"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (198 page)

11.
More in Greifelt, “Festigung Deutschen Volkstums in den Ostgebieten” (1940).

12.
Reich Ministry of the Interior instruction of December 8, 1939, I. Ost 1012/39/4107, in which the Reich governors (
Oberpräsidenten
) were ordered to follow the instructions of the RFK insofar as these instructions were not issued on the basis of RKF directives by way of the Supreme Reich Authorities (Greifelt, “Festigung Deutschen Volkstums in den Ostgebieten,” 18).

13.
Transcript (reproduced in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
, 360 f.).

14.
Letter of April 14, 1943, to the Reich governors in Danzig–West Prussia and the Wartheland (ZS, Poland, film 1, Bl. 610–15).

15.
Nuremberg doc. NO-3592.

16.
RGBl. I 271.

17.
See the directives of September 22, 1944, by the head of the Central Race and Settlement Office of the SS regarding the Reich Ministry of the Interior/RKF decree of January 10, 1944 (Nuremberg doc. NO-3592), according to which all marriages of Polish “protected nationals,” including among themselves, were forbidden pending the proclamation of the implementing provisions.

18.
Report of October 20, 1941, from district president Hohensalza (p. 7–8): “Since for the Poles marriage is not a condition for having children, and indeed the Polish Catholic priests not only encourage Polish couples to have a lot of children, but even approach Polish girls to put children into the world (see my comments in my previous race policy report), while this decree [i.e., of September 10, 1941, Az. I/52, 113/3–4, by the Reich governor of Posen on raising the age of consent], may not have the effects its form might lead us to expect, it may be presumed that it will help to prevent the birthrate from increasing further among the Poles.” Also, in a report of April 8, 1942 (p. 8), he states: “The number of illegitimate Polish children has constantly increased these past months, so that we have to presume that it is systematic. Under these circumstances I do not believe that reducing the age of consent for Polish men and women will have a practical impact in the long run. We should therefore study what measures to take in order to put an end to the constant rise in the number of illegitimate births (higher maintenance costs for the father of the child, exclusion of unmarried Polish mothers from welfare through the official guardianship).”

19.
Note by the SS brigade chief, Danzig-Posen, of October 7, 1944 (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
doc. I-729).

Part One. Section 2. C. VII. Freedom of Movement and Personal Liberty

1.
Police decree of April 30, 1942, by the district president of Kattowitz (Katowice) (
Amtsblatt Regierung Kattowitz
of April 30, 1942, Stück 19, no. 129, University Library, Warsaw, Sign. 034693).

2.
Decree of July 16, 1943, by the district president (
Amtsblatt
1943, Stück 31, no. 143, University Library, Warsaw, Sign. 034693).

3.
These included Ukrainians, Russians, White Ruthenians, Masurians, Kashubs, etc.

4.
Police decree of April 25, 1942 (
Amtsblatt
of April 30, 1942, no. 129, University Library, Warsaw, Sign. 034693).

5.
Police decree of February 12, 1940, by the district president of Łód
, printed in the
Litzmannstädter Zeitung
of November 22, 1941.

6.
Preliminary result in the
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
no. 15 of November 15, 1939, reproduced in the circular of December 11, 1939, by the district Gendarmerie chief of Posen (Pozna
), no. 19 (reproduced in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
[1966], 269 f.); ban on new arrivals repeated in a decree of January 1943 by the Reich governor of Posen, printed in the
Hohensalzaer Zeitung
of January 15, 1943.

7.
State Archive Pozna
1940–41, 28.

8.
Report of February 21, 1941, for the period January 16 to February 15 by the district president of Posen (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
854, Bl. 5).

9.
Instruction of November 11, 1939, by the chief of police of Posen (
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
, November 14, 1939).

10.
Instruction by the Reich Railways director, Posen, in
Amtsblatt der Reichsbahndirektion Posen
, Folge 40, of September 6, 1944, 281.

11.
Instruction of April 5, 1940, by the Bürgermeister of Plozk (Płock),
Kreisblatt für Płock
of the same date (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
).

12.
Police instruction of July 26, 1940, by the Bürgermeister of Plozk,
Kreisblatt für Płock
of July 27, 1940. Instruction of February 10, 1940, by the
Landrat
of Plozk,
Kreisblatt für Płock
of the same date (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
).

13.
Report by Dept. 2 of the office of the Reich governor of Posen for the last quarter of 1941 (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
855, Bl. 24).

14.
See the report of July 8, 1941, by the district president of Hohensalza (Inowrocław) (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
856, Bl. 16), demanding “centralized sanatoriums for tuberculous Poles” and concentration of all Jews in one place, on account of the “epidemic risk” they entail; report by Dept. 2 of the office of the Reich governor of Posen for the last quarter of 1941 (
Reichsstatthalter
855, Bl. 24), according to which the possibility of isolating 3,000–5,000 sick Poles in the first instance was being investigated. That report indicated that 7,122 Germans and 17,592 Poles suffering from tuberculosis had been reported in the Warthegau as of October 1, 1940.