"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (178 page)

35.
Circular of June 1, 1940, by the police president, Posen, reproduced in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
, 237. The prohibition on visiting bars was perhaps also imposed later by a decree of the Reich governor, since a note dated February 18, 1942, by the head of Referat I/50 (Bureau of Nationhood Affairs) of the office of the Reich governor to Referat I/23 of that office indicated that he had no objection to the decree prohibiting entering public houses.

36.
Meldungen aus dem Reich
, July 4, 1940 (BA R 58/152).

37.
Cf. for example the note dated December 18, 1943, from SS-
Sturmbannführer
Höppner of Referat I/50 at the office of the Reich governor of Posen, I/50 (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
1174, 218), in which he refused a request from his office that Polish truck drivers working for German services might eat in German public houses, in order not to create a precedent: exceptions were to be made “only in very special cases.”

38.
But see police decree of June 1, 1941, by the district president of Łód
(Litzmannstadt) (
Amtsblatt Regierungspräsident Litzmannstadt
, in
Doc. Occ.
5:307), which forbade “other persons” to enter specific Polish public houses.

39.
See the SD reports,
Meldungen aus dem Reich
, July 4, 1940 (BA R 58/152): “Interested circles” were of the opinion that these instructions were the ruin of the “German public houses.”

40.
See, for example, the police decree (by the district president of Posen) of June 16, 1941, on opening hours for restaurants and public houses, admission of Poles to German bars, etc. (
Amtsbl. der Regierung zu Posen
, 1941, no. 9, p. 41); letter of September 16, 1940, from the district president of Posen to the police president of Posen and the district
Landräte
(State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Schrimm 104, Bl. 68); order of the day, January 20, 1940, by the HSSPF, Posen, no. 34 (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
); letter of September 16, 1940, from the district president of Posen to the police president of Posen and the district
Landräte
(State Archive Pozna
, Gendarmerie Schrimm 103, Bl. 163); police decree of June 16, 1941, by the district president of Posen (
Amtsbl. der Regierung zu Posen
, 1941, no. 9, p. 41). For Upper Silesia, see the police decree by the
Oberpräsident
of Upper Silesia of September 28, 1941 (
Amtsblatt Regierungspräsident Kattowitz
, 1940, Stück 26, no. 296, Warsaw University Library, Sign. 034693).

41.
Police decree of June 17, 1941, by the district president of Posen, which forbade the purchase of spirits over the counter by Poles (
Amtsblatt der Regierung zu Posen
1941, no. 9, 41).

42.
Inquiry dated January 23, 1941, by the police president, Sosnowitz (Sosnowiec), to the police president of Posen, who planned film shows for Poles in his district (Aktenzeichen IV 1, 6100, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-54), and answer of February 11, 1941, to the effect that visits to afternoon showings were permitted to Poles on working days only (Aktenzeichen II, 1, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I 4/29).

43.
Letter of January 18, 1944, from the Reich governor of Posen, Referat I/50, to the
Gau
Propaganda Office, Posen (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
1174, Bl. 246).

44.
Letter of June 17, 1943, from Referat I/50 of the office of the Reich governor of Posen to Abt. II 2 D: such construction was out of the question “for political reasons” (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
1174, Bl. 110).

45.
Letter of August 1943 (day of the month not indicated) from the Reich governor of Posen, Referat I/50, to Referat I/40, ibid., Bl. 207. Note dated June 12, 1944, from the head of Referat I/50 to the office of the Reich governor (Höppner) (Bl. 31).

46.
Letter of September 22, 1943, from the
Kreisleitung
of the NSDAP Hohensalza to
Gauleitung
NSDAP Posen, in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
, 351.

47.
In Polish law the districts (
Kreise
), towns, and rural communities (
Landgemeinden
) were autonomous corporations. Cf. Best,
Die Verwaltung in Polen
(1940) (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, library, Sign. II, 929).