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| B. Measures Outside the Judicial Process — Protective Custody Transfer of Persons to Concentration Camps and the Police | |
| TRANSLATION OF KLEMM DOCUMENT 28 DEFENSE EXHIBIT 28 |
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| ORDER OF PRUSSIAN MINISTRY OF JUSTICE, 15 MARCH 1934, INFORMING AUTHORITIES OF GOERING'S DECREE OF 11 MARCH 1934, AUTHORIZING THE GESTAPO AND CERTAIN PRUSSIAN AUTHORITIES TO ORDER PROTECTIVE CUSTODY FOR POLITICAL REASONS* | |
| No.76 Order concerning measures
of protective custody, Executive Order of the Prussian Ministry of Justice of
15 March 1934 (I 3540), German Justice, page 341. On account of its importance also with regard to the official sphere of activities of judicial authorities, I hereby inform these authorities of the following decree, by the Prussian Minister-praesident (Secret State Police), dated 11 March 1934. |
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| Berlin, 11 March 1934 | |
| The Prussian Ministerpraesident
[Goering] Secret State Police Insp. 1946/11 March 34 Subject: Order concerning protective custody Effective immediately I order the following: 1. The regulations which so far dealt with competence with regard to the application of protective custody for political reasons are cancelled. In future restrictions of personal freedom in accordance with article 1 of the Decree for the Protection of the People and State, dated 28 February 1933, may be ordered with elect on the entire state territory [of Prussia] by the Secret State Police Office only, and within their local fields of jurisdiction by the Oberpraesidenten, Regierungspraesidenten, the police president in Berlin and the local state police offices. The district police authorities, especially the Landraete, are no longer competent for such measures. The measures hitherto ordered by them will be rescinded as per 31 March unless they hate been extended by order of the competent police authorities of the constituent states. [Page 342] Offices of the Party and the affiliated organizations may not carry out arrests on their own initiative. In case of disobedience |
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*This order was printed in German Justice (Deutsche Justiz), 1934, 96th year, pp. 341 ff.
