Heydrich Police Decree - Border Crossings in the West

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HEYDRICH NAZI POLICE DIRECTIVE RE: GERMAN BORDERS

1941 NAZI SCHNELLBRIEF
POLICE DIRECTIVE FROM
HEYDRICH REGARDING
CHANGES IN DOCUMENTS
NEEDED FOR BORDER
CROSSINGS IN THE WEST

This rare and historic URGENT DIRECTIVE dated 8 August 1941 originated at Obergruppenführer-SS Reinhard Heydrich’s office in Berlin and was sent to the Reichsstatthalter (the highest Nazi government authority) in Wien, Baldur von Schirach. A blue stamp on page 1 indicates this SS Directive arrived at the Reichsstatthalter’s office at Ballhausplatz 2 on 11 August 1941. The subject of the Schnellbrief is the “Closing of Police Borders in the West”.

SS and Police General Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the Sicherheitsdienst

It states that on grounds of paragraph 1 of the Travel Limitations Between Certain Areas of the Greater German Reich and Poland dated 15 August 1941, there will no longer be police borders in the West (special police permission is no longer needed for travel in the West) . Elsaß, Luxembourg and Lotharingen (Lorraine) are exempted from this rule and are still considered durchlaßscheinpflichtige Gebiete.

Heydrich’s office in Police Headquarters in Berlin requested that the information in this Schnellbrief be passed on immediately to local police personnel.

At the bottom of the Schnellbrief is a black rubber stamp with an eagle and swastika in the middle, showing this letter originated at Der Reichsführer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern (Heinrich Himmler, Head of the Nazi Police) on Prinz Albrechtstraße in Berlin.

Der Reichsführer-SS und Chef der deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern

This A4 size (8-1/4 x 11-5/8 inch) Schnellbrief from Heydrich was signed on his behalf by an aide. The Heydrich signature is not a pen and ink signature, but a rubber stamp. A typed entry at the bottom shows that the Reichsstatthalter’s office sent a copy of this Urgent Directive to the president of Police in Wien on 13 August 1941.

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