"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (195 page)

23.
For further details, see Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 114 ff., with numerous references.

24.
See no. 2 of the Reich minister of the interior’s administrative decree of March 13, 1941 (quoted in
Doc. Occ
. 5:122 ff.: “No German blood may be lost or be put to use by foreign nations”).

25.
More details in Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 114 ff.

26.
Administrative Decree on the Scrutiny and Segregation of the Population in the Annexed Eastern Territories (BA R 43 II/137; also reproduced in Lichter,
Das Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
(1943), 116 ff.; and
Doc. Occ
. 5:114 ff.).

27.
As stated in the Reich Ministry of the Interior circular of October 31, 1940 (Secret State Archives, Berlin-Dahlem, StS Pfundtner, Rep. 320/127, part of BA R 18).

28.
More details in Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 115 ff.

29.
In its memorandum of November 25, 1939, on the treatment of the population of the former Polish territories according to politico-racial standpoints (Nuremberg doc. NO-3732; also reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:1 ff.), the Race Policy Office had proposed that the procedure of the German Ethnic Classification List employed in the Warthegau should be used in the Annexed Eastern Territories generally.

30.
RGBl
. 1941 I, 118; 1942 I, 51; also reproduced in Lichter,
Das Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
, 116 ff.; and
Doc. Occ
. 5:119 ff.; full details in Berger, “Die Deutsche Volksliste in den eingegliederten Ostgebieten” (1941).

31.
Von Rosen—von Hoevel, “Das Polenstatut” (1942), 109 ff.: “In the spirit of the early Germanic era, National Socialism has made a clear analysis of the blood-determined differences between peoples and individuals. It is thus not a matter of equality among men, as the liberals would have it, but indeed of inequality, based on their natural racial, mental, and physical characteristics. Accordingly, they must have different rights and obligations depending on their value for the future existence of the people.” (The author was
Regierungsrat
in the Reich Ministry of the Interior).

32.
Decree of March 4, 1941 (
RGBl
. I 1941, 118; 1942, 51), sec. 3.

33.
Ibid., secs. 5 and 6, in conjunction with the implementing decree of March 13, 1941, issued by the Reich Ministry of the Interior, no. 2, pars. 6 and 7 (BA R 18/3746, reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:122 ff.).

34.
Decree of March 4, 1941 (
RGBl
. I 1941, 118; 1942, 51), sec. 4, par. 2, and sec. 7, par. 2, and explicitly once again the Twelfth Decree of April 25 1943, to the Reich Citizenship Law (
RGBl
. I 268), sec. 4, according to which Jews and Gypsies could neither
become
nationals of the state nor
be
citizens unless the decree was countermanded. In this respect Huber errs in
Idee und Ordung des Reiches
, 21 f., when he claims that Jews resident in the Annexed Eastern Territories were protected citizens of the Reich.

35.
BA R 18/3746.

36.
Decree of September 12, 1940, by the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF (BA R 43 II/137), according to which the population of the Annexed Eastern Territories should in the future be composed of Germans with or without the right to Reich citizenship, “valuable alien renegades,” and “foreign nationals.”

37.
Administrative decree of October 30, 1940, by the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF, ZS Posen, film 2, Bl. 502.

38.
Administrative decree of May 6, 1940, by the Reich Ministry of the Interior to the Reich protector in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Reich governor in Danzig and Posen, the
Oberpräsidenten
in Königsberg and Breslau (Wrocław), the district presidents in the Annexed Eastern Territories, and the Supreme Authorities of the Reich (BA R 43 II/1359).

39.
See, for example, the implementing provisions of May 21, 1941, to the Decree on the German Ethnic Classification List issued by the Reich governor of Danzig–West Prussia (BA R 22/20994).

40.
Reich Ministry of the Interior circulars of March 13, 1941 (BA R 18/3746), and of July 28, 1943 (
Doc. Occ
. 5:148 ff.). Reich Ministry of the Interior instruction of March 15, 1944 (ibid.).

41.
Instruction no. 66 I of February 10, 1942, issued by the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF (BA R 18/468), according to which Germans were to have made their application by March 31, 1942, at the latest; the Decision Committee for the German population was composed of the Bürgermeister and the local section heads of the municipality in which the applicant was resident, a delegate of the Security Police and the SD, and two “reliable ethnic Germans” (BA R 18/468).

42.
Decree of January 1, 1942, by the Reich governor of Posen to all subordinate offices, setting out a broad equivalence of these persons with Germans (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-166). Letter of August 7, 1941, from the RFSS to the RSHA on how to deal with Poles living in the Reich and qualifying for naturalization (ZS, Versch. 29/242 f.); general instruction of February 9, 1942, by the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF, no. 12/C, BA R 2220994, also reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:150 ff.; circular of February 16, 1942, from the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF (ZS, Versch. 29/236 ff.), communicated to the Wartheland authorities by the Reich governor of Posen with covering letter of May 26, 1942 (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
); regarding the position of persons subject to military service registered under the DVL (German Ethnic Classification List), group 3, see OKW decree of October 2, 1942 (Az: 1 K 2036 AWA, BWSiwd./AWA AHA/Ag./E/[Ia] no. 3358/42, reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:161 ff.).

43.
Circular of October 31, 1941, from the RFSS/RKF, announced in the circular of May 30, 1942 (BA R 18/466, also reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:150). The Reich governor of Posen, Greiser, resisted the interference of the Supreme Examining Court—as that of all central authorities—in cases concerning the people’s register that might undermine the autonomy of his administration; cf. letter to the RFSS/RKF of April 2, 1943 (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
).

44.
Reich Ministry of the Interior decree of March 13, 1941, sec. 2, par. 2c (
Doc. Occ
. 5:124); instruction of the SS/RKF no. 50/I of September 30, 1941 (reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:144). The investigation was carried out by the Race and Settlement Office of the
Reichsführer
-SS. The authority for the instruction was vested—an indication of the broad powers claimed by the RKF—not in a Reich Ministry of the Interior circular but in the secret decree of October 7, 1939, issued by Hitler, who had given Himmler full powers in all nationhood questions (ZS, Versch. 26, Bl. 112 ff.).

45.
Letter of November 11, 1941, from the representative of the Reich governor in the Wartheland (A. Jäger) to the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF: “The association between the German Ethnic Classification List as a racial-political measure and racial investigation … is in contradiction to fundamental nationhood policy … The investigations undertaken so far have only been able to prove descent in a superficial manner. People who are indicated as being of German descent by this procedure cannot be forced into becoming Polish without considerable anxiety being caused among the general population as a result of this racist investigation procedure” (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-236, K. 4).

46.
More details in Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 120 ff.

47.
Reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:122 ff.

48.
Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-53; also reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:114 ff.

49.
The decree of March 29, 1939, from the Reich Ministry of the Interior to the district president (Nuremberg doc. NG-295), defined “of German descent” as meaning “descending from ancestors of German origin,” without specifying who was “of German origin.” See also the letter of June 19, 1942, from the district president of Łód
to the Reich governor of Wartheland (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
1174, Bl 37) and that of November 16, 1942, from the head of the SD-
Leitabschnitt
, Posen, to the Reich governor of Wartheland (Bl. 100).