"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (174 page)

8.
Reports of August 18, September 18, November 21, 1940; March 18, May 25, 1941, from the district president of Hohensalza (Posen University Library); reports of November 27, 1943; September 20, November 30, December 18, 1944, from the SD, Posen, containing numerous details; report of April 10, 1943, from the SD, Danzig. See also the letter of March 10, 1943, from the NSDAP, Alt-Bergund, to a German woman in Wappin, reproaching her for having friendly relations with Poles; a complaint (undated) “on the friendly relations” of members of the Wehrmacht with Poles; letter of April 2, 1941, from the
Landrat
of Kosten (Ko
cian) to the headquarters of the Gestapo, Posen, on relations of members of the Wehrmacht with Poles (all Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
); see the complaints in
Meldungen aus dem Reich
of July 4, 1940, that members of the Wehrmacht went to Polish restaurants with Polish women (BA R 58/152). Also the report from the Gendarmerie chief of the Grätz district for the period April 1 to March 24, 1942 (State Archive Pozna
,
Landratsamt
Grätz 36, Bl. 55).

9.
Report of July 30, 1941, from district president, Hohensalza: “Anybody who associates with Poles goes to the concentration camp.” Report of November 21, 1940, from district president, Hohensalza (Posen University Library).

10.
See, for example, report no. 270 of September 31, 1940, by the Security Police, Rawitsch (Rawicz) (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
).

11.
Transcript of a discussion with the commander of the Security Police, Posen, on September 29, 1941 (State Archive Pozna
).

12.
Note from the
Gau
Bureau of Nationhood Affairs of the NSDAP, Posen, of April 23, 1943, regarding statments by a Reich railway official, with a letter of April 30, 1943, sent to the SD-
Mittelabschnitt
, Posen, “for further consideration”; the Poles, who included a large number of the intelligentsia (professors, etc.), were said to be operating in a very sophisticated manner, apparently directed from a central headquarters (see also the report of July 30, 1941) (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-214).

13.
Report of July 30, 1941, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-145.

Part One. Section 2. A. The Principal Features of the National Socialist Policy of Special Law

1.
It is not possible to go into greater detail here about the privileges accorded German citizens and German nationals in the Annexed Eastern Territories. They occurred above all in the business and tax domains, so as to compensate German residents for the disadvantages that had accrued during the Polish period, to facilitate new settlement by Germans, and to stimulate economic investment from the Altreich. Cf. the Decree on Damage to the Nationhood of February 7, 1941 (
RGBl.
I 85). As in all the Annexed Eastern Territories (Austria, Sudetengau, Memel, Danzig [Gda
sk]), the Reich tax legislation (and Prussian fiscal law), including the emergency tax laws applying to Poles, Gypsies, and Jews (Decree on Social Compensatory Taxes of August 5, 1940,
RGBl.
I, 1077, with its first, second, and third implementing orders,
RGBl.
1940 I 1666, 1942 I 149), was also promulgated in the Eastern Territories (decrees of November 18, 1939,
RGBl.
I, 2258; January 7, 1940,
RGBl.
I, 149; January 10, 1940,
RGBl.
I, 211; February 24, 1940,
RGBl.
I, 418; September 24, 1940,
RGBl.
I, 1288; December 8, 1940,
RGBl.
I, 1587) but with considerable fiscal advantages in favor of “Germanness”; see the list of regulations in Kluge and Krüger,
Verfassung und Verwaltung
(1941), 126 ff.; the most significant was the Decree on Tax Remissions in Favor of the Annexed Eastern Territories (Eastern Aid Decree) of December 9, 1940 (
RGBl.
I 1565;
RStBl.
1013), which accorded considerable preferential conditions to German nationals but not to naturalized Poles (cf. the so-called Poland Administrative Decree of May 8, 1941, by Reich Minister of Finance Schulz and Brachmann,
Oststeuerhilfe
[1941], 67 f.); full details in ibid., 131 ff., with further references and implementation orders from the Reich minister of finance (42 ff.).

2.
Police decree of April 15, 1941 (
ABl. des Regierungspräsidenten Kattowitz
[1941]: 77 f.; Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, Library, Sign. C III/266).

3.
Instruction of November 1, 1941, Reich governor of Wartheland, on first names permitted for Polish children (Az. I/52–141–1–13; Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc I-842; quoted in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
[1966], 365 ff.); see also the letter of May 1941 from the Reich governor of Posen (Pozna
) to the Reich minister of the interior (362 ff.), in which Greiser proposes some of the measures that he later implemented. Thus Poles were not allowed to bear German first names or surnames, and vice versa.