English Translation

N - 2 the Soviet prisoners of war coming to Stalags for work have already been checked, where this was inconceivable as a result of the imposition of quarantine, the check has to be completed after the suspension of the detention. Only really heavy and permanently unsustainable elements are to be excluded, which would mean a serious danger in the use in war-important enterprises (red confiscations, politruks, functionaries of the NKVD and the KPaSÜ etc.). A fair balance is made between safety measures and the urgent need for the use of labour in the armaments industry. In the event of a review of those already in work - or the leader of the labour command - the political and other behaviour of the suspect prisoners must be questioned in any case. I ask you to instruct the commanders of the Operations Commands accordingly and to hand over to them the over-exemplars included in the annex to the manual.