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

oth %s cau o£ EXEet, Both act3c f.s th9 lc ml listening poets for tho
SD~Lo.i uitte and SD-Abschnitto and both «ere administratively oub-
s
ordinate i > the SD»(Leit)~AbBohait}; ir. their areas. In I944t there were
altogsthw 56 SD«=He.up t auseenatellen, and 556 SD-Auseens'^e 1 len in Greater
Germany« lowaver» during the wax t^nd particularly curing the German
retrevt., a large nistber of SD-Absol ritte were doungra^ed to become SD~
Ausee ast-jl len-.
In addition to the system of regional tnd local agendas,
the S3 (niintailnod a vast networic of Individual agents to spy on praoti»
cally every household in the last (iemaa haslete, Thesj agents were
regular Full-tia* Kenb3rs of tha Sit and iter3 assisted by honorary members«
Both full« bins and honorary age at a controllod and dir«c ;ed the work of so-
called Btto mooter (obsarvers)» i.*&c9 spies placed in factories, offices,,
and even f urtr/ organizations, including the 3S itself; so-called Vert»
rauoninaor. 3r (oonfidentlal egents.) vt\o received their orders frox, end
reporxd \ •>> the Beobachter; end s,
generally naployed on a tempore rj laais only» to secure certain specific
items cf i iformation.
(t) Outside C-erguuiy. Outaid any* regional headqutrtsrs
of th> S) >ocisicnal?.y formed breach offices, i*va0 Aua \es!±'.'jL±:^iloB {'fir
CojBaanisL) c* AussenEtullea (Gutpoet*:)« In genera?., höherer, -che major ad-
mini strative burden una oarried oy ihe combined HQ of EiPo and SDo In
contra it -c the situation outside Germany, SD activity ia occupied Europe
had more of a field~-ope -rational aeture, tilth omphr.sie en sexai-mLlix-ary
action^ rand was oarried out, usunlly, in covabinod ocnoajxda of SiPo and S.30
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