English Translation

119 - 2 - of the order in question. By the commander of the security police (4-Oberführer Stahlecker) - in agreement with the chief of the Security Police - already in the course of 1939 with the commander the order police, lieutenant-general of Kamptz, an agreement was reached on this and to the RF u.Ch.d.Pol. - Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei - under the 25.07.39 the request to approach the Hauptamt of the regulatory police for the annulment of this decree. However, this should not affect the reporting of the activities of the police, nor should it affect the supervision of the judicial police in the Czech political sector and thus the possibility of a political defence of the men of the administrative police. It is therefore proposed that the authorities of the police department should submit all the political messages directly to the local SD service (the corresponding services and units should be designated in agreement between the police command and the BdS), for which the SD section provides the required number of monthly reports to the police officer. The following examples from a report by the police battalion 2o7 in Iglau (which is enclosed in full text) shed light on the problem of such a reporting activity of the police: Section 1 a: It has not yet become known in the SD that intolerant or unjust behaviour of German government commissioners and officials had prevented previously unrecorded Germans from reporting on Germanism. It must also be said that it is wrong to criticise the attitude of the German Government Commissioner von Wesselz on the question of the appointment of a man of trust for the district court in Polna. The same applies to the statement on the order of the Government Commissioner in Illemnik-Herlenz. The rapporteur points out in particular that in these places there is, in some cases, a considerable -3 -