English Translation

54a - 66 - IV. The NKVD in comparison to the RMdI or RF4. On closer examination of the administrative structure of the SU. there are some obvious parallels to the administration in the Reichsgebiet. The nkvD. can be roughly compared with the Reich Ministry of the Interior. The Russian border guard can be compared to the German border police. It is strictly military and represents in the SU. according to the length of the border and the size of the tasks a special acid in the administrative apparatus of the NkvD.. The generous expansion of this Russian border guard was apparently the precondition for the handling of its extensive tasks. It is probably also thanks to the independent management of this organization that it has, as is acknowledged, fulfilled its duties well and almost hermetically completed the Russian area against foreigners. In addition, customs officers working at border inspection points have to follow the instructions of the border guards, so that in practice the customs, which in itself is admi- nistratively under the foreign trade commissioner, is under constant control of the frontier guards or of the NkwD. The central administration of the state security - GuGB. -, the temporary NkGB. resp. The former GPU., is this same organization as the secret state police in the Reich or.