Order identifying the SS Security Service as the "sole political news and defense service of the NSDAP"

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NSDAP Party Chancellery

Date: 14 December 1938

Literal Title: Page 231 of Verfuegungen, Anordnungen Bekanntgaben . . . Order No. 201/38 . . . Subject: Position of the Security Service (Licherheitsdienst [sic] of the Reichsfuehrer SS (SD) within the Party.

Defendant: Rudolf Hess

Total Pages: 1

Language of Text: English

Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)

Evidence Code: PS-3385

Citation: IMT (page 4084)

HLSL Item No.: 453737

Notes:The person who issued the order is not identified in the document. The order cites an earlier order of 9 June 1934.

Trial Issues

Criminal organizations (Gestapo, Leadership Corps, Cabinet, SS, SA, SD, OK… Nazi regime (rise, consolidation, economic control, and militarization) (I…

Document Summary

Red Series Doc Descriptions

PS-3385: Official party decree, 14 December 1938: the duties of the Sd and its position within and in relation to the national socialist party

Blue Series Subject Index

PS-3385: SS -- National Socialist Party’s elite organization -- Separation from / SD -- Information Service of the NSDAP / SS -- units -- Separation from the Party -- Defense plea / SD -- Espionage / RSHA -- SD, separation from the Party, 14 Dec. 1938

DECREES, REGULATIONS, ANNOUNCEMENTS [Verlegungen, Anordnungen Bekanntgaben] Part I of 1943,
IV Volume
Edited by the Party-Chancellery Published by: Central Publishing House of the NSDAP, Franz Eher, Successor, '
Munich, Page 231.
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Order No. 201/38 (Not to be published )
14 December 1938
Subject: Position of the Security Service [Sicherheitsdienst] of the Reicbsfuehrer SS (SD) within the Party.
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By my order of 9 June 1934, the Security Service of the Reichs-fuehrer SS has been established as the sole political news and defense service of the NSDAP, its components and joint associations.
The SD-RF SS is also an establishment of the Party. The SS as a component of the Party is to keep up and carry on this establishment [Traeger dieser Einrichtung] as to its organization and personnel.