English Translation

h 31 5. Bessarabia and North Bukovina The division of tasks during the Befsarabian resettlement has been carried out as follows: Neichsführer Neikskommissar für die Festigung Berlin, August 20, 1940. German Volkstums O/13f/12.10.39/Dr. F/Klu Ordnung 21/ll Umfiedlung der Volksdeutsche aus BefSarabia und dem an die UdSSN. As the rainy season begins in mid-October in this area distribution and thus the transport of goods becomes considerably more difficult, I ask all the participating bodies to make their preparations in such a way that the transport can be completed by mid- October. I order for the implementation of the relocation: 1. The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle is responsible for: (a) the settlement of the settlers in Besarabia and Northern Buchenland; (b) the transport to the Reich border, in particular the establishment of the trek routes, shipping and railway lines with the authorities of the UdSSN, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Hungary; the provision of food and medical and hygienic care; (c) accommodation in camps where relocation from village to village is not possible. The resettlers are accommodated in the camps in a district or community manner. In the camps, the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle provides for the payment of the support funds in agreement with the German resettlement trust society m. b. H. 2. The chief of the police is responsible for the transport of the resettled people from the Reich border to the camps or camps. The Higher 2 and Police Leaders carry out transport in their territories according to the orders of the Chief of the Order Police. 3. The Immigrant Centre Northeast takes care of the health examination and reception of the resettlement workers. 4. The German Resettlement Trust G. m. b. H. is responsible for the questions of the acquisition of property and the compensation of property, including possible preliminary research of the settlers with cash funds according to the given guidelines. The commissioners of the German resettlement trust G. m. b. H. belong during their activities in Bessarabia or Buchenland to the relocation commission of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle. 5. I ask the National Socialist People's Welfare to take responsibility again for the pledge and clothing of the settlers from the Reich border to the embassies, the placement of healthy children and infants in kindergartens and cribs as well as the accommodation of the non-working-capable elderly with the exception of the frail and the Siechen, and also to support the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle in the care of the Umsiedler beyond the border.