To:
- a. The Gestapo Office in Berlin,
- for forwarding to all Regional State Police
- Offices and
- State Police Offices
- b. for information of:
- State Governments in Prussia:
- to the Regierungspraesidenten
Concerning: The forwarding of Gestapo affairs to the office of the public prosecutor.
It is the Gestapo’s task, to investigate and to combat all seditious movements, and to collect and evaluate evidence of such investigation. These tasks can only be accomplished by the State police offices, if all political police-affairs dealt with by the local and district police authorities within their district are submitted to them promptly. As auxiliary organs of the Gestapo, it is the duty of the local and district police authorities to do so.
Thus, all matters in the affairs of the Gestapo are on principle to be submitted to the office of the public prosecutor via the competent State police office. In urgent matters of arrest, records may be submitted directly to the office of the public prosecutor after notifying the State police office previously by telephone. In such a case, a copy of the interrogation record is to be forwarded at once to the State police office.
The Reich Minister of Justice will instruct the office of the public prosecutor to direct the requests for investigations of reports of political nature, received directly by him, to local and district police authorities via the competent State police office.
It is the responsibility of the State police offices to speedily evaluate the proceedings channeled through their offices and to forward them without delay.
By order:
[typed] signed: Dr. Best
[Stamp] The Reich Leader SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior