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feared by the enemies of the State has
contributed most to the fact that today there can no longer be talk of
a Communist or Marxist danger in Germany and Prussia."
THE PRESIDENT: What was the date?
COL. STOREY: The date? 1934, Sir.
On November 30, 1933 Göring issued a decree for the Prussian State
Ministry and the Reich Chancellor placing the Gestapo under his direct
supervision as Chief. The Gestapo was thereby established as an
independent branch of the Administration of the Interior responsible
directly to Göring as Prussian Prime Minister. This decree gave the
Gestapo jurisdiction over the political police matters of the general
and interior administration and provided that the district, county, and
local police authorities were subject to the directives of the Gestapo —
and that cites the Prussian laws of 30 November 1933, Page 413, and
Document 2105-PS.
In a speech delivered at a meeting of the Prussian State Council on 18
June 1934, which is published in Speeches and Essays of Hermann Göring,
1939, Page 102, our Document 3343-PS, Göring said, and I quote one
paragraph:
"The creation of the Secret State
Police was also a necessity. You may recognize the importance
attributed by the new State to this instrument of state security from
the fact that the Prime Minister, himself, has made himself head of
this department of the administration just because it is the
observation of all currents directed against the new State which is of
fundamental importance."
By
a decree of 8 March 1934 the regional State Police offices were
separated from their organizational connection with the District
Government and established as independent authorities of the Gestapo.
That cites the Preussische Gesetzsammlung of 8 March 1934, Page
143, our Document 2113-PS.
I now offer in evidence Document Number 1680-PS, Exhibit USA-477. This
is an article entitled "10 Years of Security Police and the SD,"
published in the German Police journal, the magazine of the Security
Police and SD, of 1 February 1943. 1 quote one paragraph from this
article on Page 2 of the English translation, Document 1680-PS, which is
the third main paragraph:
"Parallel to that development in
Prussia, the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler created in Bavaria
the Bavarian Political Police and also suggested and directed the
establishment of Political Police in the Under other than Prussia. The
unification of the Political Police of all the Under took place in the
spring of 1934 when Minister President Hermann Göring