English Translation

I0a 44 2. People's or Reich Germans who had their residence in the territory mentioned in my order or who came from there and were already in the Reich at the beginning of the resettlement or who entered the Reich from a third state for permanent residence in connection with a relocation operation from a Third State, provided that they are: (a) covered by the intergovernmental relocation agreements or (b) treated by me as resettled persons 3. Persons who do not or only partly correspond to the above forecasts, if I make them generally or in individual cases the same as the resettlements. 1II. Important explanations I pass on to you for information. Any changes will be communicated in due course. Please note that in the future, in Jhrem's business area, as far as it has not yet been done, the persons covered by my letter of amendment are to be designated uniformly as resettlers. To the circle of perfones listed under IIl in detail, which are to be regarded as resettlement within the meaning of the Führer's Decree of 7 October 1939 on the consolidation of German ethnicity (hereinafter referred to as Umsiedler), note: 1. First of all, resettlers are the persons who, without prejudice to the state's legal side, can be divided into two groups: (a) persons who have only left their country of origin on the basis of a conversion agreement, in which the conversion is predominantly of perfönical importance, and (b) persons, who have already stayed in the Reich or in third countries outside the Contracting State at the beginning of the relocation and who subsequently also resolve their property-related relations with the country of residence due to the agreements or the conversion. In the case of these persons, the perfederal importance of the conversion is regularly reduced behind the economic one. The purpose of the participation in the relocation is mainly to make the transfer of these people available, where applicable, and then to eat them. It is therefore possible to call the persons concerned so-called property resettlementers. In the case of the resettlement of property, it can be assumed that they are with their person for an ingestion in the settlement areas, if they do not arrive there at their express wish. In the case of persons resident in third countries, irrespective of the conversion agreements, it is therefore considered that they should take a permanent stay in the Reichsgebiet in connection with a relocation operation. In order to ensure that the aim of a consolidation of German folkdom is not affected by such wealth-settlementers, who maintain their traditional dwelling in the old kingdom, the property-siedlers are essentially excluded from the circle of the settlers, since the conditions are too different in order to allow for an independent separation from the rest of the resettlement.