English Translation

The Reichsführer-' Berlin SW 11, 17 October 1939 and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße 8. Chief of the German Police in the Reichsministerium des Inneren B.Nr.: S-IV (PP II E) 284/39g Beheim! To the heads of the state police (lead) stations 3 message to: a) the inspectors of the security police H b) the higher police leaders. $.d. d. 1.1001.19. Subject: Measures against enterprises in which enemy/capital is involved. Procedure : without. By decree of 14 September 1939, the Reichswirtschaftsminister issued the following decree: "According to the Federal Foreign Office, according to the news available to it, measures against companies in which hostile capital is involved should be planned by various bodies. Such individual measures may be capable of jeopardising the objectives of governance, and I would point out, therefore, that it is inadmissible to take action by local intervention against companies in which foreign capital, whether hostile or neutral, is involved. As far as the fact of the existing state of war between foreign states and the German Reich in the traffic with the aforementioned enterprises results, I ask for a report. All necessary measures will then be decreed by the competent Reich Ministers." In the event of maladministration and doubts, I would like to report immediately.