Gestapo on Trial by Carruthers Bob;

Author:Carruthers, Bob;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War II: HIS027100
ISBN: 1925214
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2014-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

The interior of the Gestapo Headquarters in Prinz-Albrecht-Str, Berlin, 1934.

A. The Domestic Intelligence Service was an institution of the Party, but it did not belong to the organisation of the political leadership. Therefore, no organisational connection existed. The proper and final task of the Domestic Intelligence Service was not given to it by the Party either. The task assigned it by the Party, as I have already mentioned, had already been essentially completed in the years 1938-39.

Q. Did the SD have the task of maintaining the Nazi leaders in power?

A. The Security Service had the task of -

Q. Can you first answer the question yes or no?

A. No.

Q. Now please give me your reasons.

A. The Security Service had a different task. It had the assignment to observe the effects of the measures taken by the leaders of the State, Party, economy and of autonomous bodies, to determine what the people were saying about them, whether the results were positive or negative, and then to inform the leaders about what it had found out.

Q. Was the Domestic Intelligence Service the espionage system of the NSDAP? Here I refer to the trial brief against the SS, Pages 8a and 8b of the English edition.

A. No. Firstly, the Security Service was not an espionage service at all. Secondly, it sent its reports to all executive offices, not only to those of the Party, but also to the executive offices of the State.

Q. Now I come to the next topic of evidence, the relation between the SD and the Gestapo. Were the Gestapo and the SD a uniform police system which became constantly more closely connected?

I refer to the trial brief against the Gestapo and SD, Page 12, Pages 1, 4, 13, 18, 21 of the English edition. What was the connection between the Gestapo and SD organisations with respect to aims, tasks, activities and methods?

A. First, in answer to the first question: it was not a question of a uniform police system, since a Security Service and a police system have absolutely nothing to do with each other. The Security Service and the Secret State Police were two entirely different organisations. While the Security Service had developed from a semi-military formation (Gliederung) of the Party, the Secret State Police was a continuation of an already existing institution of the State.

While the Security Service saw its aim and its task in gaining a general view of the various spheres of life or the specific forms of activity of other ideological groups, and regarded the individual cases as a system and an example, it was the task of the Secret State Police, on the basis of existing laws, ordinances, decrees, and so on, to deal with that individual case itself and to take preventive or subsequent measures in an executive police capacity, the continuation of an already existing state institution. While the Secret State Police worked with executive means, such as interrogations, confiscations, and so on, the Security Service never had executive powers.

Q. Was it

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