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sufficient against such a constellation. An action at such a time would have been madness. Q. Was it the political purpose of the Munich Treaty to eliminate the Soviet Union from the European affairs? A. That is correct, for Czechoslovakia was considered to be a virtual field of deployment of the Soviet Union which might have dangerous consequences for military operations. Q. Did the Armed Forces as a whole make their influence felt by means of an official representative with regard to the designation of the border-line in consequence of the so-called Munich Treaty? A. I personally did not, neither did an officer of my Staff to my knowledge; but it may be that a representative of the Army was given the duty to point out strategical points of view, when the borderline was discussed. signed: Wilhelm KEITEL Wilhelm Keitel has signed this protocol consisting of 9 (nine) pages, on all copies and on every page in my presence. signed: Guy A. Weill O-513470 Capt, AUS. Signed Col. Dr. B. Ecer Signed Lt. Dr. P. Schwarz Signed Elisabeth Radziejewska. 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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Das Archiv, Vol. 22-24, Page 1342 January 1936.
Meaning and tasks of the Secret State Police.
In order to refute the malicious rumours spread abroad, the "Voelkische Beobachter" (V.B. of 22.1.36) published an article on the origin, meaning and tasks of the Secret State Police; extracts from this read as follows:
The Secret State Police was created simultaneously in all German Provinces after the National Socialist Revolution owing to cogent political necessity. In Prussia its creator was Prime Minister Goering who is still the Chief of the Secret State Police today. In Bavaria the bavarian political Police was created by the Reichs Leader of the S.S. Himmler, who at the same time directed the building of the political Police forces in the other provinces outside Prussia. The Political Police Forces became uniformly co-ordinated when, in the spring of 1934, Prime Minister Goering appointed the Reichs Leader of the S.S. as deputy Chief of the Prussian Secret State Police-cf. Si P.38 (Vol. 1). Thereby a unified leadership and a proportionate extension of the Political Police Forces of all provinces was assured.
The Secret State Police is an official machinery on the lines of the criminal Police, whose special task is the prosecution of crimes and offences against the State, above all the prosecution of high treason and treason. The task of the Secret State Police is to detect these crimes and offences, to ascertain the perpetrators and to bring them to judicial punishment. The number of criminal proceedings continually pending in the People's Court on account of high treasonable actions and of treason is the result of this work. The next most important field of operations for the Secret State Police is the preventive combatting of all dangers threatening the State and the leadership of the State
number of criminal proceedings continually pending in the People's Court on account of high treasonable actions and of treason is the result of this work. The next most important field of operations for the Secret State Police is the preventive combatting of all dangers threatening the State and the leadership of the State. As, since the National Socialist Revolution, all open struggle and all open opposition to the State and to the leadership of the State is forbidden, a State Police as a preventive instrument in the struggle against all dangers threatening the State, is indissolubly bound up with the National Socialist Leader State. The opponents of National Socialism were not removed by the prohibition of their organizations and their newspapers, but have withdrawn to other forms of struggle against the State. Therefore, the National Socialist State has to trace out, to watch over and to render harmless the underground opponents fighting against it in illegal organizations, in camouflaged associations, in the coalitions of well meaning fellow Germans and even in the organizations of party and state before they have succeeded in actually executing an action directed against the interest of the state. This task of fighting with all means the secret enemies of the state will be spared no leader State, because powers hostile to the state, from their foreign headquarters, always make used of some persons in such a state and employ them in underground activity against the state.
The preventive activity of the Secret State Police consists primarily in the thorough observation of all enemies of the state in the Reichs territory
because powers hostile to the state, from their foreign headquarters, always make used of some persons in such a state and employ them in underground activity against the state. The preventive activity of the Secret State Police consists primarily in the thorough observation of all enemies of the state in the Reichs territory. As the Secret State Police can not carry out, in addition to its primary executive tasks, this observation of the enemies of the state, to the extent necessary, there steps alongside to supplement it the Security Service of the Reichs Leader of the S.S., set up by the deputy Fuehrer as the political intelligence service of the movement, which puts a large part of the forces of the movement mobilized by it into the service of the security of the state. The Secret State Police takes the necessary Police preventive measures against the enemies of the state on the basis of the results of the observation. The most effective preventive measure is without doubt the withdrawal of freedom, which is covered in the from of "protective custody", if it is to be feared that the free activity of the persons in question might endanger the security of the state in any way. The employment of protective custody is so organized by directions of the Reichs and Prussian minister of the Interior and by a special arrest examination procedure of the Secret State Police, that-as far as the preventive fight against the enemies of the state permits-copious guarantees against a misuse of protective custody are provided. While protective arrest of short duration is carried out in Police and court prisons, the concentration camps under the Secret State Police admit those taken into protective custody, who have to be withdrawn from public life for a longer time. The majority of the inmates of the concentration camps is formed by those communist and other Marxist functionaries, who, by previous experiences, would if free immediately resume their struggle against the state
admit those taken into protective custody, who have to be withdrawn from public life for a longer time. The majority of the inmates of the concentration camps is formed by those communist and other Marxist functionaries, who, by previous experiences, would if free immediately resume their struggle against the state. Further Police preventive measures against efforts hostile to the state consist in the dissolution of associations, in the prohibition and dissolution of assemblies and congregations, in the prohibition of publications of all kinds and so on. As the NSDAP and its leaders are also provided with special protection by legal regulations, the prosecution of crimes against these laws and the protection of the party and its leaders are also incumbent upon the Secret State Police.
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1942 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PART I, PAGE 247
Decision of the Greater German Reichstag of 26 April 1942
At the proposal of the president of the Reichstag, on its session of 26 April 1942, the Greater German Reichstag has approved of the rights which the Fuehrer has postulated in his speech, with the following decision:
There can be no doubt, that in the present war, in which the German people is faced with a struggle for its existence or annihilation, the Fuehrer must have all the rights postulated by him which serve to further or achieve victory. Therefore-without being bound by existing legal regulations-in his capacity as leader of the nation, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, governmental Chief and supreme executive Chief, as supreme justice and leader of the party-the Fuehrer must be in a position to force with all means at his disposal every German, if necessary, whether he be common soldier or officer, low or high official or judge, leading or subordinate official of the party, worker or employee-to fulfill his duties. In case of violation of these duties, the Fuehrer is entitled after conscientious examination, regardless of so-called well-deserved rights, to met out due punishment and to remove the offender from his post, rank and position without introducing prescribed procedures.
At the order of the Fuehrer this decision is hereby made public.
Berlin, 26 April 1942
The Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery
Dr Lammers
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1935 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PAGE 839
Law to change the Penal Code 28 June 1935
The Reich government has ratified the following law which is herewith announced:
Article 1
Creation of Law by suitable application of the penal law.
The sect. 2 and 2a of the penal code contain the following wording:
sect. 2
Any person who commits an act which the law declares to be punishable or which is deserving of penalty according to the fundamental conceptions of the penal law and sound popular feeling, shall be punished. If there is no penal law directly covering an act it shall be punished under that law which most closely fits, in regards to fundamental conception.
sect. 2a
The culpability of the act and the punishment are determined according to the law which is in force at the time of the act.
Should a milder law be in force at the time of judgment than at the time of the act, then the milder law can be applied; should the act no longer be subjected to punishment at the time of judgment, then punishment may not take place.
A law which is only valid for a designated time is also to be applied upon the acts which have been committed during its validity even if it has been rescinded.
Decisions on disciplinary measures of security and improvement are to be made according to the law which is in force at the time of judgment.
Berlin 28 June 1935
The Fuehrer and Reich Chancellor
ADOLF HITLER
The Reich Minister of Justice
DR. GUERTNER.
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1942 REICHSGESETZBLATT, PAGE 535
Decree of the Fuehrer regarding special jurisdiction of Reich Minister of Justice 20 Aug 1942.
A strong administration of Justice is necessary for the fulfillment of the tasks of the great German Reich. Therefore, I commission and empower the Reich Minister of Justice to establish a National Socialist Administration of Justice and to take all necessary measures in accordance with my directives and instructions made in agreement with the Reich Minister and Chief of the Reich Chancellery and the Leader of the Party-Chancellery. He can hereby deviate from any existing law.
Fuehrer Supreme Headquarters 20 August 1942
The Fuehrer
ADOLF HITLER
Reich Minister and Chief of Reich Chancellery
Dr. Lammers
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Extract from "DER STURMER", 4 November 1943
"It is really the truth that the Jews 'so to speak' have disappeared from Europe and that the Jewish 'reservoir' of the East, from which the Jewish plague has for centuries beset the peoples of Europe, has ceased to exist However, the Fuehrer of the German people at the beginning of the war prophesied what has now come to pass
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NOTE
To the file.
Subject: Ottilienheim Absberg.
Dr. Hefelmann, Berlin, informed me by telephone that the transfer of the sick from the Ottilienheim was not carried out by the directive of Berlin, but by the directive from the Bavarian State Ministry, Munich, Regierungsrat Gaum.
Furthermore, he told me, that the bearer of sovereignty [Hoheitstraeger] could not be included, since the regulation does not call for that.
Nurnberg, 5 March 1941.
/s/ Sellmer
/t/ Sellmer
297/12
[Seal]
Gau Staff Office Sel/Pf.
5 March 1941
To the Kreisleiter Party Member Michael Gerstner Weissenburg/Bavaria
Subject: Your letter of 24 Feb 1941
Alarm of the population of Absberg.
The Reich Office [Reichsstelle], Berlin, informs me that the transfer of the sick from the Ottilienheim was not carried out by Berlin, but by Munich. Therefore, I have now turned to Munich. In the meantime, I have found from the Regierungspraesident that we also raised a complaint against the ways and means of the treatment of the sick. I therefore hope, that such cross mistakes will not occur in the future.
Heil Hitler
S 297/11
[Initial: Semmler]
Gaustabsamtsleiter
NB: The specialist [Sachbearbeiter] for Bavaria is Regierungsrat Gaum in the Bavarian State Ministry in Munich. If possible we should get in touch with him. Regierungsrat Gaum will see to it, that the institutions will be cleared out as soon as possible.
Berlin, 31 Dec 1940 NW 7, Unter den Linden 72
Telephone: Local 120034
Long Distance 120037
Teletype: Local 517
Long Distance K 1517
Cable Address: Reichsinnenminister [Rubber Stamp] Kreisleiter Informed
Reichministry of the Interior Ministerial Dr. Linden. Iog 7633/40/5100.
It is requested, to mention this official designation and subject in any further correspondence.
[Red pencil] S.6.I.41
To the Gaustabsamtsleiter, Heinrich Sellmer in Nurnberg, Gauleitung
My dear party member Sellmer!
[Rubber Stamp] Kreisleiter Informed Reichministry of the Interior Ministerial Dr. Linden. Iog 7633/40/5100. It is requested, to mention this official designation and subject in any further correspondence. [Red pencil] S.6.I.41 To the Gaustabsamtsleiter, Heinrich Sellmer in Nurnberg, Gauleitung My dear party member Sellmer!
I forward in the enclosure an incident, which deals with the affair about which you have been informed by party member Blanicenburg from the Fuehrer's chancellery. As you can see in the application of Mrs. Marie Kehr, the latter would like to have information whether it is possible by a law of the Reich, to relieve people from their incurable sufferings. I request that you investigate, whether Kehr is politically reliable, especially whether she does not have church connections. In case this should not be so, from my side, there are no misgivings, if you give kehr the desired information orally.
Heil Hitler!
/s/ Linden
In Ink
Ortsgruppenleiter Party member Popp is of the opinion, that one can inform Mrs. Kehr. She is calm and circumspect.
S 7 Jan 1941
297/21 2 DM
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SECRET
SS Fuehrungshauptamt [SS Main directorate office]
Kommandoamt of the Waffen SS
[Command Office]
Berlin-Wilmersdorf, 14 October 1941
Kaiserallee 188
Sect. Ia Nr. 4116/41 geh.
SUBJ: Intermediate report on the civilian state of emergency.
TO: Reichsfuehrer SS
I deliver the following report regarding the commitment of the Waffen SS in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia during the Civilian state of emergency:
In the mutual changes, all Battalions of the Waffen SS in the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia will be brought forth for shootings, and relatively for the supervision of hangings.
Up until now there occurred:
in Prague:
99 shootings
21 hangings
in Bruenn:
54 shootings
17 hangings
Total 191 executions (including 16 Jews)
A complete report regarding other measures and on the conduct of the officers, non-coms and men will be made following the termination of the civilian state of emergency.
Signed: JUETTNER
SS Gruppenfuehrer [Maj. Gen.] and
Generalleutnant of the Waffen SS
Official stamp of Personal Staff of Reichsfuehrer SS 15 Oct 1941
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6th Report on activities and final report of the German Armistice Delegation for Economy and of the Delegate of the Reich Government for Economic and Financial Questions with the French Government for the period from 1 July 1943 to 17 August 1944; Salzburg, 15 December 1944. No. 000101.
[Page 63, last paragraph].
During the four years of the occupation of France the Armistice Delegation transferred approximately 121 Million Rmk. worth of investments from French into German possession, among them shares of war vital enterprises in third countries, in France and in Germany. For details see the former activity reports of the Delegation. About half of these transfers have been paid for by Germany with economic compensations by delivery of French Foreign bonds, which were acquired in Holland or Belgium, whereas the balance was paid through Clearing and from occupation costs. From the difference in the value of the French foreign bonds, between the German purchasing price and the French rate of purchase, there have been realized profits amounting to Rmk. 7 Million which could be paid to the Reich.
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Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression Volume IV Document No. 1992-A-PS Previous Document Volume IV Menu Next Document PARTIAL TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1992-A-PS National Political Course for the Armed Forces, from 15 to 23 Jan. 1937. [National-Politischer Lehrgang der Wehrmacht, vom 15.-23. January 1937] Restricted for the Armed Forces. HIMMLER: Organization and Obligations of the SS and the Police. [Pages 141-161] I shall speak first of all about the origin, organization, and the spheres of activity of the SS; secondly, about the organization and obligations of the Police; and thirdly, about the combined efforts of the SS and the Police, and about the important and vitally necessary question on the internal security of the Reich. The SS orginated in 1923, very early in the history of the movement, as shock troop [Stosstrupp] Hitler, was prohibited and disbanded on November 9, 1923. When the party was reestablished in 1925, the SA as a protective organization for the meetings was at first prohibited. The Fuehrer was also denied the right of speech and assembly in Prussia as well as in Bavaria. Assembly was permitted only in Saxony and Thuringia which at that time were entirely red. In order to insure the success of these meetings, it was necessary to protect them from dispersal. Therefore in 1925 the Fuehrer ordered a small organization to be formed in order to protect these meetings, namely the SS [Schutzstaffeln, protective squadrons]-literally Staffeln at that time, namely small formations with the effective strength of one leader and 10 men in each location. Even as large a city as Berlin had a squadron of only 2 leaders and 20 men at that time. Throughout 1925 and 1926 we succeeded in carrying out and carrying through the meetings of the Fuehrer and also of other party speakers in Saxony and Thuringia with these squadrons. In 1926 the SA was again permitted to exist, and for a few years the SS withdrew more into the background. In the year 1929, eight years ago, I was ordered by the Fuehrer to take over the leadership of all SS units in the entire Reich, then totaling 280 men, and to change them according to the order, into a reliable elite organization of the Party. I decided to tackle this problem-which I should like to discuss
the year 1929, eight years ago, I was ordered by the Fuehrer to take over the leadership of all SS units in the entire Reich, then totaling 280 men, and to change them according to the order, into a reliable elite organization of the Party. I decided to tackle this problem-which I should like to discuss here to some extent-because I was a National Socialist, of course. I want to tell you also how this is to be interpreted. I am a strong believer in the doctrine that, in the end, only good blood can achieve the greatest, enduring things in the world. Strengthened by this conviction of mine, I began to work on this problem. Accordingly only good blood, blood which history has proved to be leading and creative and the foundation of every state and all military activities, only Nordic blood, can be considered. I said to myself that should I succeed to select from the German people for this organization as many people as possible a majority of whom possess this desired blood, to teach them military discipline and, in time, the understanding of the value of blood and the entire ideology which results from it, then it will be possible actually to create such an elite organization which would successfully hold its own in all cases of emergency. This from of selection of good blood has been very often theoretically recognized. Many books have been written on it from Chamberlain to Guenther of the years 1926/27, and many others which I shall not mention here. Now came the difficult question of the method of selecting these people. There are two kinds of selection procedures: first, the most severe selection procedure brought about by war, the struggle for life and death. In this procedure the value of blood is shown through achievement. In the year 1929, a great number of former soldiers still existed whose worth could be determined by their record during the war. Wars however, are exceptional circumstances, and a way had to be found to make selections in peace time as well, when courage could not be given this test. Thus, I could only draw conclusions from the appearance of the people in question. Of course, many will argue immediately: that is all very well but if you judge by height, blond hair and blue eyes and the dimensions of the skull then the