"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (166 page)

88.
See the speech of November 5, 1939, by the Gauleiter in Schroda (ZS, Poland, film 14, sheet 731 ff.).

89.
Best, “Neue Gliederung und Verwaltung des ehemaligen polnischen Staatsgebiets” (1939), according to which the administration structure in the Annexed Eastern Territories had created “a maximum of collective spirit and unity,” which was the “model for the future administrative reform of the entire Reich.”

90.
For more details on the liquidation, see Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
(1961), 41 ff.; regarding extermination of the Jews, see T. Berenstein, A. Eisenbach, and A. Rutkowski,
Eksterminacja hitlerowskiej
(1957). With regard to evacuation, see the summary in Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 84 ff.; Łuczak,
Wysziedlenia Ludno
ci Polskiej
(1969) (
Doc. Occ.
8); also Datner, Gumbowski, and Leszczy
ski, “Wysiedlenia Ludno
ci ziem polskich wcielonych do Rzeszy” (1960); Stach, “Polenreservate im Warthegau” (1967), 153 ff.; Szulc,
Wysziedlenia Ludno
ci Polskiej
, W. Tzw. Kraju Warty I Na Zamoczy
nie Oraz Popełnione Przy Tym,
Bulletin of the Main Commission Warsaw
12 (1971) (all sources contain numerous references and documents); with regard to migration of the German population 1939–45, see the synthesis by Sobczak,
Hitlerowskie przedsiedlenia łudno
ci niemieckiej w dobie II wojny s’wiatowej
(1966).

91.
Memorandum of November 25, 1939, from the Race Policy Office of the NSDAP, quoted in
Doc. Occ.
5:2 ff., 16. See the letter of March 16, 1943, from the Reich governor of Wartheland to the RFSS on the principles of the “racial investigation of the Poles” and the answer from the RFSS of April (BA R 43 II/333); full details in Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 112 ff.

92.
Full details of this Polish policy will be found in Greiser,
Der Aufbau im Osten
(1942), Jena, 1942. Kiel speeches, no. 68, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, Bibl. Sign. II 40903/68. A good description of the Polish policy will also be found in the unsigned note from the office of the Reich governor of Posen dated November 24, 1939 (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
835, p. 4), which contains the following: “Regarding political principles of welfare legislation.
Secret:
Following a discussion with SS-Oberführer Mehlhorn, head of Abt. I, the following is noted: (1) Welfare legislation must be completely in the service of the principles of National Socialist policy in the former Poland. There is thus an interest in the Polish population only insofar as the working classes are concerned. The intelligentsia, particularly the leaders of officialdom, should all be deported to the area of the General Government. Those remaining here, who will be treated more or less as work slaves, should, however, be adequately remunerated and supported.”

93.
Full details in Greiser,
Der Aufbau im Osten;
see also Greiser’s speech at a meeting of the
Gau
Bureau for Nationhood Affairs, Wartheland, on March 20–21, 1943, in Posen, for the installation of the new
Gauamtsleiter
(Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
); report on a celebration in Posen on “Freedom Day” 1943 with speeches by Himmler and Greiser,
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
, February 25, 1943; Greiser’s speech before NSDAP
Kreisleiter
on January 3, 1944,
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
, January 4, 1944.

94.
Greiser,
Der Aufbau im Osten
, 9: “The German is the master of the land, and the Pole who works loyally and diligently is under the protection of the Reich … and indeed the great mass of the Poles feels absolutely fine with this” (see also Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
[1966], 57).

95.
See, for example, progress report, district director of Hermannsbad (Ciechocinek)/Regierungsbezirk Hohensalza (Inowrocław), for June 1941 (State Archive Pozna
, NSDAP Gauleitung Wartheland 13, sheet 12), which contains the following passage: “The behavior of the Poles has greatly deteriorated of late. They take much less pleasure in their work…. In order to be sure to catch every work-shy Polish layabout we intend to clamp down on the Polish churches one after the other and check all the Poles for their papers, work allocation, and so on.” Regarding the raids, see also the report of the Order Police, Kalisch (Kalisz), of November 15, 1939 (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
1831, sheet 11).