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INXZC it. MIINVIER for instance, is the Ardaufestelle (Reporting Centre)
or HOLUM;
, .
(Note by"IZes It had been noticed previously that A319 agents retu7n_ing
to.Geroany from PRANCE would usually report first in STUTTGART, L.ke1,1,B2R
and oths.re.)
(a) ABW. iiiialSOBUTZ(Factox Guard.
When HERZ was last in Gemany, in October 194.3, it was generally
rumoured th.at‘ HIMMLER would incorporateein his system, and thus place.
'under SS court jurisdiction, most of the remaining independent polf.ce forces
.outside SCHUPO. The Frontier Guards had already been atacheCt. to .L.2 Vi ( tv)
• (STAP0). The fire brigades had .been incorporated'in sC,:120 a Hifspolizei-
_beamte (Auxiliary police officials) in the FeueriSschpollr...ei. ("Fire
• extinguishing police"). SEW and LUFTSCHUTZ (permanent and non-penmnent
ARP) had become part of SCHLTO. New also the guards of the state railways
and postal. services (Bahnpolizei and Postschutz' are to be attached to it.
• However, ABW still controls the WERKSCHUTZ (Works or Actory guards). \
This body existed before the war. It protects the entire armament industry,
• ,factoriee, works and-other establishments employed in production of essentials
for the armed forces. It keeps a careThl check of employees, especially
of the numerous foreigners, now working in these factories. At all
etitrancee to factories these guards control passes and identity cards. All
• 'gourds wear uniform, the colour and shape of which'deper.ds on the whim of \
•MOP the director of the factory who has to pay for th2 men and their clothing.
• . In cash factory there is a chief of WERKSCHUTZ, trolled Abwehrbeauftragter
des - Werkschutzes (ABW deputy for Works Guards) who is an employee of ABW.
2614 . Before admission td Werkschustz, the AST of the relevant CAU
requests the vetting of canadates by the local STAPO. JIM checked sthe
history and sk ii.ticai backgrbund of several of these men while at ST,TO,
HAMBURG. On the papers of candidates, Section WI (Wirtschaft) of ABW
must given as the authority for WERKSCHUTZ.
(f) GFP GEHEDNE FKLDPOLIZ"EI • (Secret. Fielc3. Police.)
•(Note by'1.0.: The equivaldnt to the British W. Not to be confused.
with Feldgendannerie, which is not "secret" and' corresponds to the British
- The difference between British and German nomenclature should be
toted.. The- word "Gendarmerie" is used in German for the British "Police".
262. 'RP is.part of =MM. If employed wit,h -fighting formations
is under the _direct command of 1. c (q8.1). (Notelkr#00:„ Paeo:„;.,
0111` .101tiVi tti.OSYA'Ahe . front.) GFP does .not 'Di:action in '
ecCegied terrifory under German civil administration. There its work
is t.aken over by SIPO. occupied territory under Germ= milita ry* -
Sadministrations it is probably attached to ;.the local AST, perhaps also to
1 a. MEM know this first-hand. He frequented the Wintergarten Cabaret
• wtdle in ATHENS in Autumn 194.3. This place of amusement is out-of-
'
• ,bounds to German troops. In this cabaret he met the .ANP VI agent
TAPPENHECK, a Dutchman (SLY, Report No.6, p.8, para 64. b.), and two
Greek dancer-hostesses, for one of whom, "SUSIE", he delivered a letter
• to her sister in ISTANBUL (SI TE Report Ne65, Chapter C, end of pi7)
A German "civilian" watched HERZ closely. The Greekd.rls told HERZ later
tliat' this man had asked them v to report to him on two suspicious Swedes
who Were frequently in the Wintergarten. On the following e . ,y, at the
• end of September 194.3, Polizeiattacho H6SS1 T RAR2H told KURZ 4-:lat AST
ATI= orl. a (irer crtain which) had telephoned to him and had enquired
about Herz. HOS 1141.RTH added that this enquiry was due to a member
of GFP who had been at the Wintergarten.