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| permanent prisoner-of-war camps [Stalags] and
transit camps [Dulags]. Appendices: 2 stitched enclosures, 1 and 2, 1 loose enclosure. I am enclosing directives for the purging of the prisoner camps which contain Soviet Russians. These' directives have been formulated in agreement with the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces — Prisoners of war department — (see enclosure 1). The commanders of the prisoner-of-war and transit camps (Stalags and Dulags) have been informed by the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces. I request that a Kommando consisting of one SS Leader and 4-6 men be detailed for the prisoner-of-war camps in that area. If additional forces are needed to carry out the required tasks, I am to be informed at once. I draw attention, however, to the fact that the state police offices in the Reich, which are not concerned, are so understaffed that further forces cannot be taken from them. In order to facilitate the execution of the purge, a liaison officer is to be sent to Generalmajor [Brigadier General] von Hindenburg, Commander in Chief of the prisoner-of-war camps in the Military District I, East Prussia, in Koenigsberg, Prussia, and to Generallieutnant [Major General] Herrgott, Commander in Chief of the prisoner-of-war camps in the General Government in Kielce. The following are to be detained at once as liaison officers: criminal Councilor Schiffer, regional Gestapo headquarters Stettin, to Brigadier General von Hindenburg* in Koenigsberg, Prussia, and criminal Commissar Raschwitz, with the commander of the Security Police and of the SD in Krakow, to Major General Herrgott in Kielce. The duty of those liaison officers is to coordinate from time to time, and especially in the initial stages of the action, the operations of the Kommandos uniformly and in accordance with those directives, and to see that there are smooth communications with the offices of the armed forces. For the execution of the tasks assigned to the Kommandos in the prisoner-of-war camps, I attach — as enclosure 2 — directives for the Kommandos of the chief of the Security Police and of the SD to be detailed to the permanent [prisoner-of-war] camps (Stalags), of which the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces and, therefore, also the regional commanders and camp commanders have been informed. Before carrying out the executions, the leaders of the Einsatz-[...kommandos] |
* Oskar von Hindenburg, son of the former Reich president.
