number of their inmates; for example there are now only some 500 inmates instead of 2500 in Berlin-Buch; in Stadtroda/Thueringen only about 150 instead of 600; in Kaufbeuren/Bayern only 200 instead of 1000, etc. Of the larger Sanatoriums and nursing institutions the following were already closed down completely some time ago; Illenau/Baden 800 inmates; Berlin/Herzberge 2500 inmates, Kreutzburg/Oberschlesien 1500 inmates; Sonnenstein/Sachsen 800 inmates; Werneck/Unterfranken-Bayern 111 inmates; Steinhof/Wien 3000 inmates, and others, most probably now also Schleswig with 1000 beds. Guenzburg with 400 etc. etc.
Written in December 1941,
/sgd/ Dr. T. Lang
This is to certify, that the above report by Dr. T. Lang dated Dec. 1941 is part of the original report of the Czechoslovak War Crimes Commission.
Nurnberg 8. Dec. 1945
for Col. Dr. Ecer
Capt. Dr. Hochwald
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SECRET
Copy
The chief of the Security Police and the Security Service.
IV D 3-3 B/41 g.Rs.-
Berlin, 18 Jun. 1941
TOP SECRET
Express letter
To all state police Administrative office
(To the State Police, attention SS Stubaf. RR. Nosske or Representative at AAchen)
Subject: Measures to be taken against Emigrants and civilian workers who came from the great russian areas and against Foreign workers.
Reference: None
To prevent the unauthorized and arbitrary return of Russian, ukrainian, White Ruthenians, Cossack and Caucasian emigrants and civilian workers from the territory of the Reich to the East and to prevent attempts at disorder by foreign workers in the German production, I decide as follows:
1. The managers of the branch offices [Stuetzpunkt] of the Russian, Ukrainian, White Ruthenian and Caucasians trustee office [Vertrauensstellen] as well as the relief committee and the leading members of the Russian, Ukrainian, White Ruthenian, Cossack and caucasian emigration organisations are to be notified immediately that they are not allowed to leave their domicile without permission of the security police until further notice. Also they are to be told to apply the same measures to the members who are under their care. Their attention is to be called to the fact that they will be arrested because of unauthorized leaving of the place of work and domicile. I request you to have a check up of the attendance of branch office leaders if possible by daily requests in these concerns.
2. Emigrants and foreign workers are to be arrested if it seems necessary in the situation if there is no doubt of their guilt and if they are under the suspicion of having been active for the U.S.S.R. in transmitting news. The measure is to be in readiness, however, it should not be executed before the pass word "Fremdvoelker" has been transmitted by means of urgent telegram.
situation if there is no doubt of their guilt and if they are under the suspicion of having been active for the U.S.S.R. in transmitting news. The measure is to be in readiness, however, it should not be executed before the pass word "Fremdvoelker" has been transmitted by means of urgent telegram.
3. In case of refusals to work or in making propaganda for the enemy or suspicion of sabotage among all foreign laborers arrests and protective custody should be applied most strictly.
4. Persons who violate issued decrees or who try to provoke disturbances in factories or meetings by inflammatory speeches to the emigrants or foreign workers are also to be arrested.
5. It is an absolute necessity for the maintenance of German production to its capacity that emigrants and foreign workers remain at their places of work. In case, conditions in certain communities require that special measures be taken to reach this objective. I ask for appropriate action and report.
The RSHA to be kept posted how these measures are carried out. The decree also is to be applied to emigrants who came from the Baltic states-Lithuanians, Latvians and Estonians.
By order
/s/ MUELLER
Certified correct: /s/ Signature
Chancellery clerk.
Aachen, 3 July 1941
Note: The original decree can be found under IIIc under File No. 20/41 top secret
Koernert
Krim-Assistent
SECRET
Secret State Police, State Police Bldg.-Aachen
II E br.-No. 6/41 top Secret
Aachen, 22 Jan. 1942
1. The written record of these proceedings was worked out and sent through as a secret matter under II E under No. 303/41.
2. R II deliver		taken care of 22.Jan.
3. To the Top Secret File
By order
[illegible] Koer
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SECRET STATE POLICE [Gestapo]
Secret Police Office, Reich Security Head Office. IV C 2-5719/4540/43 g
Berlin SW 11 Prinz Albrecht Strasse 8.19 January 1944
Warrant for "Protective Custody"
Christian Name & Surname: James, Cook Steele.
Date and Place of birth: 29.20.1918 at Malseta, S.Rhodesia
Occupation: Warrant Officer
M or S: Married
Nationality: British Subject
Race (to be stated in case of non-Aryans)
Address: Gresham Farm Marandellas, S.Rhodesia is being taken in protective custody.
Reasons
It has been established by the State Police that he/she endangers the existence and the security of the people and the state by his/her conduct, in that he/she has been proved to be guilty of activities to the detriment of the German Reich and there is reason to suspect that he would, if released, commit acts prejudicial to the interests of the Reich.
received 23.1.44. 1400 hrs
[initials]
(Sgd) Dr. Kaltenbrunner
Certified correct: (sgd) Kriminalrat
Steele should not know of the existence of this warrant [written in pencil; illegible initials follow].
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