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89
. BAB, NS 19/755, Schieber order of 17 March 1942; IfZ, NO 505, Glücks to RFSS, 2 April 1942, concerning the preparations for rifle production in Buchenwald; furthermore preparations for the production of parts for the Weser-Flug company and for Klöckner in Neuengamme were being discussed
(NO 1215, note of Amtsgruppe C concerning a conversation with Schieber on 16 May 1942). See Schulte,
Zwangsarbeit
, 214 f.

90
. IfZ, NO 598, Himmler to Pohl, 7 July 1942; see also Schulte,
Zwangsarbeit
, 215.

91
. On the failure of SS armaments production see Schulte,
Zwangsarbeit
, 216 ff. In August 1943 Speer tried to blame the Gustloff-Werke for the failure of rifle production at Buchenwald (BAB, NS 19/367, Brandt to Pohl, 17 August 1943).

92
. Schulte,
Zwangsarbeit
, 224 and 231.

93
. Himmler to Speer, 5 March 1943 (BAB, NS 19/3637).

94
. Schulte,
Zwangsarbeit
, 218 f.; IfZ, NIK 15392, Pohl report to Himmler, 16 September 1942, published in Pingel,
Häftlinge
, 276 f.

95
. Boelcke (ed.),
Deutschlands Rüstung
, 20–2 September 1942; Schulte,
Zwangsarbeit
, 220 f.

96
. Orth,
System
, 169 ff; Mommsen and Grieger,
Volkswagenwerk
, 50 ff.

97
. On the changes in the structure of criminality see Wagner,
Volksgemeinschaft
, 316 ff.

98
. BAB, NS 19/219, published in Detlev Peukert,
Die Edelweißpiraten. Protestbewegungen jugendlicher Arbeiter im Dritten Reich. Eine Dokumentation
(Cologne, 1980), 156 f.

99
. Picker (ed.),
Tischgespräche
, 7April 1942.

100
. Wagner,
Volksgemeinschaft
, 314.

101
. Herbert,
Fremdarbeiter
, 167, on the basis of a post-war statement by the responsible RSHA representative, Bernhard Baatz.

102
. IfZ, PS-3040, contains the general regulations and the particular instruction to the security police and SD; see Herbert,
Fremdarbeiter
, 181 f.

103
. Doc. PS-654, Thierack minute of 18 September 1942, published in
IMT
, vol. 26, pp. 200 ff.;
Dienstkalender
. It was already normal practice for prisoners in the judicial system who, in the view of the police, had been given too lenient sentences to be taken into ‘preventive custody’. See Wagner,
Volksgemeinschaft
, 336.

104
. Wagner,
Volksgemeinschaft
, 337.

105
. The chief of the security police and SD laid down in an edict of 21 July 1942 that those considered unworthy of serving in the armed forces should be taken into preventive detention ‘on the first occasion of their committing a breach of their conditions’. The Reich Criminal Police Office issued an instruction on 28 December 1942 that in cases involving ‘those considered unworthy of serving in the armed forces’, before the case was handed over to the public prosecutor consideration should be given as to whether police preventive measures should be imposed (both documents in IfZ, Dc 17.02, collection of edicts concerning the preventive combating of crime); see Wagner,
Volksgemeinschaft
, 338 f.

106
. RSHA, 23 December 1942, published in Ifz, Dc 17.02, collection of edicts concerning the preventive combating of crime.

107
. Wagner,
Volksgemeinschaft
, 342 f.

108
. BAB, NS 19/4010, 14 October 1943, speech to the meeting of military commanders in Bad Schachen. It was printed under the title
Sicherheitsfragen. Vortrag, gehalten auf der Befehlshabertagung in Bad Schachen am 14. Oktober 1943
, ed. NS-Führungsstab des Oberkommandos der Wehrmacht (Berlin, 1943).

109
. Broszat,
Polenpolitik
, 152 ff.

1
. In this context one should bear in mind Himmler’s announcement in 1937 that, in the event of war, the SS had, apart from the three military fronts—on land, in the sea, and in the air—‘the German homeland’ as a ‘fourth theatre of war’ that it had to secure (doc. PS-1992 [A], Himmler’s speech on the essential nature and tasks of the SS given to a Wehrmacht course on national politics, 15–23 January 1937, published in
IMT
, vol. 29, pp. 206 ff., 231).

2
. BAB, NS 19/3402, 15 November 1942.

3
. Ibid. 10 December 1942. This document, as was usual with documents given to Hitler to read, was typed in especially large letters and is minuted ‘Abl.10.12.’.

4
.
Dienstkalender
, 10 December 1942; Himmler minute of 10 December 1942 (quoted in Ibid.) and Himmler to the RSHA (BAB, NS 19/1807).

5
. BAB, NS 19/1929, Draft, signed Himmler, and minuted: ‘Please submit to AH’, 18 December 1942.

6
. BAB, NS 19/120, Telex to Oberg, 30 December 1942. On the preparations for and implementation of the measures taken in Marseilles see Meyer,
Besatzung
, 115 ff.

7
. BAB, NS 19/120, 4 January 1943.

8
. Ibid. 5 January 1943.

9
. BAB, NS 19/3402, message to Oberg, 5 January 1943.

10
. BAB, BDC, SS-O Oberg, 6 January 1943.

11
. BAB, NS 19/3401, message to Oberg, 11 January 1943.

12
. BAB, NS 19/3402, 18 January 1943.

13
. Meyer,
Besatzung
, 123 f.

14
. BAB, NS 19/120, telex to Müller, 13 February 1943, and to Kaltenbrunner, 17 February 1943.

15
.
Dienstkalender,
25–30 December 1942 (in particular references to 25 December); Heinen,
Legion
, 460 f. On the conditions of Sima’s internment see Heydrich’s report of 8 January 1941 (BAB, NS 19/2863).

16
. Kasten,
‘Franzosen’
, 213.

17
. PAA, state secretary France 15, Rudolf Schleier to Reich Foreign Minister about this meeting based on information that he had received from Laval, 6 April 1943; see Kasten,
‘Franzosen’
, 205 ff. According to Schleier the meeting took place on 3 April 1943 in Paris; see also BAB, NS 19/1444 (Appointments).

18
. Kasten,
‘Franzosen’
, 208.

19
. Ibid. 219 ff.

20
. BAB, NS 19/1504, Berger to Oberg, 8 February 1944.

21
. Ibid. Oberg to Himmler, 10 February 1944.

22
. Ibid. telex Meine to Oberg, 18 February 1944.

23
. BAB, NS 19/236, minute for RFSS on the meeting with SS-Obergruppenführer Berger, 11 April 1944.

24
.
Die Deutschen in der Tschechoslowakei
, no.407.

25
. Brandes,
Tschechen
, ii.22.

26
.
Die Deutschen in der Tschechoslowakei
, no. 414a, 7 September 1944; on 3 January 1944, at the request of Frank, Himmler extended this authority, which had initially only be granted to 31 December 1943 (Ibid. no. 414b and c); see Brandes,
Tschechen
, ii.23.

27
. Thomsen,
Besatzungspolitik
, 130.

28
. Ibid. 131 f., quotes in this context from the Danish national archive a message of 18 January 1943 from Himmler to Best.

29
. BAB NS19/3473 Himmler to Berger, 15 July 1943.

30
. Thomsen,
Besatzungspolitik
, 192; BAB, BDC, SS-O Best, message from Himmler of October 1943.

31
. Thomsen,
Besatzungspolitik
, 201 f.

32
.
SS en Nederland
, doc. no. 319, 6 February 1943, and doc. no. 320, Himmler’s reply of 6 February 1943. On the repressive policy in the Netherlands see also Christoph Spieker, ‘Enttäuschte Liebe. Funktionswandel der Ordnungspolizei in den Niederlanden’, in Johannes Houwink ten Cate und Alfons Kenkmann (eds),
Deutsche und holländische Polizei in den besetzten niederländischen Gebieten. Dokumentation einer Arbeitstagung
(Münster, 2002), 67–95.

33
. Telex, Himmler to Rauter, 10 February 1943 (
SS en Nederland
, doc. no. 328).

34
.
SS en Nederland
, doc. no. 331, Himmler to Rauter, 11 February 1943.

35
. Ibid. doc. no. 368, Himmler to Rauter, 31 March 1943.

36
. Ibid. doc. no. 387, Message to Rauter, 9 May 1943; see Kwiet,
Reichskommissariat
, 150.

37
.
SS en Nederland
, doc. no. 466, Himmler to Rauter, 24 September 1943.

38
. Ibid. doc. no. 467, 27 September 1943.

39
. Meershoek, ‘Machtentfaltung’, 400; Spieker, ‘Liebe’, 76.

40
. Thomsen,
Besatzungspolitik
, 200 ff.; Herbert,
Best
, 373 ff.

41
. Bohn,
Reichskommissariat
, 86.

42
. Warmbrunn,
German Occupation
, 146 f.

43
. IfZ, NO 2306, 10 November 1942.

44
. BAB, NS 19/2648, order of 11 January 1943.

45
. BAB, NS 19/2638, Krüger to Himmler, 16 February 1943.

46
. Ibid. Himmler statement, 12 March 1943.

47
. Madajczyk,
Okkupationspolitik
, 217.

48
. BAB, NS 19/1432, Himmler note of 22 June 1943 about the meeting.

49
. Ibid. various orders, 21 June 1943; see Gerlach,
Morde
, 952.

50
. BAB, NS 19/1432, Himmler note about the interview with Hitler, 3 April 1944.

51
. Madajczyk,
Okkupationspolitik
, 195 ff. and 191.

52
. Gerlach,
Morde
, 1010.

53
. BAB, NS 19/1432 (also IfZ, NO 2034), Himmler’s order of 10 July 1943; see Gerlach,
Morde
, 1023 f.

54
. Gerlach,
Morde
, 1010 ff.; for the areas concerned see p.1034.

55
. See ibid. 999 ff.

56
. Ibid. 999.

57
. BAB, NS 19/1681, 18 November 1942.

58
. BAB, NS 19/4010, 4 October 1943, also published as doc. PS-1919, in
IMT
, vol. 29, pp. 110 ff., quotation 117 f.

59
. Ibid. 122 f.

60
. Peter Black,
Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Vasall Himmlers. Eine SS-Karriere
(Paderborn, etc., 1991), 143 ff. and 195 ff.

61
. Thierack to Bormann, 16 November 1941, according to Herbert,
Fremdarbeiter
, 285; Broszat,
Polenpolitik
, 153.

62
. Edict of 30 June 1943, quoted in Broszat,
Polenpolitik
, 154; Herbert,
Fremdarbeiter
, 286; Wagner,
Volksgemeinschaft
, 341.