Even if the transportation to the camps is generally taken care of by the Wehrmacht, the population will still attribute this situation to the SS.
In order to prevent, if possible, similar occurrences in the future, I therefore order that, effective from today on, Soviet Russians, declared definitely suspect and obviously marked by death (for example with typhus) and who therefore would not be able to withstand the exertions of even a short march on foot, shall in the future, as a matter of basic principle, be excluded from the transport into the concentration camps for execution.
I request that the leaders of the Einsatzkommandos be correspondingly informed of this decision without delay.
Distribution:
All offices of the State Police
To the CO of the SIPO and the SD Metz
To the CO of the SIPO and the SD Strassburg
For the information of:
The Reichsfuehrer SS and the Chief of the German police
The Chief of the SIPO and the SD
The Chiefs of Departments I to VII
Gruppenleiter IVD SS Lt Col Dr Weinmann
The higher SS and Police Chiefs—except in the Hague
The Inspectors of the SIPO and the SD
The Commanders in Chief of the SIPO and the SD—except
in Metz and Strassburg
The Commanders of the SIPO and the SD
The Inspectors of the concentration camps
All commandants of the concentration camps
For:
signed: MUELLER
Certified:
signed: L. WOLFERT
Office Girl
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT 1166-PS
TOP SECRET
Oranienburg, 15 August 1944
SS—Economic—Administration Department
Section D—Concentration Camps—
DIV—189—8.44—Ru./Schm.
Diary No. 199/44 Secret
Subject: Report of the number of prisoners and Survey of prisoners clothing type "G" and "Z" and the supply of "G" available.
Reference: Telephone call by SS-Sturmbannfuehrer Waschkau on 15.8.44.
To: Chief of Section B, SS-Gruppenfuehrer and Lieutenant-General of the Waffen-SS Loerner
Berlin—Lichterfelde/West Unter den Eichen 126-135