English Translation

6 Reichsssicherheitshauptamt Berlin, 31 March 1943 V A 2 No. 387/43 r. Ilrs oaph.n ia . -7. APR, 1943 Fra ar An 9/5.43. all the criminal police (lead)stetten and state criminal departments Subject: Simplification measures in the field of the prevention of crime. - In order to release criminal police forces to a more stringent application of police preventive measures and to other war-related tasks and to ensure an acceleration of the procedure when preventive measures are put in place, I shall - at the same time - for reasons of saving paper for the duration of the war until revocation following simplification measures in the field of the prevention of crime: I. 1) Simplified detention documents for preventive prisoners of Polish ethnicity. The preparation of the detention documents (see B IV a 4, para. 2 of the guidelines of the Reichskriminalpolizeiamt on the implementation of the preventive crime fight of 4.4.1938 in the recast of 8.4.1942) meets special difficulties in the case of protection angsts and stateless Polish peoples for many reasons.In the present tenseness of all security police forces, it is hardly acceptable that the deficiencies arising from the person of the prisoner - prisoners of Polish people, among whom many illiterate people are present, are often unable to provide precise information on fore-life and clans- 15 \E460/42