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ant and operational headquarters cf the SD, g ar
Indication of the scope of acti- ities assigned to he SD. The
title of the office "Deutsche L^bensgeb !•? te'' (Germx Spheres of
Life) suggests the nultitude of .function;} Involved 7.a all
spheres of political, economic, cultural,.local, illltary
controls and opera-ions, the jurisdiction and risibility
of the SD war .vell-nlgh all-inc usive» auporvi-ed R net­
work of espionage in which practically all agencie , public
and private, and every single Individual inside Gevcany and a
subs .antial nuTiber abroad, were enmeshed.. No publ .c authority,
including the Government, no organisation, Including tlie Nazi
Party, the SS, and the Gestapo s and no inc.ividual, including TIazi
leaders, were exempt from investigation and dencun emont by SD
agentso
Little loub': can be entertained tliat It was the officioncy,
smoothness, end thoroughness of trie SD machine v counted
substantially for the rise of IE rar.iler and for the ainance
of the SS over German public and private life* SD agiuits fore:
thair way into the school system, cultural pursuit • id entertain­
ment. propaganda, ";he churches, the law, the military r.dainlstra-
tlon and military intelligence, the Goverr.nenx;, th lce3 labor
(par icularly foreign labor), production, supply, and rorelgn
trade, food ani agriculture, transportation and co:5r.nraications,
the Administration of occupied r.erri torlos, etc, . ta, so-
called Lageberichte, submitted by SD agents as a r of their.
findings, foimod the basis for iegal, administrative, judicial,
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