English Translation

The head of the security police Berlin, 20 February 1942. and SD IV C 2.Allg-No. 42 025. To the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt (Verteiler C), all state police (Leit)stellen, the commanders of the SichPoludsD, 10/3 the higher Hi- and police leaders, the inspectors of SichPoludSD, commanders 11 41 the inspector of the concentration camps (with 2 prints for the camp commander of the KL Stutthof), group I B (12 prints), the office Iv (2 prints for collection sea 5.o. Unit II C 3 (2 prints). 1013.42 Subject: Establishment of the Stutthbf concentration camp. The former special camp Stutthof was taken over by order of the Reichsführers-i and Chief of the German Police with such an effect as a state concentration camp with the name "Stutthof concentration camp". As camp commander, the former commander of the Stutthof special camp, -Hauptsturmführer der Waffen-ij P a u 1 y, was used by the inspector of the concentration camps. Postal address: "To the camp commander of Stutthof concentration camp near Danzig, *el.Nr.:29l Stut thof b/Danzig." The StutTHof concentration camp calculates to level I and is now considered as a training camp. This decree is not intended for the county and local police authorities. Addition for the state police station Gdańsk: I request that, with regard to all prisoners of protection, with the exception of those in which the protective detention and transfer to a concentration camp has already been arranged, enter into a review of the continued detention. Unless a release is possible for these prisoners, the protective detention and Zinweisung in a concentration C.S.1C-48/42 is immediately available.