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

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any rate SP and Sipo may frequently have performed similar,
if not, identical functions. i\ number of functions ind crimes
listed below thus may be attributable to either 02- both trie ST)
and Sipo. Although In most caaes the SD may have confined Itself
to doing the intelligence part of the project, an the Sipo the
executive on;
iio origin and History of tha SD, The Sloherhelts-
dienst (SD) 3::lsted prior to the advent of the Nazis to power.
The 3D, in fact, was © typical creation of the ''Kampfzeit"
{period of struggle), in which the Party and all Party forma­
tions organiaod so-called ''Ha; sfc richte nile.aste" (intelligence
services) of their own to the end of counteracting '''designs of
attack on destruction" by tho opponents with the help of "re*-
eonnoitering und evaluating" .1 No attorapt was made to act ac
cording to an over-all plan or to co-ordinate the various in­
telligence services at a central place»
The SS, in consequence., ran its own intelligence service
within the frcnework of the functions allotted to bhls formation.
This was the to-called "IC-Dienst", later named the PI »Dienst
(Presap-Infornatlons-Dlenst - Press Information Service). Head
of this service wss Reinhard lleydrlch, one of Hinmler's closest
advisers and nost ruthless hangfton. Heydrlch succeeded In build-.
ing up the PI-Dlenst to the most powerful intelligence service
the Nazi system. In an article in the official ms^u: iae of the
lo d'Alquen, D^iL-aS' p ° 21
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