English Translation

The Russian border guard can be compared with the German border police. It is strictly military and represents in the SU. according to the length of the border and the size of its tasks a special pillar in the administrative apparatus of the NKwD. The generous expansion of this Russian border guard was apparently the precondition for coping with their inexhaustible tasks. It is probably also thanks to the independent administration of this organization that it has, as it is acknowledged, fulfilled its tasks well and almost hermetically completed the Russian area against foreigners.The border police in the Reich area, which is still in development and expansion, is, however, attached to the secret state police. It is 4-moderate and, with its relatively small available forces, ultimately has to perform the same tasks as the Russian border guards, the main administration of the state security - GuGB -, the temporary NKGB, against the former GPU, is the same organization as the secret state police in the Reich, against Amt IV in the Imperial Security Main Office. While the Soviet Russian militia, which, as already stated above, can be compared with the German police, the criminal police, 40445 - / -