Major Karl August Meinel was shifted into the Führerreserve on 1 August 1942 because on 13 January 1942 he had written a critical report to General Hermann Reinecke on the segregation and execution of Soviet prisoners-of-war (German: russische Kriegsgefangene) in prison camp Stalag VII-A by the Gestapo and the Sicherheitsdienst SD (security service) of the Reichsführer SS (Heinrich Himmler).[1] Stalag VII-A was north of Moosburg, a Bavarian town close to Munich.