"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (206 page)

16.
Letter of July 14, 1942, from the local SD office, Schrimm, to the Gendarmerie Schrimm (with reference to an instruction by the head of the
Leitabschnitt
Posen), with the request to contact the police in order to intercept Polish correspondence and to hand over any letters found during house searches to the SD (State Archive Pozna
).

17.
Nuremberg doc. NO-1614.

18.
See, for example, instruction no. 51 of September 11, 1939, by the Reich Rubber Office regarding delivery and confiscation of tires (
Amtsblatt der Regierung zu Posen
1940, 30 f.).

19.
Letter of November 25, 1941, from the district president of Posen to the
Gau
Chamber of Commerce of Posen; the district president asked the district presidents of Hohensalza (Inowrocław) and Łód
to issue identical instructions (State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm 143, Bl. 50).

20.
Police decree of December 6, 1941 (
Verordnungsblatt des R-sta Warthegau
no. 43 of December 19, 1941, pp. 608–9; reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 209 ff.). In addition to the usual fine of RM 150 or three weeks’ detention, violations carried the penalty of forced labor for Poles; see also the letter of November 25, 1941, from the district president of Posen to the
Gau
Chamber of Commerce of Posen (State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm 143, Bl. 50).

21.
Letter of June 28, 1941, from the district president of Posen to the
Landräte
of the district and the police president of Posen, which refers to a police decree published in the
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
and instructs its implementation (State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm 143, Bl. 43). It is not clear whether the police decree was issued by the supreme SS and police chief or the district president of Posen. The decree is perhaps identical with that of July 5, 1941, issued by the district president of Posen on seizure and surrender of cameras and binoculars in Polish hands (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
). See also the letter of August 13, 1941, from the
Landrat
Grätz (Graz) to the district president of Posen (State Archive Pozna
, Landratsamt Grätz 22, Bl. 49; also reproduced in Łuczak,
Grabie
polskiego mienia
[1969], 31 f.): “Sixty-three cameras and binoculars have been surrendered by Poles or confiscated in this district.”

22.
Police decree of January 21, 1942, by the district president of Kattowitz (
Amtsblatt des Regierungspräsidenten Kattowitz
of January 31, 1942, Stück 5, University Library, Warsaw, Sign. 034693).

23.
Confidential radio message from the district president of Łód
to all police offices, January 5, 1942 (Az. P 1, 120/11/1; State Archive Pozna
, Landratsamt Kempen 16, Bl. 22–23).

Part One. Section 2. IX. Food Supply

1.
The police decree (
Amtsblatt Regierung Kattowitz
1940, University Library, Warsaw, Sign. 034693) was issued “to the decree of October 24, 1939, by the head of the civil administration, Kattowitz [Katowice], on dealing with police violence” (
Verordnungsblatt
no. 21, October 24, 1939).

2.
Amtsblatt Regierung Kattowitz
1943, Stück 1, Ausgabe B, University Library, Warsaw, Sign. 034693).

3.
Notification by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Posen (Pozna
) dated February 20, 1940, published in the
Ostdeutscher Beobachter
, March 4, 1940 (reproduced in the directives of September 11, 1940, by the Security Police, Posen, on shopping hours for Poles, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-640, Bl. 2), according to which Germans were permitted to shop throughout the day, including the morning hours between 8:00 and 12:00, whereas Poles were restricted to the afternoon. A police decree by the Oberbürgermeister and the police president of Posen dated November 8, 1940, was appended to the notification (Bl. 5, also in
Amtsblatt der Regierung zu Posen
1940, no. 7, 64, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-421). The decree applied to the food shops designated as German businesses and to all market stalls, whoever owned them. Only Germans identifying themselves as such were permitted to purchase food at the latter between 6:00 and 9:30 A.M. from April to September, inclusive, and between 7:00 and 10:00 A.M. from October to January. Notification of March 15, 1940, by the Oberbürgermeister of Posen, contained in the directives of September 11, 1940, by the Security Police, Posen (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-640, Bl. 2), forbidding sales to “aliens” between 6:30 and 10:00 A.M. from April to September, inclusive, and between 7:00 and 11:00 A.M. from October to March. Order of the day no. 43 of July 25, 1940, by the BdO, Posen, calling for strict surveillance of shopping hours on account of “repeated complaints” (State Archive Pozna
, Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei 3).