"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (186 page)

15.
Cf. the activity reports of July 8, 1941, by the district president of Hohensalza (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
856, Bl. 9) and October 8, 1941 (“It is recommended that the church problem continue to be watched closely in the future”) (Posen University Library).

16.
Commissar of Wollstein (Wolsztyn) to the
Landrat
there, July 3, 1941 (Diary no. Verw/He; Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-727).

17.
With regard to cultural life in the Annexed Eastern Territories in general, see the decree of July 16, 1940, issued by the Reich Ministry for Science, Education, and Culture (Az. E II a no. 889, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-2); Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 311 ff.; Nawrocki,
Hitlerowska okupacja
(1966), pt. 3, p. 5, Buchst. I-n; regarding the appropriation of Polish cultural property, quoted in the Main Trustee Office East note dated June 21, 1940 (Nuremberg doc. NO-5112), according to which the decree had to date been implemented only in part. See also the letter of August 5, 1940, from the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) to the
Reichsführer
-SS regarding art treasures in Lettow-Vorbeck Castle (Nuremberg doc. PS-2535). See also the
Bulletin of the Main Commission Warsaw
4 (1952): 175 ff.

18.
Law on Editors of October 4, 1933 (
RGBl.
I 713). Law of September 22, 1933 (
RGBl.
I 661).

19.
Hitler at the working supper of June 30, 1942, quoted in Picker,
Hitlers Tischgespräche
, 201.

20.
With regard to the situation in the education sector, see a report published by the Inter-Allied Information Committee, London (Nuremberg doc. L-36).

21.
The University of Posen was later reopened for German students and called the Reich University of Posen. Regarding conditions there, see “Z pami
tka profesora,” Reich University of Posen,
Przegl
d Zachodni
, vol. 11, 275 ff.; and K. M. Pospieszalski, K. Tymieniecki, and Z. Wojciechowski, “Uniwersytet Pozna
skina na pocz
tku Hitlerowskiej okupacji,”
Przegl
d Zachodni
, vols. 7–8 (1955). See, for example, the report by the Office of the Chief of the Counsel for War Crimes, “The Germanization of Poland,” Nuremberg doc. D-956, where it is stated that on December 13, 1939, the Reich governor of Wartheland ordered the registration of all public and private libraries and collections, which were then seized, brought to a central place, and sorted. The volumes were sent either to Berlin or to the newly created State Library of Posen. Books of no interest to either were sold or destroyed (p. 11). See also the letter of April 5, 1941, from a local branch of the Emigration Center, Posen, to the Emigration Center (pp. 28 f.), which contained a list of the libraries confiscated. “In the Hohensalza district the libraries have been collected either by the Gestapo or by the local SD office, or, as in other districts, burned” (Hauptkommission Warschau, archive no. 1058, typed original). For more details see Łuczak,
Grabie
mienia polskiego
(1969), 28 f.

22.
Note dated November 23, 1943, from the district president of Kattowitz, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-38.

23.
Quoted in
Doc. Occ
. 5:312 n. 50.

24.
K. M. Pospieszalski in ibid.

25.
Note dated November 23, 1943, from the district president of Kattowitz (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-38).