English Translation

3. 91 The Reichsführer Reichskommissar für die Festigung Berlin, 12 September 1940. German Volkstums I/K O 3b/28. 3.40 Decree for the verification and separation of the population in the integrated eastern regions A. Advancement Before the beginning of the fundamental reorganization of the populations in the incorporated eastern regions Voltstumserlässung the clear realization of the following points is necessary: I. Current population status According to the latest statistics, 8 100 000 Germans, 610 000 Jews, 8 530 000 Poles, 180 000 others (Slonzaks, Ukrainians, Russians and Czechs) were present in the four Eastgaus. In the Gau Gdansk-West Prussia, for example, there are 1,120,000 Kashuben, 2, some 100,000 former Poles who, due to mixed marriages and cultural influences, tend to Germanism, in the Negation district Kattowiż 1. around 120,000 Slonzaken, 2. Around 400 000 to 500 000 Upper Silesians (Water Poles), in the Zichenau administrative district and in the Suwalki district around 5 000 Masuren. II. Future consolidation of the population The planned review and separation will give e8 the following groups of the previous population: Group A. German people, who ate the German nationality and the Reichsbürgerrecht. Group B. German tribes, who are re-educated into fully-fledged Germans, and therefore only the German nationality, but at first not the Reichsbürgerrecht bessießen. The re-in Germanization is to be carried out in general in the Old Reich. Group C. Valuable foreign-Pölkish and German renegades, who ate the German state affiliation on revocation. These have to be re-enacted in the Old Reich. Group D. Foreign nationals who do not possess German nationality.