English Translation

The head of the security police Berlin, 1 August 1991 and the SD - IV D 1 b - B.Nr.624/40g-39- GEHEIMI To all a d23 State Secretary Un Reichsprotektor State police head offices in Bohmen and mahren. informlich y 12. AUG. 1941 a) the higher - and police leaders Tgu. No.: b) the inspectors of the safety police and SD c) the commanders of security police and of SD. Subject: Confession of German nationals to the Czech Republic with the intention of evading compulsory military service: recent increases in cases where German nationals are evading compulsory military duties by acknowledging the Czech people. Although in principle members of the Czech people should not be used for the fulfilment of the compulsory military service in the German Wehrnacht, it seems inadmissible that German nationals, who are at the census or by other reasons of will, e.g. entry into the NSDAP, its members, formations and other associations, should join the Deutschtu. I hereby order that German national courts, who are obviously committed to Czechism in order to avoid their compulsory military service, be arrested in the future and placed in a concentration camp. Such applications must be submitted to the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt - IV D 1 - in duplicate. In special cases, in particular where German nationals who, by their commitment to Germanism, have gained opportunities (e.g. in the case of arisi- ia), wish to withdraw from compulsory military service by sudden concreteness of their Czech national activity, the statement of the people and of the ./. St. S. 18-23/41.00