The Reich Leader SS and Chief of the German Police in the Reich
Ministry of the Interior
S II A 4 No. 12/41 = 558 = secret
Berlin, 13 December 1941
SECRET
To the Chief Reich Prosecutor of the People’s Court
To Chief Reich Prosecutor Dr. Barnickel—or deputy in the office in Berlin.
Subject: Preliminary proceedings against the employee Edith, Margarete Haupt, born in Poznan on 7 May 1918, on a charge of treason
[Illegible Marginal Notes]
The systematic shadowing of ethnic Germans also served to obtain reasons for persecution measures and chicaneries in the course of the battle for suppression and extermination. The Poles carried out these measures against the ethnic Germans in a manner which the Germans considered to be absolutely arbitrary, contrary to international law, and brutal (cf. for instance, Freisler, “Development of the nationality law of ethnic German groups,” in German Justice, 1941, pp. 881 ff.).