"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (192 page)

2.
See decision of July 20, 1940, by the Main Trustee Office East (HTO) (
Mitteilungsblatt HTO
1940, no. 5, 169;
Doc. Occ
. 5:195 ff.) on the employment of former Polish proprietors and managers. Under it they were forbidden delegation of fundamental authority and to share common living quarters with the German trustees. The trustees were required to keep Polish employees away from business and private correspondence as far as possible, since “the Polish intelligentsia and semiintelligentsia and the land-owning middle class particularly had been the vectors of the chauvinistic hatred of all Germans during the Polish period”; see also the circular of November 19, 1940, from the head of the Main Trustee Office East (
Mitteilungsblatt HTO
1941, no. 1, 73; reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:197), forbidding the employment of auditors of Polish nationality; letter of November 25, 1942, from the HSSPF of Posen and inspector of the SIPO and SD to the deputy Reich governor of Posen (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
).

3.
Letter of April 3, 1940, from the State Superior Court president, Danzig, to the
Landgerichtspräsidenten
and the invigilators of the
Amtsgerichte
(BA R 22/20993).

4.
Letter of November 25, 1940, from the State Superior Court president, Danzig, to the
Landgerichtspräsidenten
and the invigilators of the
Amtsgerichte
(BA R 22/20993).

5.
For example, see the letter of April 28, 1944, from the Reich governor of Posen to the head of the
Land
Labor Office, Posen (quoted by Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 169 f.).

6.
Report on a meeting of the labor trustees of the Eastern Territories held in Posen on October 9, 1941 (reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:274 ff.). Statements by SS-
Oberführer
Mehlhorn, head of Dept. 1 of the offices of the Reich governor of Posen.

7.
Regarding the allocation of labor and the conditions of work and pay for the Poles, see details in Seeber,
Zwangsarbeiter in der faschistischen Kriegswirtschaft
(1964); Madajczyk,
Polityka
, 2:7 ff., 34 ff. (with statistics); Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 284 ff., with numerous references; Rusi
ski,
Polo
enie robotników
(1949, 1955);
Doc. Occ
. 9:1975. See note 166 to part 1, section 1, V (“Professional and Labor Law”), regarding a more recent study on Polish labor and working conditions.

8.
See, for example, the letter of August 1943 (precise date not given) from the Reich governor of Wartheland, Referat I/50 to Referat I/40 (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
1174, Bl. 207), regarding drivers in the voluntary fire services in the Wartheland. Poles could be used as drivers when no Germans were available; situations in which they could give orders to Germans should, however, be avoided. Similar training for Germans and Poles was “impossible.” Letter of March 27, 1943, from the head of the Security Police and the
Sicherheitsdienst
to the Reich governor of Wartheland (Bl. 216) regarding Polish drivers, who should “not exercise any functions that in practice make them the superiors of German nationals.”

9.
Directives (1940) of the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF regarding training of young Poles for industry, in
Verfügungen
, 2:577.

10.
Report on a meeting of the labor trustees, reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:275 ff.

11.
Order of July 27, 1940, by the Reich governor of Posen, quoted in a letter of June 18, 1941, from the
Landrat
of Kempen to the Kempen Bürgermeister and the commissioners of the district (AZ KA VI, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, App. 11).

12.
Report of July 30, 1941, from Referat I/50 of the Reich governor of Posen to the Reich governor of Posen (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-145), which refers to emergency regulations of June 1, 1941, from the Reich trustee (no further detail given).

13.
Order of October 5, 1941, from the Reich minister of labor (
RArBl
. 1941, I, 448, preamble); also H. von Rosen—von Hoevel, “Das Polenstatut,”
DVerw
(1942): 109 ff.

14.
Order by the Reich minister of labor of October 5, 1941 (
RArBl
. 1941, I, 448, preamble), secs. 2–7, 9, 10, 14.

15.
Order of March 31, 1941, on vacations for civilian workers of Polish nationality (
RArBl
. 1941, I, 194) (sec. 2).

16.
Report of a meeting of the Reich labor trustees for the Eastern Territories on October 9, 1941, in Posen (
Doc. Occ
. 5:274 ff.).

17.
Report of October 9, 1941, ibid., 275 ff., 279; list of sanctions for poor work production in the notice
Streng aber gerecht
for Polish workers in German factories, who had to sign it when taking on work (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-873), and order by the inspector of the SIPO and SD, Danzing, on the punishment of violations of work discipline, communicated in the directives of December 9, 1941, by the State Police Directorate, Graudenz (Grudzi
dz) (State Archives Bromberg [Bydgoszcz], Akten Gestapo Graudenz, reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:265 ff.).

18.
See the various statements contained in the report of October 9, 1941 (
Doc. Occ
. 5:275 f., 278 f.), by the representative of Pomerania (very positive), Upper and Lower Silesia (Poles preferred among all workers), the Gnesen (Gniezno) labor office (70% were “modest and hardworking”), and the Samter labor office (90% “willing to work”).

19.
Report of October 9, 1941 (
Doc. Occ
. 5:279): “A way out of the dilemma is apparently being discussed in private … the struggle between the German and the Polish nations is a matter of very existence.”

20.
Report of July 30, 1941, by the
Referent
for nationhood questions of the Reich governor of Posen to the Reich governor of Posen (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-145). Probably as a result of this suggestion, an order was drafted, the contents of which are still not known (quoted in the report of October 9, 1941,
Doc. Occ
. 5:275).