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port&nt tasks. The SD therewith is mating upon
Govejnnental order0 This requires close and
;•? m* thetic collaboration between the SD and the
iatrativo offices of the General Govarnmental
Administration and of she Administration of the
Interior."
Thus, the SD was designated to become an agent of the State,
although It remained a part and function of the Party«
aha t .ialcamafc5.cn of the functions of both agencies
occurred on 27 September 1959., when by decree of Himmler, tha
Hauptamt Sit Sierheitspollzel within the niniatry of the Interior
was merged cffioially with the SS~Sicherheitahauotamt to form
the Ra ichsaicherhe 1 tnhauptarnt (Reich Security tlain Office), which
was organized as part of the Reichsführung SS and of the Minis toy
of the Interioro Heydrich asnvroad the title of Chef der Sicher--»
heitspollaei mid des SD (Chle:? o? the Security Police and the SD)„
This step crooned «• development \/hich was lntendad to realize
"the principle of the '* or de ns; is s •; 1 gen' (lit.} ordar-likc) pormoafcion
of an institution of national crder (Volksordnun,;; by the carrier
of the National Socialist liovo&ant."l
Tha SD reached the pinnacle of its power In 1944 whan pai't
of the Abwehr of the OK.*.'» the intelligence service of the Supreme
Command of toe Armed Forces, passed to the jurisdiction of the SD«
lo Werner Bast, op. clt„, p. &4„
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