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TRANSLATION OF
VON BUELOW DOCUMENT 311
DEFENSE EXHIBIT
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| TELETYPE OF THE GESTAPO CHIEF, SS GENERAL MUELLER, 20 JULY 1943,
CONCERNING WORKERS' TRAINING CAMPS, NOTING THESE CAMPS ”ARE EXCLUSIVELY A
POLICE MEASURE” |
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SECRET STATE POLICE, STATE POLICE
REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS
DUESSELDORF |
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Received
Day, month, year, time
20 July 1943, 2230
From:
Through: R. L No. 7001 |
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Place for “Received” stamp.
State Police Regional
Headquarters Duesseldorf |
IIL.-D10/2-Journal No. 263/428 |
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21 July 1943/II/L
Telegram - Radiogram - Teletype - Telephone
* * * BERLIN NUE 129 618 20 July 1943, 2000 — Fr —
To all
Inspectors of Security Police and Security Service (SIPO and SD)
To all
Directing STAPO Offices |
| Subject: |
Inspection of workers’ penal camps by Gau supervisors of the
German Labor Front |
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| Secret |
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| Confidential information has been received that, on account of a
complaint by the Foreign Office on the manner of treatment given to inmates in
workers’ penal camps, the German Labor Front has, in a “strictly
confidential” circular letter, requested Gau supervisors to report on
conditions in these workers’ penal camps. In addition, efforts are being
made by various Reich offices to send representatives to individual camps in
order to make the most of any detrimental observations which may have been made
against the Security Police. I therefore request approval of requests for
inspections of workers’ training camps by offices of the German Labor
Front or labor allocation offices to be granted only where this appears
advisable in the interest of collaboration and where it can be assumed that
these inspections will not be utilized for reports detrimental to the Security
Police and, above all, the installation of the workers’ penal camps.
Furthermore it is to be recommended that the chief of the State Police office
or his deputy be present at such inspections. Should representatives of other
offices, in particular of the Propaganda Ministry, request permission for an
inspection, an ascertainment |
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