Sicherheitsdienst

The Sicherheitsdienst , literally the “service of safety”, was the Intelligence service NSDAP, the Nazi party.

SD was created as of 1931 by Reinhard Heydrich, under name service Ic. Officially called SD in July 1932, its capacity increased with that of the Nazis on the Germany. It was in competition with the SA which it helped to eliminate at the time of the Nuit of the Long Knives, and in constant competition with the Abwehr , service of military against-espionage of the Admiral Wilhelm Canaris.

In 1936, it is integrated into RSHA, always under the commands of Heydrich, at the sides of the SIPO, which gathers the Gestapo, directed by Müller and Kriminalpolizei (KRIPO), with at its head Nebe. From this moment, it does not have any more but two departments, of '' Amt III, SS-Inland '', which is occupied, in the broad sense term of against-espionage and collection of information inside Reich, under the direction of Ohlendorf and whose service netral counted 500 to 600 men, and of '' Amt VI, SS-Ausland '', service of reseignements, directed abroad by Schellenberg, with 300 to 500 agents.

In its turn, Amt VI entered a logic of conflict permanent, this time with Gestapo which maintained and developed its own network of advisers, and which held moreover, contrary at the SD, the capacity to intern any opponent or supposed tel.

Having the task to detect the real and potential enemies Party, it set up hundreds of agents and thousands of advisers. After the attack against Hitler in July 1944 its capacity quasi absolute of terror (of State) having of the accounts only with Himmler and Hitler was still reinforced with the takeover of the Abwehr .

Organization

The SD was organized in four departments:

Section has with the legal order and the structure of Reich subdivided in:

has 1 Question general of work in the spheres of the life in Germany.
has 2 Laws.
has 3 Constitution and administration.
has 4 in general National life.
has 5 general Questions of payment of police force and all questions of applications of the legislation.

Section B treated nationality and ethnicity:

B 1 Nationality.
B 2 Minorities.
B 3 Ethnicité and health.
B 4 Citizenship and naturalization.
B 5 Occupied territories.

Section C treated culture:

C 2 Religious education.
C 3 Culture, folklore and Article
C 4 Presses, literature, radio, evaluation and censures.

Section D with the economy:

D with the press
D B colonies
D S special questions
D W areas occupied in the west
D O areas occupied in the east
D 1 food
D 2 trades, craft industry and transport
D 3 finances, currency, banks, insurances and exchanges
D 4 industry and energy
D 5 social questions and trade-union

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