English Translation

15(a) 24 would be a different legal status according to the Reichsdivisions, which would have to influence the unity of the State police and their right in an undesirable declining sense and would have the effect of impairing the uniform leadership and everywhere even impact of the defense. The secret state police are today a unitary organization under a central administration, their authorities are Reich authorities, their officials direct Reich officials. It would mean a weakening of their unity, if this organization were to operate regionally according to various legal principles. As a matter of fact, uniform legal principles have already emerged for your work at an early stage without explicit legal standardisation. Thus, the conversion of the task 1 of the Prussian Secret State Police in 1936 meant even then nothing other than the polished formulation of a legal sentence already recognized in all countries. Even at that time, the means of defense were subject to uniform principles. The same opponent everywhere forced a uniform use to make it impossible for elements hostile to the state to move from one country to another, because their legal position was more favourable here than there. The same task and the same principles of commitment also require an all-embracing form of control. Otherwise, the enemy of the state would still be able to act under more favourable conditions than in other parts of the Reich where the administrative courts continue to act as control bodies over state police measures. It would also be inevitable that certain questions concerning parts of the empire would be decided differently and that in this detour the existing unity of the right of action of the secret state police would be blown up again. 1) Prussia Act on the secret police of 10 February 1936 (collective law p.21,28),§ 1. 70404