English Translation

29a 42 For the accommodation of Ukrainians in the context of the Chelmer exchange settlement, the following letter is of importance: The Reichsführer Reichskommissar für die Festigung Berlin, 21 August 1940. German popularity O/78b/21.8.40/Dr. F/Klu An den - und Polizeiführer .BrigadeführER Globocnik, Lublin settlement of Wie Jhnen is known, Reichsführers originally ordered that the pre- Ükrainers in the standing exchange settlement of the People's Germans from the district Lublin and the five other general= districts of the district Warsaw, Garwolin, Siedlce, Minsk, Sokolow, Ostraumaz the districts goubernement Lublin, and Chelm be excluded, d. h. the districts of Lublin and Chelm, from which the native Germans are also removed, should not be repopulated for the time being in exchange with the Poles to be evacuated from Warthegau. Reichsführer 2 has now agreed, on the basis of ideas raised by the Office of the Governor General, that the Ukrainian farmers in the above-mentioned counties Chelm and Lublin who entered the Reichsgebiet as part of the Wolhynia German resettlement campaign will be attracted. These Ukrainian peasants are still in the camps of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle and can now be seen in march from there in agreement with the competent authorities, in particular with the head of the security police and the SD. and the office of the Governor General. However, as you have reported in the meantime, the number of farmers from Akrain is by no means sufficient for the resettlement of the so far ethnic German farms in the two districts Chelm and Lublin. According to Jhrem report, up to now about 80 °% of the people's Germans coming to resettled are resident in the above two districts. They have therefore asked for a decision whether the so far limited scope of the exchange settlement can also be extended to the two districts of Chelm and Lublin. The following is reported: From here there are no doubts that in the counties of Chelm and Lublin other persons are also attracted beyond the Ukrainian peasants, if necessary also those Poles, which are evacuated in the Warthegau. To decide on this, however, is the responsibility of the Governor General. However, an extension of the originally planned limited exchange settlement is not possible. As usual, those Poles of Warthegaues, which cannot be accommodated in the surrounding districts of the General Government outside the counties of Chelm and Lublin, have to be flown through the centre of Lissmannstadt as part of the exchange settlement. Above all, the German-speaking Poles are sifted out and conveyed to the Altreich or the Ostmark. The remaining Poles will then be made available to the Governor-General, who will decide in his own responsibility on the accommodation of the Poles in the General Government, i.e. also on the question whether these Poles are then served in the freed ethnic German courts of the counties of Chelm and Lublin. ....