"Non-Germans" Under the Third Reich (197 page)

67.
See the general instruction of February 9, 1942, by the RFSS/RFK 12/C (Nuremberg doc. NO-4851;
Doc. Occ
. 5:150 ff.). Cf. the memorandum of January 16, 1940, by SS-
Untersturmführer
Dr. Strickner from Minsk (Masovia) (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I 5–18).

68.
According to A. Greiser,
Der Tag der Freiheit
1943 (
Der große Rechnschaftsbericht
, December 1943, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, Sign. III 757778), by October 14, 1943, 400,000 persons had received their registration cards 1 and 2 (German nationality), 60,000 group 3 cards, and 20,000 group 4 (German nationality until revoked).

69.
Instruction A 39/40 of March 2, 1940 (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I–332).

70.
RFSS/RFK instruction 66/1 regarding the implementation of the preliminary version of the German Ethnic Classification List (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I–253, reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:145 f.).

71.
Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 126, with examples from Upper Silesia and Danzig–West Prussia.

72.
Thus, people of “German stock” who had not applied for inclusion were to be reported to the appropriate Gestapo headquarters, which required that they provide evidence of registration within one week; those who did not provide such evidence were taken into protective custody or sent to a concentration camp (decree of February 16, 1942, by the
Reichsführer
-SS/RKF;
Doc. Occ
. 5:147), “with a view to preventing them from continuing their flirtation with Poland.” Poles “of German stock” who had returned or refused to accept their registration cards in order to avoid serving in the Wehrmacht were also arrested (given “protective custody”) and asked after two weeks at the earliest whether they wished to undertake their military service. In the event of refusal, they too were sent to concentration camp for an “appropriate period of imprisonment” (RSHA decree of May 12, 1942, Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
, doc. I-253, reproduced in
Doc. Occ
. 5:147 f.; also printed in
Vertrauliche Information der Parteikanzlei
no. 51/680 of July 17, 1942;
Verfügungen
, 2:169 ff., 178 f.).

73.
As stated in a secret communication dated November 6, 1944, from the head of the SD in Posen to the Reich governor of Posen; the
Reichsführer
-SS had ordered “vigorous measures” in such cases and had already had a person in group 3 of the German Ethnic Classification List executed. If in spite of such examples people on the register refused to accept their registration cards, a “recommendation for special treatment” (i.e., execution) should be submitted to the appropriate quarters (
Kommandeur
of the Security Police IV) for transmission to the RSHA “on instructions of the head of the SIPO and the SD” (State Archive Pozna
,
Reichsstatthalter
1174, Bl. 8).

74.
Manuscript (undated) submitted by the NSDAP
Gauleitung
of Wartheland in 1944 (Institute for Western Studies, Pozna
).

75.
More details in Broszat,
Nationalsozialistische Polenpolitik
, 127.

Part One. Section 2. C. VI. Marriage Law

1.
Decree of May 31, 1941, on the Introduction of the Nuremberg Race Laws in the Annexed Eastern Territories and Second Implementing Order (
RGBl
. I 297).

2.
Regarding restrictions among members of the Party on permission to marry “aliens” (Poles, Czechs, and Hungarians), see the deputy Führer’s instruction of November 23, 1940 (
Verfügungen
, 2:56 f.); with regard to top-ranking officials of the Party, public service, or the Wehrmacht, see the confidential information from the deputy Führer of August 21, 1941 (56 ff.); with regard to SS members, see the deputy Führer’s circular of January 13, 1941 (58); regarding members of the Wehrmacht, see the secret OKW decree of January 26, 1942 (58 ff.), and the Party Chancellery circular of November 26, 1942 (60).

3.
As noted in the letter of April 14, 1943, from the Reich Ministry of the Interior to the Reich governor in Danzig–West Prussia and the Warthegau (ZS, Posen, film 14, Bl. 610–15).

4.
If thereby racial questions were involved, the matter also concerned the Reich Ministry of the Interior (Abt. IV, Ref. I) (Sauer,
Das Reichsjustizministerium
[1939], 58 f.).

5.
Transcript of meeting at Reich Interior Ministry on January 21, 1943, on marriage questions in the Annexed Eastern Territories (reproduced in Łuczak,
Dyskryminacja Polaków
[1966], 360 f.)

6.
Report of September 19, 1940, from the district president of Hohensalza (Inowrocław), p. 2 (University Library Posen). Cf. also Hitler, quoted in Picker,
Hitlers Tischgespräche
(1951), 247: “Given the Poles’ fecundity, the more abortions performed the better. Consistent use of contraceptives must therefore not only be permitted, but even encouraged.”

7.
Order of the day no. 28, quoted in Łuczak,
Diskriminierung der Polen
, 359 f.

8.
AZ I/6, 113/5; State Archive Pozna
1941–43, 11.

9.
Polish Civil Code of 1928, sec. 1303.

10.
Decree of September 10, 1941, by the Reich governor of the Wartheland to the district presidents (State Archive Pozna
, Polizeipräsidium Posen 11, Bl. 6).