Generalne Gubernatorstwo w raportach Służby Bezpieczeństwa Reichsführera SS
The General Government in the Reports of the Security Service of the Reichsführer SS

Summary/Abstract: The Security Service of the Reichsführer SS (SD) was an intelligence organisation of the SS and Nazi Party in the Third Reich. After the NSDAP came to power in Germany in 1933, the influence of the SD increased and it took control of all the most important positions in the security apparatus of the Third Reich. From 1939, the SD became part of the Reich Main Security Office (Reichssicherheitshauptamt; RSHA). It also reported to operational groups of the Security Police and the SD, which operated in Poland after the German invasion (1 September 1939). During the occupation (including in the General Government), the SD supported the Gestapo. The SD was responsible for collecting information to examine the attitudes of citizens of the Third Reich and the occupied territories about current political events and the course of the war. Opinions of society about the General Government (Poles, Jews, Ukrainians and Germans) were not only a test of the current attitude of the population towards the Third Reich authorities, but also made it possible to assess the effectiveness of official propaganda.

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