Keitel gave orders that the murdered officers were to be cremated and their ashes returned to the POW camp as a deterrent to further escapes.[1]:56–57 Himmler set up the logistics for actually killing the men, and passed it down through his subordinates in the Gestapo.[2] The general orders were that recaptured officers would be turned over to the Criminal Police, and fifty would be handed to the Gestapo to be killed.[1]:57