English Translation

The Ghef of the Security Police and SD. Berlin, 17 July 1944. III A 5 c No. 340/43-177-2 Quick letter! inisteram An a) the commanders of the security police and of the SS, 30.JULI 1944 b) the commanding officers of the Security Pölizei and SD, c) the state police (head offices), d) the criminal police (lead posts), e) the SD (head office) sections, in writing: f) the superiors and police leaders, the inspectors of security police, and the SD, h) Office IV, in the house,) three times each. i) Office V, in house. ) Subject: Protection of persons who claim to be a police officer. Reference: Decrees of the Chief of Security Police and SD. a) v. 28.3.1939 S - No 3 No 2397/38, b) v_l3.7.194l IV C 2 General No 41 201. By the above omissions of 28.3.1939 and l3.7.l94l it is ordered that persons who pretend to be a police officer must be admitted to a concentration camp after the denunciation of the judicial penalty, and that such nassation must be made public in the press. the extension and tightening of the criminal proceedings against measures of 9 April 19942 (RGBl. I p.174), according to which the death penalty is threatened in serious cases of the order of office and thus taken into account the police concerns, the previous handling according to the decrees of 28.3.1939 and 13.7. .194l is no longer necessary in every pitch. The decrees of 28.3.1939 and 13.7.194l will therefore not have immediate effect in this respect. In the future, the imposition of protective custody against false police officers and the publication in the press will only have to be carried out in special cases. The State Police (headquarters) or Criminal Police (lead posts) have added the courts in each individual parlour to the special points of view which require, for example, the imposition of the death penalty. Cases which have not been adequately assessed by the judiciary in the interests of the security police V\1f-28a/49