Berlin, 14 May 1935
To the Reich and Prussian Minister of the Interior,
Berlin
Subject: Mistreatment of Communist prisoners by policemen
Enclosure: 1 loose sheet
My Dear Reich Minister!
Enclosed you will find copy of a report of the inspector of the Secret State Police, dated 28 March 1935.[188]
This report gives me an occasion to state my fundamental attitude toward the question of the beating of internees. The numerous instances of ill-treatment which have come to the knowledge of the administration of justice can be divided into three different causes for such ill-treatment of prisoners.
1. Beating as a disciplinary punishment [Hausstrafe] in concentration camps.
2. Ill-treatment, mostly of political internees, in order to make them talk.