STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1020, sig. 109-4/773

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English Translation

In 1939, he joined Czechoslovakia and became the first commander of the security police and the SD at the Reichsprotector in Bohemia and Moravia. In addition to his leadership, the construction of the safety police in this area is being carried out and the foundations are laid for those findings which later led to the final securing of this space. In 1940 he received the responsible and beautiful task of acting as commander of the security police and the SD in Oslo in the security of the Germanic North. In the meantime, in the context of the war necessity of the Reich Foreign Ministers, he called informally for use in the foreign service. The war necessities and the important tasks of W and police in the Eastern Campaign call him back again to the work of the security police under promotion to the 4-Briga deführer and Maj. General of the police. In June, he became head of the Northern Operations Group of the Security Police, which, within the narrowest framework of the German armies and armored troops, took part in the struggle to Leningrad, and waged the indefatigable struggle and small war against Bolshevik partisans, sabotage and decomposition. At the same time, after the establishment of the Reichskommissariat Ostland, the important security and police administration task of the Higher W- and Police Leader Ostland is transferred to him as commander of the security police and the SD. These short data are only a sober figure. Only we, who knew Stahlecker, know how active, how mobile, how combative, and how tireless.