English Translation

Reichsssicherheitshauptamt Berlin, 15 March 1943. IV C 2 Al1g.Nr. 4208/43 An a alle Staatspolizei-leit-stellen, 23.LRZ.1943 b 51 Commander of the Security Police and SD, c 11 Commanders " i d the Officer of the Chief of the security police and SD in Brussels. (g) the i-Business Administration Head Office, D-Concentration Camps in Oranienburg, h the Offices I - VII, n1 Groups and Units of the Office IV, Unit I B 3 (12 Abdr.), 11 IVII 2 11 II C 3 9 "1 e 11 Branch Iv (2 Abdrs.). special treatment of prisoners in concentration camps. At the order of the Reichsführer:, and chiefs of the German police, in all cases in which "gernanic or German political prisoners of a special nature" are admitted to the concentration camps, a corresponding reference regarding the personality of the prisoner to the - Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, Amtsgruppe D - Konzentrationslager-, in Oranienburg, should be made. I therefore request that, from now on, in all the protective detention and remittance requests of the above-mentioned prisoners, for whom, on the basis of their personality and in particular their position in public life, it is necessary to take account of specific provisions in the imposition of camp sentences, and to include a note in this regard. Whether a special communication is to be made to the concentration camp in question and to the main office of the economic administration, will be published in each case from here ..xE-135a/42