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Volume III · Page 568
| d. The Withholding of Criminal
Proceedings against Persons Participating in "Lynch Justice" against allied Fliers |
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| TRANSLATION OF KLEMM DOCUMENT 68a KLEMM DEFENSE EXHIBIT 68a |
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| DECREE OF HIMMLER
TO ALL HIGHER SS AND POLICE LEADERS, 10 AUGUST 1943, CONCERNING "CONTROVERSIES BETWEEN GERMAN CITIZENS AND PARACHUTED ENGLISH AND AMERICAN TERROR FLIERS" |
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| Personal Staff Diary Nr.48/16/42 g Bra/Bn To: All Higher SS and Police Leaders |
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| Personal Staff Reich
Leader SS Archive SECRET File Nr. Secret/121/21 |
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| By order of the Reich Leader SS I am sending you enclosed a decree with the request to bring it to the attention of all commanders of the police and Security Police who are to inform orally all their subordinate agencies of its contents. In addition, the Reich Leader SS requests that the competent Gauleiter be orally informed of this decree. | |||
| [Signed] BRANDT
SS Obersturmbannfuehrer |
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| Der Reich Leader SS Rf/Bn 48/16/42 g |
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| Personal Staff Reich
Leader SS Archive File Nr. Secret/121/21 Field Command Post, 10 August 1043 |
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| It is not the task of the police to interfere in controversies between German citizens and parachuted English and American terror fliers. | |||
| [Signed] H. HIMMLER | |||
