TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-1451
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 21

HIMMLER'S ORDER, 20 APRIL 1939, ESTABLISHING THE "MAIN OFFICE ADMINISTRATION AND ECONOMY" * ALSO KNOWN AS "ADMINISTRATIVE AND ECONOMIC MAIN OFFICE"

Copy

Distributor 4a

Berlin, 4/20/1939

The Reich Leader SS and Chief of the German Police

Subject: Establishment of a New Main Office.

1. With effect from 3 April 1939 the Office of the Administrative Chief of the SS will be raised to the status of Main Office in the Reich Leadership.

2. The new Main Office will be called: "Main Office Administration and Economy" abbreviated: "V and W Main Office".

3. The Administrative and Economic Main Office is a main office like the other Main Offices of the Reich Leadership SS (SS Main Office, SD Main Office, Race and Settlement Main Office, Constabulary Police [Ordnungspolizei] Main Office, and Security Police Main Office).

4. The chief of the Administrative and Economic Main Office in the Reich Leadership SS will at the same time be chief of the Main Office Budget and Buildings of the Reich Leader SS and chief of the German Police in the Reich Ministry of the Interior (Ministerialdirektor). His activities as such will be dependent on the organization of the work of the office. The tasks of the SD connected with politics and intelligence service will not be affected (Administration and Economy).

The Reich Leader SS

[Signed] H. HIMMLER

Certified true copy:

BY ORDER OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CHIEF OF THE SS

[Signature illegible]

SS Obersturmfuehrer and Adjutant

[Stamp] SS Race and Settlement Main Office

No...........19 April 1939

* See testimony of defendant Pohl, pp. 319 to 334, concerning period prior to this reorganization of the office of the administrative chief of the SS. Back