(a) The Municipal Police of the Reich with several special units, such
as traffic squads, accident squads, information, cavalry, police dog
squads, radio, and medical units; (b) the Gendarmerie with innumerable
stations and posts, distributed all over the country, even in the
smallest villages, which had rendered service without essential changes
since Napoleon’s time—the motorized Gendarmerie supervised traffic; (c)
the Municipal Police of smaller communities; (d) the Water Police; (e)
the Fire Police; (f) the Technical Auxiliary Police Units, the Technical
Emergency Service. . .
THE PRESIDENT: Dr. Babel, you are going rather fast if you want us to
take down these categories.
HERR BABEL: Mr. President, I shall submit a copy to the Tribunal.
THE PRESIDENT: Personally, I prefer to understand the argument when I
hear it.
HERR BABEL: I repeat: (f) the Technical Emergency Service, the
Compulsory, Industrial, and Voluntary Fire Brigades; (g) Police and
Gendarmerie Reserves; (h) the Air Raid Police, with security and
auxiliary service; (i) the Town and Country Guard.
Further, there belonged to the Regular Police a great many central
institutions, such as the State Hospital for Police, the Police
Officers’ Schools, the Technical Police School, the Police Sports and
Cavalry Schools, Police and Gendarmerie Schools, the Water Police School
and the Reich Fire Brigade School, the Driving and Traffic Schools, the
Air Raid Precautions Teaching Staff, the School and Experimental Station
for Police Dogs, and the Horse Depot of the Police.
In 1942 all the above-named units of the Regular Police, including the
police troop units, totaled about 570,000 men. If we follow the
presentation of the Prosecution, then all the groups, institutions, and
organizations enumerated so far belong to the SS.
11. All those units of the Security Police which did not belong to the
separately indicted Gestapo and SD, that is, offices and officials of
the Criminal Police.