English Translation

ler_Chefder-Security Police. Berlin,-den*28,February 1944 and SD IV - 326/43g Secret! To all commanders of the security police and the SD all state police (lead) stations inform all higher - and police leaders all commandors of the safety police and SD all inspectors of Security police and of SD. Subject: Reactionary and oppositional action here: Submission of investigations in insidious matters to the penal authority. Reference: Decrees of 30.7., 12. & 14.8 and 14.9.1943-IV-326/43g. There are more cases in which cases involving offences against the law of insidiousness are not passed on to the law enforcement authority by the state police (lead) departments, but where they are dealt with in their own jurisdiction by state police means. It follows that, in the event of subsequent execution of such cases, the special courts have imposed several penalties which go far beyond the first steps taken by the state police. the relevant state police (head) had requested 6 months of Meckerer-Bau troupe, while the perpetrator in the same case was later sentenced to death by the People's Court. Therefore, for the uniform treatment of all misconduct, I order that all such actions should be submitted in principle to the law enforcement authority. Only in cases where a state police warning or the imposition of security money appears sufficient, or in cases in which a judicial conviction is certainly not to be evaluated in the light of the facts (absence of witnesses pp.), may be waived from the submission of the proceedings to the law enforcement authority. If prominent persons appear in the proceedings, the law enforcement authority must seek the local order before surrendering.