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SECRET!
The Reichsfuehrer SS Personal Staff
File Nr. 19/9/43a/Pers/V
Command Post, 12 November 1942
[Rubber Stamp]
Personal Staff, Reichsfuehrer SS
[illegible notation] Administration
Secret
SECRET!
1. To SS Major General Rauter
The Hague
Dear Major General,
The SS Captain Dr. Rascher is in need of medico-physiological appliances. He points out that there are sufficient appliances at the University of Leyden and at the University of Utrecht, which could be put to use.
The Reichsfuehrer SS asks you to attempt to obtain these appliances, which would still have to be listed in detail by SS Captain Dr. Rascher resp. by SS Colonel Sievers, through the Reich Commisar. SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Dr. Rascher resp. SS-Standartenfuehrer Sievers will submit the list directly to you.
Heil Hitler!
(signed) Brandt
Transmitted to
2. SS Colonel (SS-Standartenfuehrer) Sievers
3. SS Captain (SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer) Dr. Rascher,
with the request that the above be noted and the necessary steps taken.
[Signed illegible]
SS-Lieutenant Colonel
SECRET!
[Rubber Stamp]
Personal Staff Reichsfuehrer SS
(illegible notation)
SECRET
Dr. S. Rascher, SS Captain
SECRET!
File Memorandum.
Procurement of medico-physiological appliances is so difficult in Germany that the continued conduct of experiments is seriously endangered. If the necessary appliances cannot be procured, it will be very much more difficult to build up the Institute for Functional Research in Military Science within the framework of the Ancestral heritage organization [Ahnenerbe].
The Institutes of the Universities of Leyden and Utrecht, however, are very plentifully equipped with the very best scientific appliances at both these universities is not feasible, however, since the university of Leyden is, and will remain, closed, notwithstanding all rumors, and since the University of Utrecht works with only half its usual enrollment.
of Leyden and Utrecht, however, are very plentifully equipped with the very best scientific appliances at both these universities is not feasible, however, since the university of Leyden is, and will remain, closed, notwithstanding all rumors, and since the University of Utrecht works with only half its usual enrollment.
SS Lieutenant Colonel Sievers therefore suggests that the Reichsfuehrer SS write a letter to Reich Governor Dr. Seyss-Inquart saying that it is request that the Reich Governor put theappliances of the University Institutes concerned at the disposal of the Ancestral heritage Organizations [Ahnenerbe], initially on a loan basis.
(signed) Dr. Rascher
Munich, 12 November 1942
[Handwritten notation]
Dr. Brandt to Reuter
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1938 REICHS MINISTERIALBLATT, i. V., PAGES 1089-1091
Acceptance of members of the Security Police into the SS of the N.S.D.A.P. of 23 June 1938.
Ministerial-Blatt of the Reich and Prussian Ministries of the Interior, Berlin, 1938
No. 28, p. 1090
Appointments, Wages, Maintenance, Service Regulations
Circular of the Reichsfuehrer SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior for 23.6.1938-S-V 3 No. 72/38
The
The
Corresponds to the

Criminal-assistant aspirant in preparatory service [Kriminal-assist-Aniv. im Verbereitungsvienst]
Criminal-Assistant aspirant [Kriminal-Assist-Aniv]
Criminal assistant [Kriminal-Assist]
Chief Criminal Assistant. [Krim-Oberassist]
Criminal secretary [Krim-Sekretar] Criminal district secretary [Krim-Bez. Sekretar]
Criminal inspector [Krim-Inspektor] Criminal commissar up to 15 years of service [Krim-Kommissar]
Criminal commissar with over 15 years of service [Krim-Kommissar] Criminal counsellor [Krim-Rat] up to 15 years of service.
Criminal counsellor with over 15 years of service [Krim-Rat] Criminal director [Krim-Direktor] Government and criminal counsellor [Reg. u. Krim-Rat]
Government counsellor first class and criminal counsellor. [Oberreg.-und Krim.-Rat]
Government and criminal director [Reg.-und Krim.-Direktor] Reich-criminal director [Reichskrim-Direktor]

Office helper [Amtsgehilfe Betenmeister]
Superintendant [Hausmeister]
Police office assistant. [Pol-Buereassist] Police-Prison-Technical Sergeant. [Poli-Gefaengnisoberwachtm]
Police-Prison-Master Sergeant [Pol-Gefaengnis-Hauptwachtm]
Police-secretary [Pol-Sekretar] Office-Secretary [Kanzleisekretaer] Police secretary first class [Pol-Obersekretaer] Technical secretary [Techn-Sekretaer]
Ministerial registrator [Min-Registrator] Police inspector [Pol-Inspektor] Assessor [Assessor]
Police-Prison-Master Sergeant [Pol-Gefaengnis-Hauptwachtm] Police-secretary [Pol-Sekretar] Office-Secretary [Kanzleisekretaer] Police secretary first class [Pol-Obersekretaer] Technical secretary [Techn-Sekretaer] Ministerial registrator [Min-Registrator] Police inspector [Pol-Inspektor] Assessor [Assessor]
Police inspector [Pol-Inspektor] with 300 Reichsmark additional salary. Police inspector first class [Pol-Oberinspektor] Government-Assessor [Reg-Assessor] Police counsellor up to 15 years of service. [Pol-Rat]
Police counsellor with over 15 years of service. [Pol-Rat] Office-counsellor [Amtsrat] Government-counsellor [Reg-Rat]
Government counsellor first class [Oberreg-Rat]
Government director [Reg-Direktor] Ministerial counsellor [Min-Rat]

SS Sergeant [SS Unterscharfuehrer]
SS-Staff Sergeant [SS-Scharfuehrer]
SS-Technical Sergeant. [SS-Oberscharfuehrer]
SS-Master Sergeant [SS Hauptscharfuehrer]
SS-Lieutenant [SS-Untersturmfuehrer]
SS-First Lieutenant [SS-Obersturmfuehrer]
SS-Captain [SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer]
SS-Major [SS-Sturmbannfuehrer]
SS-Lieutenant Colonel [SS-Obersturmbannfuehrer]
SS-Colonel [SS-Standartenfuehrer]
With the aim of fusing members of the German Police with the "Schutzstaffel" of the National Socialist German Workers Party into one uniformly turned out State Protective Corps [Staatsschutzkorps] of the National Socialist Reich, I decree as follows:
I. (1) Members of the Security Police can upon request be received into the Schutzstaffel of the NSDAP if they
1. fulfill the general requirements of the SS and
2. a. Up to 30.1.1933 (inclusive) have been members of the NSDAP or of its affiliates (the Sturmabteilung, the National Socialist Motor Corps, the Hitler Youth) even if they have meanwhile honorably resigned from these affiliates.
or
b. for a static period [seit einem . . . liegenden Zeitpunkt] before 30.1.1933 were sponsoring members of the SS [Foerderndes Mitglied]
or
or of its affiliates (the Sturmabteilung, the National Socialist Motor Corps, the Hitler Youth) even if they have meanwhile honorably resigned from these affiliates. or b. for a static period [seit einem . . . liegenden Zeitpunkt] before 30.1.1933 were sponsoring members of the SS [Foerderndes Mitglied] or
c. Have seen service for at least three years in the Security Police under the direction of the Reichsfuehrer SS and have proven themselves.
(2) Permit for admission of a wider circle of persons I reserve for myself.
(3) Admission according to the general requirements is not affected by this circular.
II. 1. Upon transfer into the SS, the grade held in the police will be changed to a corresponding one in the SS. Former members of the SS, SA, NSKK (National Socialist Drivers Corps) who held a higher rank, will be incorporated with the same high rank. When promoted within the security police, an assimilation of ranks will take place in every case.
3. I myself will make decisions about incorporation of members of the security police with higher ranks.
4. The employees of the security police will be put into that SS rank which corresponds to their rank as civil servant, according to their jobs.
5. Members of the security police incorporated into the SS up to the publication of these ordinances will be promoted to the SS rank corresponding to their police rank, provided they do not already hold such, or a higher SS rank.
III. 1. Members of the security police incorporated into the SS will be assigned to the units of the security service of the Reichsfuehrer-SS, according to more detailed instructions of the chief of the security police and of the security main office of the Reichsfuehrer-SS.
2. The chief of the security police and of the security main office regulates the SS-service relations [Dienstverhaltnisse] and obligations of the members of the security police who were incorporated into the SS.
of the security police and of the security main office of the Reichsfuehrer-SS. 2. The chief of the security police and of the security main office regulates the SS-service relations [Dienstverhaltnisse] and obligations of the members of the security police who were incorporated into the SS.
IV. 1. The applications of members of the security police for admission to the SS are to be directed to the chief of the security police through service channels.
2. The applications are to be submitted according to the following sample:
SAMPLE:
(Place and date)
I herewith request admission to the security service of the Reichsfuehrer-SS in conformity with the circular of the Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of the German police in the Ministry of the Interior of June 23rd, 1938-S.V.3 number 72/38 (R M Bli V. page 1089)
First and last name:______________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
(rank and office)
Day, month and year of birth:_____________________________________
Place of birth:___________________________________________________
Party membership number, district [Ortsgruppe]:___________________
Last SS-, SA-, NSKK or HJ rank and number, last SS, SA-, respectively HJ district [Dienststelle]:___________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
Separated from the SS etc. on the_________________________________
(with indication, whether transferred directly to the police, or, if otherwise, which service relations in the meantime)
Day of joining the NSDAP, SS, SA, HJ______________________________
Helping member [Foerderndes Mitglied] of the SS since:____________
Working in the security police since:_____________________________
To The Chief of the security police through channels.
V. This circular is to be brought to the attention of all members of the security police.
Helping member [Foerderndes Mitglied] of the SS since:____________ Working in the security police since:_____________________________ To The Chief of the security police through channels. V. This circular is to be brought to the attention of all members of the security police.
To the Reichsstatthalter, the state governments, the Reichscommissioner for the Saarland, the Prussian supreme and government presidents, the office of the secret state police [Gestapo], the Reich criminal police office [Reichskrim-Pol-Amt], the federal police main offices [Staatspol-Leitstellen] and federal police office [Staatspol-Stellen], the criminal police main offices [Krim-Pol. Leitstellen] and criminal police offices [Krim-Pol Stellen], the commander of the leaderschool of the security police [Kommandeur der Fuehrerschule der Sicherheitspol].
To the SS main office, the main office for security [Sicherheitshauptamt], the security service leaders [SD-Fuehrer] of the higher levels of the SS [SS-Oberabschnitte] and the security service lower levels [SD-Unterabschnitte].
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1938 REICHS MINISTERIALBLATT, iV, PAGE 1906
Cooperation of the Agencies of the General and Interior Administration with the S.D. of the Reichsfuehrer SS (SD) of 11 Nov. 1938
(1) The Security Service of the Reichsfuehrer SS (SD) has, as the intelligence organization for Party and nation-in particular for the support of the Security Police-important missions to fulfill. The SD thereby becomes active on a national mission. This necessitates a close and sympathetic cooperation between the SD and the authorities for general and internal administration. Therefore, inquiries of the SD are to be answered in the same way as inquiries of all national office are treated. Likewise, the sections of the SD are obligated to furnish information to the general and internal administration.
(2) Business between the SD and the Reich Ministry of the Interior proceeds solely through the Chief of the Sicherheitshauptamt, business between the SD and the remaining authorities of general and internal administration only through the higher levels of the SD. Business between the authorities for general and internal administration of the SHA proceeds through the Reich Ministry of the Interior, business between the authorities for general and internal administration and the other SD offices in Prussia through the Regierungs-Praesident or Ober-Praesident, in the other provinces through the corresponding authorities. In doubtful cases the combined decision of the Reich Ministry of the Interior and of the Reichsfuehrer SS should be obtained.
Supplement for municipalities, municipal groups, other corporate bodies of the public law: I request, to act accordingly.
To lower authorities municipalities, municipal groups, other corporate bodies of the public law.
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for municipalities, municipal groups, other corporate bodies of the public law: I request, to act accordingly. To lower authorities municipalities, municipal groups, other corporate bodies of the public law. Source: Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Office of the United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality
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Mobilization Book for the Civil Administration 1939 Edition [Pages 2-18]
Armed Forces High Command				Berlin, 18th Feb 1939
No. 265/39 g.Kdos. I IVa.				125 copies, 101st copy
Re: Reprint of Mobilization Book for the Civil Administration.
1. Enclosed is the Reprint for 1939 of the "Mobilization Book for the Civil Administration" with the request to destroy Mobilization Books (Z), hereby made obsolete, at the beginning of the new mobilization year.
2. The Reprint takes effect on the 1st April 1939. The annexes V, XIX, and XX will be forwarded after their completion.
3. An expression of opinion on the proposals handed in here will not take place in detail any more, insofar as the expression has not already been made.
4. The necessity of cooperation between Ministers and the highest Reich agencies is not always pointed out in the column "Remarks". It is to be understood that the cooperation needed for preparations and carrying out of the measures must be guaranteed, even without an express directive.
Chief of the Armed Forces High Command.
Keitel.
Distribution's List: 									Copy
Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor								1
Deputy of the Fuehrer									2-3
Attention SS Brigadier General Knoblauch
Prussian State-Ministry									4-5
Attention Counsellor of the Ministry Bergbohm
Ministry for Foreign Affairs
Attention Counsellor of the Legation Dr. Freiherr v.d. Heyden-Rynsch	6-7
GBV [Plenipotentiary-General for Administration] Chief of Operational Staff
Attention State Secretary Dr
Brigadier General Knoblauch Prussian State-Ministry 4-5 Attention Counsellor of the Ministry Bergbohm Ministry for Foreign Affairs Attention Counsellor of the Legation Dr. Freiherr v.d. Heyden-Rynsch 6-7 GBV [Plenipotentiary-General for Administration] Chief of Operational Staff Attention State Secretary Dr. Struckart
for Reich Ministry of the Interior							8-9
for Reich Ministry of Justice								11-12
for Reich Ministry of Science, Education and Popular Culture		13-14
for Central Reich Office for regional planning					15-16
GBW [Plenipotentiary-General for Economics] Chief of the Operational Staff
Attention Ministerial Director Sarnow
for GBW [Operational Staff]								17-18
for Reich Ministry of Economics							19-20
for Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture					21-22
for Reich Labor Ministry								23-24
for Reich Chief Forester								25-26
Reich Ministry of Finance								27-28
Attention Counsellor of the Minister, Privy Counsellor Dr. Bender
Reich Ministry of Finance								29-30
Attention Finance President von Dietz
Reich Ministry of Communications							31-33
Attention Chief of Section of the Ministry Baur
Reich Ministry of Communications							34-35
Attention State Railway Director Dr. Ebeling
Reich Postal Ministry									36-37
Attention Counsellor of the Ministry Honold
Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda			38-39
Attention Lt Colonel Wentscher
Reichbank Directorate									40-41
Attention Reichsbank Director Dr. Mueller
Inspector General of the German Highways						42-43
Attention Government Construction Counsellor Henne
OKH (Army High Command) (2nd Section of the General Staff of the Army)	44-73
OKM (Navy High Command) (A.II)							74-81
Reich Ministry for Air Travel and Air Force High Command (2nd Section of the General Staff of the Air Force)							82-93
OKW: (Armed Forces High Command)
L Ia												94
L Ia Prop.											95
L II												96
L IVa												97
L IVb												98
L IVd												99
WNV												100
W Stb												101-103
A Ausl./Abw
Army) 44-73 OKM (Navy High Command) (A.II) 74-81 Reich Ministry for Air Travel and Air Force High Command (2nd Section of the General Staff of the Air Force) 82-93 OKW: (Armed Forces High Command) L Ia 94 L Ia Prop. 95 L II 96 L IVa 97 L IVb 98 L IVd 99 WNV 100 W Stb 101-103 A Ausl./Abw. (Foreign Intelligence Section)					104-106
AWA (J)											107
WH												108
Being Kept by L IVa									109-125
Part I
of the Mobilization Schedule for the Civil Administrative Authorities
Introduction to the Mobilization Schedule for the Civil Administrative Authorities.
A. Principles & Concepts
1. Preparedness for defense on the part of the whole nation is the condition for an effective defense of the Reich.
2. It is through mobilization that Wehrmacht, Economy, State and People are carried over from a state of peace to a state of war.
The mobilization of the Wehrmacht comprises:
(a) The securing of the necessary foundations for the establishment, leadership and supplying of the needs of the war-Wehrmacht,
(b) the building up of peace units to war strength,
(c) the establishment of new war units,
(d) the establishment of the reserve Wehrmacht.
The Mobilization of Economy comprises the collecting of all economic forces and holding them in readiness to work at their highest capacity in the service of the conduct of the war.
The Mobilization of State & People comprises:
(a) the turn-over of state Leadership and the life of the people to the requirements of the conduct of the war as regards politics, sociology and constitutional law; and
(b) making available for the conduct of the war all the material forces of the people.
3. A case of war can arise instantaneously or start as a result of foreign political tension. The preparation and schedule of mobilization must take both possibilities into account.
The "state of defense" and the "state of war" in the sense of R.V
war all the material forces of the people. 3. A case of war can arise instantaneously or start as a result of foreign political tension. The preparation and schedule of mobilization must take both possibilities into account. The "state of defense" and the "state of war" in the sense of R.V. Law will be ordered expressly in accordance with the Reichs defense law by the Fuehrer and Reichs Chancellor.
With the declaration of the "state of war", the war laws and regulations come into force without further orders. The legal consequences provided in other laws for the state of war also become effective.
If no "state of defense" has previously been ordered, the regulations concerning the state of defense will come into force with the declaration of the state of war.
It is to be reckoned with that foreign political considerations (war guilt question, etc.) will not give rise to a declaration of a state of war, even if it should come to armed conflict with a foreign enemy. Legal provision is therefore to be made by which regulations for "war" in various laws will come into force for the case in question. These regulations must be formulated in such a way that no "war" exists as understood in international law.
For this reason the legal consequences provided in the various laws for the "the case of war" will not come into force with the mobilization decree (X or mobilization case).
4. The period of tension possible preceding a case of war must be exploited to the limit of foreign political endurance in order that the Reich may be made ready for war.
For these reasons the 3 following stages must be distinguished from each other in the schedule of mobilization.
4. a
case). 4. The period of tension possible preceding a case of war must be exploited to the limit of foreign political endurance in order that the Reich may be made ready for war. For these reasons the 3 following stages must be distinguished from each other in the schedule of mobilization. 4. a. "The period of tension"
During the period of tension the fundamentals for the reliable execution of the mobilization proper should be created, and individual measures for mobilization should be taken in advance, whereby as far as possible foreign political liability and any kind of provocation abroad are to be avoided.
These "advance measures" will be arranged in the mobilization plans of the armed forces, according to stages of tension. Within these advance measures there will be no distinction of special stages for the civil administration, since it is necessary to have a much more flexible regulation.
The advance measures will be executed on the basis of peace legislation. The fact and the purpose of the advance measures are to be camouflaged as much as possible within the civil administration concerned.
The "period of tension" as such will not be ordered; it is merely the technical term for a period of special political tension in foreign relations, during which preparatory measures (advance measures) can be ordered.
4. b. Mobilization without public announcement ("X case"):
While its purpose is to be camouflaged as far as possible, it is to bring about the systematic mobilization of the armed forces, and if necessary the camouflaged mobilization of the state, economy and people. A possibility exists that "Case X" will only be ordered for the armed forces or parts of it.
If no official announcement of the state of defense is made, the execution of the mobilization must be assured through administrative channels. The peace time laws: Law relating to Participation in Defense measures, emergency service decree, etc