English Translation

43 25 May 1940 at present Hamburg-Langenhorn. St.S. 348/71/40. 2 9. V. 1940 Reichsführer i und Chef der Deutschen Polizei, Berlin. ------ Reichsfahrer! At the beginning of the war, I had already declared myself to the Wehrmacht with regard to their lack of personnel, to form guards from members of the general population and to form them among others. to allow railway protection to be used on such routes, which were to be protected as military objects by the Wehrmacht. It was stregs (which were eligible for the troop transits to Poland. The guarding preparedness for railway protection was currently used in the Verban- de der i-VT-Standarte "Der Führer". Thus, as the Transport Commandant Prague has also expressed in its transcript attached to the Wehrmacht authorized representative, the military character of the guard is proved. If the Wehrmacht authorised representative now points out that I would have agreed that the costs arising from the use of the watch-keeping readiness should not be borne by the Wehrenmacht, but by the police, this is a misconception insofar as it cannot be the cases in which the readiness to watch - as in previous years - is concerned.