English Translation

2 The risk of escape is likely to arise and a period of detention corresponding to or exceeding the duration of the marking can be expected to be identified on an experimental basis in the following way: Knoll invented and solved substance is to be drawn on both cheeks at the time of delivery, in such a way that the beginning of the one stroke begins immediately below the lower eyelid; a further vertical stroke is to lead from the forehead over the nasal ridges to the nose tip. The face must be washed before applying the liquid and dried well. The colouring agent must be used again for 14 days. The marking must not be applied in principle to members of the Wehrmacht, Waffen-4 and RAD. as well as to prisoners of war. The colouring agent is to be requested under the term "liquid red colour" by the departments of the security police directly at the company Knoll A.G. Chemische Fabriken, Ludwigshafen a.Rh.. The resulting costs are to be recorded at cap. l4 or l4 a Tit. 33 Ut. 1 of the Reich police budget. The liquid so diluted must be applied with a brush as indicated. In case of frost risk, the colouring agent must not be diluted with water, but with alcohol. It is expected that the number of cases in which a prisoner is fleeing will be significantly reduced, but it is not recognised that the use of fat, powder, carbon black and plaster will attempt to cover up the labelling. It is therefore of particular importance that the use of the mentioned means, suitable for covering the label, be made impossible for the prisoners if a