Germany'S MINISTRY FOR CHEATURES AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 161, sig. 110-4/6

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$1\a}$ 14 5. The reception and execution is carried out by the immigrant headquarters in Gotenhafen and Poznan with the branch offices in Swinemünde and Stettin, which are under the head of the security police. 6. The distribution of the People's Germans to the provinces of West Prussia and Poze takes place by the director of the department of the Reichskommissar, ß-Oberführer Greifelt. 7. The provinces are not yet covered by this agreement. People's Germans are initially temporarily settled over the winter and are introduced into agricultural enterprises, workplaces, artisanal enterprises and used as civil servants in public service, etc. the representatives of the Reichskommissar, the ßy-group leaders Hildebrandt and Koppe, who have been assigned to them, with the services of the popular German immigrant advisory centre established in Poznan and Gdansk, which are under the responsibility of the leader of the folk Germans in the Baltic States, ß-standartenführer Dr. Kröger. November 1939. German People's Order 9/ll Accommodation In amendment to paragraph 3 of my order 4/1I of 3 November 1939, I order the resettlement that the accommodation of the return migrants on arrival in temporary quarters by the German labor front, NS.-Gemeinschaft "Kraft durch Freude" must take place. The NS.-Volkswohlfahrt is therefore only responsible for the catering of the return migrants. gez.Himmler The Reichsführer Neichskommissar für die Festigung Berlin, 3 January 1940. German Volkstums Ordnung 14/V Egalität yon I was informed that difficulties have arisen in the placement of the rich German immigrants coming from the Baltic countries because they were not treated and cared for in the same way as the people's Germans. In this connection, I would like to point out that, from now on, German returnees from the Baltic states will be treated in the same way as the returnees of the people of Germany will be dealt with at the employment agency. If the Reichsdeutschen is to be granted full freedom of movement with regard to the choice of job and place of residence, there is no doubt that these are also included in the Einsaß- action in the Warthegau.