R & A No. 3113.7 / Principal Nazi Organizations Involved in the ...

Thesr officers -par© responsible to \Sbm Fahrer of the Qtembaolniitt (SS
Regional District) \it©r© they fbocticnedj, and thua actsd aa a cireot link
between the factories and the SSo
SS Jndu;jtrieachutananRsoba:?t3r> (Industrial irafeiy Grown)« These
units mere cadges of SS officers in charge of empUyees of plante, tfho
served as liaison officers with the various forces of Ihm Ordnutf,spolisei
(Regular Policu) ooncerood with fir.v fighting and passive air»ra:'.d precautions-
Hafensicherungstruppen (Port Security Trocpe)c Those special unite
of the Allgeasins SS whloh patrolled tie waterfronts of the na^or ports in
cooperation with polico authoritios ami the Security Service, especially
during raids j, -.«ere at the disposal of tho Chit ft; of the coastr.1 HS Ober-
abschnitt« (No:-dRest, Hordsee, 0sts3c, and Nordost, « Ihoy reixi'orced the
regular Y&BserachutapoliKei (Waterways Protection Iolice)o
Bordschutznannschaf ten (Shipboard Security Crews). By
proclamation, in 1941, of SS Obergruppenfülirer Karl Eeufmann,
Reich Commissioner for Merchant; Shipping* Ü1 ships plying for
Germany's war effort which wa.?e nianned per ;iaXly or entirely
by Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, ind other non-German crews were
have on board so-called Bords ;huGs;iaann3chaften. 7h33e units
were assigned by the Führer of tie Obecab3 ihnitt in the ports
from which the vessels clearei* The proclamation said these
units would n !aan flak guns an! aasi3t the iJerrmn officers of
such ships ana provide security ?or the non-Germar. crew members» 1 '
It was not stoted whether or not these cr-eMrs v;ere subject to
maritime law, r.or was their relationship to the inesters of such
vessels defined. Actually, tiese crew members were tools in
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