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moved from place to place. NO ma n could obtain furlou^i paperswithout first obtaining a stamped statement from the local OTdoctor that he was free of vermin and from contagious diseases.(Prei von Ungeziefer und Ansteckenden Krankheiten), TO quote aninstance, out of 1,000 Russian prisoners who were delousedimmediately ipon their arrival in CHERBOURG (May 192+4), 750 had tobe deloused again within a few days.Inoculation especially against typhus and cholera, is supposedto be given to all OT personnel. The date and dosage are alsosupposed to be entered into a man f s Dienstbuch (Pay and Identitybook)* After examining several hundred such records, however,it is found that either the injections were overlooked entirely,or else, if given, no record of it kept. It is known that typhus,almost non-existent in civilized countries in recent years, wasrampant in the West where sanitary conditions certainly must havebeen more favourable than in the East or Southeast, In the Balkans,the OT had also to contend with wide-spreading malaria. Sincequinine was not available, malaria had to be treated with anti-pyrine.e) Security Administration and Units79» Rechts-und Diziplinarstelle (Lagal and Disciplinary Sub-section)The services of security were well organized in the OT and werehandled by units either forming an organic part of the OT or looselyattached to or co-operating with it. Each of these units isdiscussed separately below. The first is the Rechts-undDiziplinarstelle (Legal and Disciplinary Sub-section), This is asub-section in the Section Prontftlhrung in the administrativeorganization of all OT units up to and including the Oberbauleitung,As the name implies, this sub-section takes care of legal anddisciplinary matters. It has, however, only jurisdiction inrelatively small matters and can commit offenders to a penal campfor a period only up to 4 months. All the more serious transgressionsand crimes are dealt with by the military courts-martial.80» Schu t zkommandoThe second is the Schutzkommando (Security guard). The taskof enforcing law and order in the OT Camps and building sites lieschiefly in the hands of the Schutzkommando, also known by the oldername of SohutzkorpSj (both abbreviated SK). The staff of theSchut zkommando, called Schutzkommandoftthrung, is headed by aSchutzkommandoftthrer, and is attached to the section ProntfBhrung,as the Legal and Disciplinary Sub-section discussed above.The individual SK units are administered at OBL level; theirduties comppise the guarding of construction sites, warehouses,machines, explosives, fuel dumps, motor vehicle parks, materialequipment and food depots, and personnel camps within their respectiveOBL sectors* They are also employed in convoying prisoners, personneland material. In convoys one SK man is theoretically assigned toguard 20 workers; in the case oftt untrustworthy"personnel, suchas returned fugitives, the TO/WE calls for one SK man to ten "guarded"personnel. Due to the shortage of SK men, the actual proportionis about one third of TO/WE requirements. In the Balkans, Polandand Russia, the SK units had to be perpetually on the alert againstpartisan raids and were often fortified into Stfltzpunkte (Strong Points),Bi 1943 a critical shortage of SK men was caused by the Wehrraacht f sdrive to find suitable personnel for its armed forces. This weedingoutprocess left in SK only those Germans who were physically unfitfor active military service. (One SK Identity Book discloses under-86 ­