"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (201 page)

37.
Letter of February 24, 1943, from the
Gau
Chamber of Commerce, Warthegau, to the Reich governor of the Warthegau, reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 252 f.

38.
Police decree, October 21, 1940, by Reich governor of Posen on use of the waterways between the Oder and Vistula Rivers (Tgb. no. 5772.7, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
). Police decree of November 21, 1940, by the district president of Posen (
Amtsblatt der Regierung zu Posen
1940, 65, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
).

39.
Instruction of June 15, 1940, by the Reich governor of Posen (Az. I/11, 16575; Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-424).

40.
See the instruction by Posener Straßenbahn AG,
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
no. 332 of November 29, 1940 (reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 257), forbidding Poles to use trams at the beginning of the working day (7:15 to 8:15 A.M.); Poles were to leave all tramcars at 7:15 A.M.; on certain lines Poles were allowed to use only the trailer, but the measures were considerably tightened later (see instruction of January 21, 1941, by the
Kommandeur
of the Posen Security Police, Az. S 1b 7161/22.1, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
). Poles could no longer use Posen trams between April 1 and 30, 1941, from 6:30 to 7:30 A.M.; travel in the front carriage was forbidden
all
days of the week (including Sunday) after 7:30 A.M.; smoking was forbidden in the cars and on the platforms (instruction of Posener Straßenbahn AG,
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
no. 91 of April 1, 1941; reproduced in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
, 256). Later instructions of December 1941 were particularly humiliating, requiring that certain locomotives carry the notice “For Germans only” (
Kommandeur
of the Security Police, Posen, December 8, 1941, Az. S 1a 5140/6.12, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
) and that if all seats were taken in a car, Poles were to make room for Germans (instruction of December 1, 1941, by Posener Straßenbahn AG, reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 257 f.).

41.
See the report from a government department, State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
853, p. 2: “The
Landkommissar
of Kosten (with a view to suppressing the illegal exchange of information) has had all bicycles confiscated and has returned them only against passes on which the routes taken each day are marked.”

42.
Police decree of June 25, 1941 (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-423;
Amtsblatt der Regierung zu Posen
1941, pp. 52 f.), with implementing instructions of September 20, 1941, regarding the marking of bicycles, in the communication of October 10, 1941, from the district president of Posen to the chief of police of Posen and the
Landräte
of the district (State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Schrimm 104, Bl. 177). Police decree of July 1, 1940, by the district president of Łód
, in which it was specified in addition that the bicycles used should be marked with white stripes (
Litzmannstädter Zeitung
of November 22, 1941). See also order of the day no. 8 of September 22, 1944, by the HSSPF Posen (reproduced in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
, 258).

43.
See the application of March 12, 1942, by a Pole for permission to use his bicycle to visit his parents, who lived 20 km away, reproduced in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
, 254 f.; the
Amtskommissar
and the
Landrat
had no objection, but the Gestapo refused the application on “political grounds in the interest of the state.”

44.
See the summary propaganda report of September 4, 1943, by the District Propaganda Office, Lissa (Leszno), for August 1943 (State Archive Pozna
, NDSAP District Directorate, Lissa, 46, Bl. 29).

45.
For example, reference by the Oberbürgermeister of Posen on the severe punishments imposed for misuse of bicycles,
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
of June 6, 1943. Order of the day no. 8 of September 22, 1944, by the HSSPF Warthegau (reproduced in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
, 258).

46.
Sec. 4 of the police decree of June 25, 1941, by the district president of Posen (
Amtsblatt der Regierung zu Posen
1941, no. 10, p. 52 f.).