English Translation

$th 137 — Reichsarbeitsminister V a 5470/541 Berlin, 8 December 1939. To the gentlemen Presidents of the Landesarbeitsamten (including branches and special envoys) Work Einsass der Südtiroler The Einsasser der Südtiroler must be accelerated. Jnsbefondere must, according to the inter-state agreements, have left South Tyrol by 26 January 1940 the Reich Germans living in South Tyrol — a total of about 3,500 people. In order to speed up the return, I have, in accordance with a suggestion from the head office for immigration and return, sent to the official German immigration and repatriation office in Bolzano and its branches specialists from the office for the first-time immigration, who in particular have the task of ensuring the completion of the application documents according to the requirements of the work entrance when collecting the immigrants from South Tyrol. It can therefore be expected that, on the basis of the improved documents, the procurement of work places in the Reich region will now take place with the greatest acceleration. In order to speed up work entry, I have also simplified the procedure laid down in the above mentioned paragraphs and, in particular, provided that the Jnnsbruck Employment Office carries out the uniform recording of the entire work entry and provides continuous reports of success. For further details, please refer to the attached 'Measurement sheet for the collection, distribution and intake of South Tyrolean return migrants'. For the 'Final Notice' provided for in III 3 of the leaflet, the model shall be used, as well as the usual models of the final declaration to date, which may be used with the appropriate addition. Since the procurement of dwellings is often difficult at first, particularly since it will be necessary to repatriate to an increased extent in the near future, the head office for immigration and repatriation has led to the provision of repatriated homes for the foreign organization of the NSDAP, etc., for the temporary admission of a part of the resettlement and their family members. The procedure for distribution and call-out is also indicated in the accompanying leaflet; the national employment offices and employment offices have therefore, as far as such homes are provided in their districts — this applies first to the national labour office. (ii) the possibility of recruiting workers even if housing is not already possible at the time of entry into employment, but in a foreseeable time. The specialists of the employment administration, who are employed in the departments of the official German immigration and return office, have the task of bringing the destination and occupation wishes into line with the working requirements as far as possible at the time of recording. Above all, an undesirable follow-up to large towns and cities is to be avoided. Since some of the employees do not have proper training and since there are also a large number of job seekers from the catering and accommodation industry, it will not always be possible to avoid these forces in other professions, but work places which are related to the profession should be provided. In the case of apprentices who have not yet completed their apprenticeship, vocational guidance centres at the employment offices shall provide suitable apprenticeship places for the completion of their apprenticeship.