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bschrift. I High Command of the Wehrnecht Bln.-Schöneberg, 22. XI. 1941 Az. 2 f 24.19 AWA/Kriegsgef. (16) Badenschestr. 51. Betr.: Behandlung soviet POW. 1) The following order is published in the Wehrnacht Ordnungsblatten: "All soldiers are obliged to pay attention to every unintentional Soviet prisoner, to arrest him if he is to be detained at the next police station. If a prisoner of war camp is in the immediate vicinity, the prisoner of duty must be transferred there. Nisteram OKW, 29th October 1941 13 SEP 1344 Soveit are returned to the camp under this command by Soviet prisoners of war, they are to be handed over in any case to the nearest department of the secret state police. 2) Because of the present. Even more frequently occurring crimes of so-called prisoners of war, which seem to have their main reason in their not yet regulated life relations, will be overturned as follows; a later change will be reserved. If a Soviet prisoner of war in the camp commits a murder, manslaughter or crime for which a criminal code is lacking in German criminal law, the perpetrator must be made available to the head of the security police. In the case of other prisoners of war, the commander-in-law has to hand over the perpetrator to the head of the security police if he does not win the conviction that a measure of execution or judicial punishment, which is to be expected after recall with the court of war council, is sufficient to maintain the rightful status of the camp. 3) In case l u.2. the prisoner of war must be released from the prisoner-of-war and the surrender to the secret state police must be reported to the Wehrmachtssuslunftstelle, as far as a registration has already been carried out.