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emoved- frOM effien-766mnethis forber SIR) prMtbotors. , chief among than . O.GeAMT IV D2, who was pdstied into iaCtion and thus possible fa4dation...in :eSIP0- . In Einsatziammande (8Z2O Field Unit) in Yugoslavia early 1945..': • , . Organisation Of ho IITMVUR Machine. Under direct command of HIMALER, aside from the Ministry of the interiort are SS, Waffen SS (except formations or units attached to the Germany krmy), SIFO, SCHUTO with Gendarmerie, Fire Police, ,rmgulardand auxiliary fire:fighting services, and SS and Police Loaders, 'UPC and SCHUPO Inspectors..:. • SS (Se=tz Staffel) .• SS Hauotamt LITZ can•give few detAls as he had little - or no direct contact with thin organisation. -Chef des SS Hauptamte% . •SS ObergruppenfUhrer . (mCelonel-Gonerol), probably HEISSMEYER. 2414 , - SS and Pollee Courts. 'Attached administratively to SS Hauptamt. Originally intended only for disciplinary action inside SS and Police (SCHUR) and SIP0). Since the incorporation of fire brigades and auxiliary -serVices in SCHUPO, a,/arge proportion of the adult population, through rmmbership in ARP, is now , subject to disciplinary action of these courts. If now members of almost the entire civil administration may be judged by .1:;:thoSe courts, their influence will vastly increa&e. SS and Police, Courts ero,independentef civil courts and no appeal is possible from their judgment .1nd verdict. (Note: This feature appeals least of all to NEM, who-has been ,told that e. severe sentence by these courts seems inevitable.) SS and Police Courts function also in* occupied territory under German civil administration, in CRACOW. (See - SIV2 Report No.5, Chapter,p, p.1, 11 and 12 June 1943. Fel.' SS'and SIE0 court read Police Court in Report NO: 5)-. 142. Ohara SS Und Polizeifahrer (Senior SS and Police Leaders). Generally i'l..bold.the . .zunk of SS.,Gruppenfdhrer. In the Reich there is one for every . - - ..politicolGau..41dministratively these high-ranking . officers ate Possibly ." rAtttiched-to SS Hauptamt; though MESS is not colartain. In reality they arc :eppointed directlYibyHMEER from among his own trusted S8 officials and report to him .direbtlY,On any of the organisations in the machine.: Thus a Aunl.contro 4.4.1i4orce.in SO and SCHUPO, the chief SS and Police Loader ;aCting as 4.40,4iervice. In the Reich this control is exercised by him t ii'tubOrdinato6,-imeccuPied:lerritory'he is the direct 'T,S/IOhlarmeric, local or native police forces, C.I.D., 1tire fig . all**nqrvices, as well. is Of :SS and Waffen SS, of the lattor only , h0are not attached to an army .,as fighting formations. The SIPO:chief'Ofan:OCCupied territory (Befehlshaber der SIFO) reports to him and alserto :4MTITD. There is one senior 35 and Police Leader in every - '..-'.occupied territory Or country which has a German civil administration; there ;,..innene in "enemy" .countries under German milita administration. •: Names Of Senior 'SS and Police Leaders Known to MERZ: :SS GrupPorifilhrer KNIT, 1-18herer SS und Polizeifiihrer in the Waxthegau (POSUI or POZNAN). Chief SS and Police Leader in Austria until his • , appointment, aS Chief of SIPO.' • - SS . tank. of SS Brigadqpihrer. the Reich their function is . Chiefly the und: Polizeielhrer (SS and Police Leaders). • Generally hcia the reot supervision of and Waffen SS •(with tc latter only the personnel :416t... attached:to a Aird.Y on active front service). They do not generally . ..nuperviSO S110 or saipp activities. SS and Police Leaders are under the .;dirvet . COntrol ef,thetenior Leader in . theirGau.: Theoretically, there is one .•.Leader for "each Regierungsbozirk WministrativoEistrict corresponding to 1ho nuObetof S.D. • Stellen District 'offices), or 2/3 to a Gan.: Many OtthciTosts*em,net : tO have been filled, probably owing to a dearth 'of '::SS Units in the Rogicrungsbezirk. In occupied territory SS and Police
Leaders supervise the work of all SIPO Keranondeure (S.D., ST,P0 and KPIPO nombined) and ef,the . Gendarnerie, local police and auxiliary Services. . :Theroinwin thcOLicl .:, they are directly : under the Senior SS and Police Leader Of the,ocenpied territory or coentry. Their nubber depends upon the size of: the COurrtry. In the leneraigouvernement there are 5, one for each - Inspoktetuo der srpq. Only inside the Reich, one for each political Gau or for each Senior SS and Polio7.1 Load=. In occupied territory their work '.4s taken over by SS and Polio° Leaders. An inseekteur is subject only to the .direct order of the Senior SS and Police Loader ard reports to him on SIFO activities in his Gnu. He is conaidered a specialist and covers a - larger territory than an SS and Police leader, although both usually hold the : same S. rank. Though both are under a Senior SS and Police Leader their spheres of work seem to he en']iroly divorced from one another, 6. Inspekteur der SC7770 (including Gendarmerie and all auxiliary • services of SCHUPO, including Fire "Police", permanent uniformed and civilian ARP). Functions, number and responsibility similar to SIPO inspectors. (Note Inspekte-tr, with the stress on the last syllable, is more high sounding to the German ear than Inspektor, with the stress on the . second syllable.) 5. (f) (g) SI10. Described in detail in Chapter L, below. SCHTPO(SCHUTZFOLIZEI = "Protectivc" Police, or Police Force). (Inside the Reich only, including annexed territory.) • 147.. SCHUPO Hauptamt. Chief of SCIMO: DLUEGE, This"civil" police force is incorporated, and has it headquarters, in tae , Einis7 of Interior (Reichsministerium des loners), but is subject to SS discipline through the SS and Police Courts. The Gendarmerie (Ell the military Feldgendarmeric) has been:a branch of SCHUPO for many years. Recently all fire fighting services, regular and auxiliary, uniformed and civilian, have been incorporated! in the SCHUPO and are now subject to discipline of SS and Police Courts. In October :943 there was talk of incorporating in SCHUPO also the Railway and Fostall"ottce forces (Bahhpolizei and Postschutz). • .A:„.„,2CED10-: The original Urban police force of the Reich, new only • , — SCHUPO .i_GENDARMERIE. 'A branch of SCHUF% with a wider range of'activityt ahacfly in rural districts-. TEUE SCHPOLIZEI "(Fire Fighting" Police). Until recently called enema* (Fiik Brigade). Now an auxiliary police force, with limited police functions but still continuing their former chief task of putting out and preventing fires. All their 20 now has painted on it the police siEn FOL. 151. H D = Selbsthilfsdienst . (Self,Ud Serype). A full time fire fighting scxvice, attached to and assisting Feuerloschpolizei, but only as an auxiliary fire brigade, not as auxiliary police. Members are mostly recruited from category or graded or older men, unfit for active service or other heavy • :vier Iwo*. neywear uniform at all times and live in barracks. Recently ' .• :.incorporated it - SCHUF0 as an auxiliary service, and thus subject to SS and . • . 1!FolieeCourt discipline. 152. , UTMOHUTZ (i1:141°). woll-!cnovn body of civilian men and women, • in every city: town, village and hamlet, .cs ic•onsibly a fire-watching and • -.fighting SerTiCt, in fact o saturated with Nazi informers. Recently administrAiVely under SCIEPO and their 55 and Police Court discipline.
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