h. SS central administrative office of economy, office group D—Concentration Camp—in Oraninburg (with 30 copies for the camps)
i. Referate II C3
Subject: Increased shipments to concentration camps.
Reference: My decrees of 17 Dec 1942—IV 656/42 g and of 23 March 1943—IV C 2, Gen No 656/42 g
The regulations for exceptions contained in the above mentioned decrees, which achieved their intended goal, are hereby revoked immediately.
The given directives have not been observed everywhere during the execution of those shipments to concentration camps. Subjects of allied, friendly or neutral states, as well as minors, have, for instance in several cases, been committed to concentration camps in spite of the strictest orders to the contrary. Their re-transfer will lead to difficulties and cause an unnecessary, supplemental effort.
In order to prevent justified complaints, especially of a diplomatic nature, I request to check the shipments which have been carried out immediately. Commitments contrary to the regulations must immediately be reported, since the cases have already been classified according to the general rules of protective custody, in every single case, and the release or other dispositions of such prisoners effectuated as quickly as possible.
This decree does not concern district and local police authorities.
By direction
signed: MUELLER
Stamp: Reichsfuehrer SS and
Chief of the German Police.
The Reichs Ministry of the
Interior
[Pencil note:] Duesseldorf
Certified:
signed: BLEECK [?]
Employee of the Chancellery