English Translation

Copy Der Reichsminister des Inneren 26.July 1942. Berlin, the I e 5275/42 NW 7, Unter den Linden 72 Telex: Local call 12 00 84 5000 Telex 12 00 37 Telex : Drisverkehr 517 Telex K 1 517 You are asked to indicate this business sign and the wire address: Neichsinnenminister. Subject matter in case of further writing. Schnellbrief EINGEGANGEN 1-3 29.JUL1942y, 008151 An Der Reichspretektor a das Auswärtiges Amt, b den Leiter der Partei-Kanzlei, in Bohmenuhd Manren C das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, d) den Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums - Stabshauptamt, ) the Reichscommissar for the consolidation of German ethnicity - Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. a.d Subject: Ordinance on the settlement of nationality questions of 20 January 1942 (RGBl.I, p.40). On the basis of the proposals made by the participating German services in the territories under German sovereignty or occupied by German troops, I intend to issue the related circular. On the other questions which I had asked for discussion in my letter of 28 April 1942 - Ie 5057 I-III/42~ 5000 - I shall follow on the basis of the comments received- of: 1) Granting German nationality to groups of foreigners. My point of view, of which I am only sparingly entitled to exercise the power granted to me in § 1 para.3 of the Ordinance of 20 January 1942, has found general agreement. It follows from the comments received that the idea that all the volunteers serving in the Wehrmacht or in the Waffen-Ss, who are of German descent or are related (Germanic) people, are to be put into the possession of the German state authority by way of group distribution, is generally rejected.