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Official Journal of the Chief of the Polish Republic and SD. No. 29/43 187 h/ Person identification in the Occupied Eastern Territories. Poland and SD in these territories must be terminated immediately with immediate effect by the RSHA of 11 June 1943. To the Security Police. Official Journal p. 187. - V D 1 No. 1150/42 — (1) With reference to RSHA. of 20 September 1941 — V C 1 Nr. 1256/41 - addressed to the criminal police (lead) posts (not published), the cooperation of the departments of the Reichsministe- execution of the personal identification procedure in the rium for food and agriculture with the Generalgouvernement, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and security service of the "Reichsführers-" (SD). Moravia and in the integrated territories. expresses, among other things, that the first edition of the RSHA of 11 June 1943 is still conducted in correspondence with foreign countries — 1 Org. No. 2204/43-172 — as well as with the occupied territories, only by the person identification center of the The hereafter printed decree of the Reichs RKPA. In spite of this clear clarification, more than 23 March 1943 — M 2037 — will be made known for information and attention with the increased use of Eastern workers. the SD in the Occupied Eastern Territories requested by German police authorities for installation: identification of Russians and Ukrainians. The home offices are mistakenly presiding over the cooperation of the departments of the Reichsministe- that the same institutions, which are in the Reich's Reichsrium for food and agriculture with the area and in most European cultural states for the implementation of a personal identification procedure security service of the Imperial Leader-4 (SD). In the case of the former Soviet territories of the Soviet Union, there is no legal basis for this. (3 In the Occupied Eastern Territories, with the exception of (1) The security service of the Reichsführers- of the General Districts of Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia (SD) has important tasks to perform as a news organization for the party and, however, a person identification according to the state of the empire. This also demands a close and understanding approach (4) According to the experience gained so far, cooperation between the SD and the Reichs- even a personal examination can only be carried out in the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and rarely, because the church's central authorities. At the request of the SD, the books are largely lost and provide information to the same extent as their registers are scarcely available if they are requests from a state authority (5 A person identification could therefore be involved. The services of the SD are also carried out only with the help of the framework of possible information to the relatives against photographs. However, this kind of information about the departments of the Reich Ministry of Determining is also encountering great difficulties. Food and agriculture and its means (6) Apart from the burden imposed on the operational authorities. 2 The traffic between the security service important tasks, especially the fight against the Reichsführer-4 and the Reich Ministry of Political Crime, are carried out in full use of food and agriculture, is therefore not possible to comply with the head of the security police and the SD (Reichssicherungssuche der Heimatdienststellen). The Minister of the Reichsminister for (7) For the duration of the war, food and agriculture must also be included. The traffic between East workers, who in the security service and the central authorities of the Reich area due to breach of the employment contract, disturbance of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture labor peace, involuntary work, theft takes place between the SD-(Leitt sections resp. Comrades or because of other minor criminal offices and the state or provincial activities are arrested, on the basis of a register and, above all, of nutrition offices, to record the agricultural abbey recognition service. The traffic between the lower service districts of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia is provided by the Reich Ministry of Food and guided. Agriculture (food offices, abbots, etc.) in the other occupied eastern areas follows between these and the SD outposts. Finally, in the case of doubt of the General Commis- sion of Belarus, my decision is to be taken, which and the Bialystok district are to be set up in agreement with the Reichsführer, only if one is to become particularly important. (3) The security service of the Reichsführer-§ is a personal and organizational institution of the party. The cooperation in the SD is therefore the same as an activity (10) investigation into the identity of the party and how this self-understanding of all occupied territories as well as in the rest of the case of all members of the service under my supervision remain fundamentally open in the future. Reichsrecognition Service Centre reserved. The direct correspondence with the authorities of the LwRMBI. p. 493. I ask you to proceed accordingly.