"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (208 page)

15.
Report of May 21, 1941 (p. 30), by the district president of Hohensalza, demanding adequate supplies for working Poles, especially bread, in the interests of production (University Library of Posen).

16.
Report of 30 July 1941; Polish children were said to be treated too well, since those under six years received 1,000 g of white bread or 750 g of wheat flour every four weeks. Report of March 18, 1941 (p. 4), by the district president of Hohensalza, which, responding to a report by the Oberbürgermeister of Leslau states, “The milk supply regulation brought with it an undesirable and intolerable boost to their [the Poles’] confidence. The fact that Polish children receive half a liter of milk up to the age of six years, while Germans [adults—Author] receive only skim milk, brings about a situation in which German housewives are supplied with skim milk while the Poles next to them get large jugs of whole milk, all the while laughing up their sleeves. In my opinion this regulation should be revised posthaste on political grounds” (both reports in Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-145).

17.
Report of February 18, 1941, by the district president of Hohensalza, p. 7 (University Library of Posen). This report concerns the sale of wheat to Poles. For the sale of cakes and other such items, see the decree in
Verordnungsblatt R-sta Wartheland
no. 40, November 26, 1941, 583 (reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 227 f.); this decree is very probably the result of the objection contained in the report of July 30, 1941, mentioned above, and a complaint by the district president of Posen of October 8, 1941 (State Archive Pozna
, R-sta, 835, 132), that “instead of buying white bread for their children, the Poles use these markets to obtain cakes and tarts. Given the limited supply of these goods, Germans often go without.”

18.
Instruction by the
Land
Food Office of the R-sta Wartheland Posen of August 9, 1941 (reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 276 f.), and of March 16, 1942 (278 f.). Notification of November 8, 1940, by the Oberbürgermeister of Posen (Dr. Gerhard Scheffler) (Main Commission Warsaw, Plakatsammlung XIV, 103t/3c; photocopy): “As of this time fruit will be given only to German children and adolescents up to 18 years.”

19.
Instruction of March 16, 1942, by the
Land
Food Office, Posen; reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 278 f.

20.
Instruction of May 1, 1942, by the
Landrat
of Kempen (reproduced in ibid., 280) forbidding Poles to buy fish and crustaceans.

21.
Circular of August 29, 1941, from the district president of Posen regarding the specific case of a mailing of butter, on the basis of which an action was initiated against the Polish recipient on a charge of violation of the decree on consumption regulations of April 6, 1940 (State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Schrimm 104, Bl. 155).

22.
Walk,
Als Jude in Breslau
(1975), entry of April 1, 1941, 21.

23.
Report of October 1940 by the district president of Hohensalza (University Library, Warsaw); export controls also existed in Danzig (Gda
sk)—West Prussia (report of May 21, 1941, by the district president of Hohensalza, p. 30, ibid.). Report of October 1940 by the district president of Hohensalza (p. 50 f., ibid.). Report of 18 September 1940 by the district president of Hohensalza (p. 6, ibid.), according to which the prices for everyday goods were much higher than in the Altreich. Rice, semolina, barley, and legumes were not to be had for weeks, to say nothing of fruit. The food shortage was attributed to massive purchases by the Wehrmacht.

24.
Meldungen aus dem Reich
, November 26, 1942, BA R 58/176 (wheat harvest almost totally “confiscated” by the Germans).

25.
See report no. 8 by the economic directorate of the office of the Reich governor of Posen to the head of the Four Year Plan, dated January 13, 1942 (State Archive Pozna
, R-sta 855, 51–52): “It was discovered that half of the Polish saleswomen had up to ten clothing cards that did not belong to them. A large number of loose coupons from Polish and German cards as well as German and Polish meat and fat coupons were also found. Foods such as sausage, butter, flour, and apples were also taken from the Polish saleswomen; they claimed to have received them for good service to German and Polish customers.” See also the circular of December 17, 1941, from the district president of Posen (State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm 143, Bl. 52); activity report for July 1941 by the
Kreisleitung
of Hohensalza
Land
(State Archive Pozna
, NSDAP Gauleitung Wartheland 14, Bl. 19): “Regarding the decree on the purchase of specific goods by Poles, such as bakery goods and fruit: though the decree is correct, it is rendered illusory by the behavior of the police…. For Poles are still being abundantly served by the Polish sales staff. The German owner of the shop is often not in a position to supervise these things. The population is rightly asking itself why [such] decrees are published at all, if they are not rigorously implemented” (
Meldungen aus dem Reich
, October 26, 1942, BA R 58/176). Extortionate prices were charged on the black market: for example, RM 50 for 1 kg of potatoes; RM 5 for 1 kg of bread; RM 12 for 1 kg of flour; RM 12 for 1 kg of peas; RM 2 for 1 liter of milk; RM 20–24 for 15 eggs; RM 26 for 1 kg of sausage; RM 70 for 1 kg of bacon; for details, see order of the day no. 77 of May 28, 1942, by the BdO Posen (State Archive Pozna
, BdO 5, p. 19) and the reports by the Security Police of Rawitsch (Rawicz) dated November 7 and 21, 1939 (State Archive Pozna
, Schutzpolizei 16, Bl. 49, 64), on searches of houses and apartment houses and seizure of hoarded food and other goods.