English Translation

35 f) Police borders. For political and economic reasons, in the east, the forces of the police have been ensnared at the entire former Reich border from Suwalki to the south of Kattowiss and in the west at the former Reichs border of Lorraine, Alsace and Luxembourg. These have the task of preventing uncontrolled migration of the inhabitants and economic sell-out of the newly added areas. The length of the police border in the east and west is 1760 km, the enlisted police forces 2 877 men. IV. In addition to the above tasks, which had to be performed in addition to normal service. In both the Old Reich and the Protectorate, larger parts of the police had to have been used to monitor vital operations. The number of forces required for this task, besides the individual staff, resulted in the intake of 15 police battalions. As an example, the Einsaß of 1 police battalion each for the Hermann-Göring-Stadt and at the Hermann Göring-Werke in Linz can only be mentioned. Large forces were still needed, above all, by the gendarmerie at the entrance of the prisoners of war in the home territory, for the position of crews and vehicles for the transport of food and fuel in winter and above all for the elimination of traffic disruptions caused by the large snowfall and the flood disasters that were affecting the spring. In addition to the registration of motor vehicles for the Wehrmacht and the police, large parts of the police are and are constantly needed for the implementation and monitoring of the restrictions imposed by the war in motor vehicle traffic. They check not only the general authorization to drive, which is granted by the allocation of the red angle, but also the necessity of the individual journey. They continue to monitor compliance with the speed limits. V. Special tasks of the technical emergency assistance as a silf police during the war. Not only in the home country, the technical emergency aid was active in carrying out its tasks, e.g. repair of damage to war-important plants, fight against disasters, maintenance of utilities, eviction tasks, tunnel construction in the liberation zone. Also in the countries brought to or occupied by us to the Reich was the TN. In Poland 5 technical commandos, in the eastern regions 4 and in the west in the liberation zone 3, which were partly under the command of the army, in part under the order police. Fm 2. In the half of the war, 8 technical commandos, 7 motorized technical departments in battalion strength were made available to the army and these were divided into 4 groups: North, Middle, South and France. Two further departments are in particular for Lorraine and Alsace, which contribute significantly to the accelerated construction of the destroyed areas. In the 1st half of the war 2 379 places and in the 2nd half of war 2596 places. Particularly to be mentioned is the construction of alone 70 heavy temporary bridges, the restoration of approx. 40 electricity plants and substations, of approx.50 gas plants, of about 70 waterworks and more than 1 600 km overland free lines and cables in the eastern areas. So far the TN has. 41 dead and 30 wounded by enemy effects. W08 80 7