English Translation

It is necessary, rather, to examine from the point of view of our national order. III. Each legal institution owes its existence to a certain ideological attitude and political situation. It is therefore called into question as soon as a new time with a different worldview and other political tasks creates its own order of life. This is also evident from the fact that new institutions are in conflict with old principles. The situation of the German police in relation to the national police law system, as marked by the Reichsführer-H and head of the Deutsche Polizei in the above- quoted statements 1), had a very first and most important effect on the secret state police. The secret state police was founded as a corps of protection of the new National Socialist state against all those who undertake to shake its existence and its further development, as a special force to research and combat all state-hazardous aspirations. It soon proved impossible to fulfil this task of protection within the framework of the legal institutions and legal provisions under which the political police had to become active so far; these institutions also included administrative jurisdiction in particular. The deeper reason for this situation lies in the fact that this form of control of police measures belongs to that world which belongs to the National Socialist 1) See above p. 11 f. 2) Cf. Frank Himmler-Best-Höhn, Grundfragen der deutschen Polizei, pp. 11 et seq., p. 21 ff.