English Translation

18a - 30. Furthermore, it must be assumed that the will of the Reichsführung corresponds to the solution most useful in the general order. 7. The investigations have shown that the control of state police measures by the administrative courts has created a foreign body in the organization of state security as it has been built up by National Socialism. It has proved to be highly appropriate to paralyse the defence of anti-state aspirations. It is appropriate to call into question the unity of the secret state police and their authority, and to intimidate the equally powerful forces of defence everywhere; it is thus, to such an extent, incompatible with the tasks of the state security that it is, as part of the order of these tasks, inconceivable. It is reasonable that the National Socialist State on the one hand has built up an absolutely reliable and powerful defence organization, but on the other hand it is equally dulled by the insinuation of its measures under administrative control. Therefore, those legal regulations which declared the administrative dispute proceedings against state police measures in individual parts of the Reich to be inadmissible cannot be regarded as individual manifestations and anti-systematic exceptions which have left the contrary principle untouched in other sections of the Empire, but as the expression of a new principle, which, even without the introduction of the law, claimed uniform application of the empire and amended the contrary pre-national socialist regulations. The most complete expression of this new principle is the formulation of § 7 of the Prussian Act on the Secret State Police of 10.2,36. In the following years, the form of the secret state police, which was then given in Prussia, has been extended to the entire empire, after its reunification with the Empire, also to the Cstmark. The regulation, which was initially tailored to the Prussian form of the secret state police,