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24a 38 7. I ask the NS.-Volkswohlfahrt to take responsibility again for the food and clothing of the Umfiedler from the Reich border to the occupation. Jhr is at the same time responsible for the care of healthy children and infants in kindergartens and cribs and the accommodation of the non-working-capable old with the exception of the frail and the sick. 8. I ask the Reichsgefundheitsführer to take over the accommodation and health care of the sick, pregnant and pregnant, and of those in need of treatment. He also provides the resettlement from the Reich border to the embassies in health and hygiene terms. 9. The evacuations necessary for the identification of the settlers are carried out by the head of the security police and the SD. 10. The measurement is carried out through the Reichsstatthalter or Oberpräsidenten der Ostgaue. Responsible for the execution are the higher ß and police leaders Vistula and Northeast as my commissioners. For this purpose, they form settlement rods, the measurement of which is yet to be ordered in detail. 11. The resettlements found by the medical commissions to be suitable for half of the population are settled in the Gdańsk-West Prussia and in the province of East Prussia, and this is done in Gdansk-Western Prussia in accordance with the settlement zone I, in East Prussia in the Zichenau negation district. 12. Only up to a quarter of the village's population (Lithuania Germans) are allowed to be occupied. If other people's Germans are already present in such communities, the quarter of people' s Germans in the village in question must not be crossed. After the war, the remaining three quarters are filled with Neichs Germans. 13. I reserve the right to decide on the measurement of the settlers designated for the Old Reich. The AK. maps of these settlers must be sent to the Reichskommissar for the consolidation of German ethnicity to the immigrant-Jentralstelle Nordost. 14. The resettlement of the Lithuanian Germans has to be concluded before the beginning of winter. ez. Himmler The Neichsführer Reichskommissar für die Festigung Berlin, September 10, 1940. German Volkstums I/O 13d/13.12.39 Fa/38. On the settlement The resettlement of the Lithuanian Germans will be begun immediately after the soon to be expected conclusion of the German-Russian intergovernmental treaty. In order to prepare for the settlement of the Lithuanian Germans in the Gaue Gdansk-West Prussia and East Prussia, I am sending in the annex the material prepared on the basis of the survey of the German Cultural Association in Lithuania. To this end, the following is to be said in detail: 1. Distribution of the Lithuania Germans to Gaue Danzig-West Prussians and East Prussians According to my order 19/1I of 22. On 1 July 1940, the resettlers found by the medical commissions to be healthy in the Reichsgau Gdańsk-Wesipreußen and in