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

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Sza 48 D. On paragraph II.2b of the circular. Persons who were in the Reich or in third countries at the time of the conversion and are generally treated as settlers by the Reichsführer 3ß, Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums: 1. Reichsdeutsche mit Wohnsisse in Estonia or Latvia, who were staying at the beginning of the resettlement outside of Estonia or of Latvia and who moved their housing from these countries to the German Neich as a result of the conversion. 2. ReichsGerman heirs of resettled people from Estonia and Latvia or of persons who are treated as immigrants from Eftland or Latvia. 3. People or Reich Germans who lived in East Poland and entered the Neich after 31 August 1939, but before 16 November 1939 also via a third state. Persons who entered the Reich area before 1 September 1939 are settlers, if they are equated in individual cases by the Reichsführer fß, Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, to these. 4. German heirs of a resettlement authorized under the German-Italian agreements for the reconciliation of wealth, unless they have their residence in the Italian territory. E. On point II.3 of the circular. Persons generally treated as immigrants: persons of foreign nationality (Lithuania, Sweden, Danes, Finns, Russians, Estonians in Latvia, Latvians in Estonia and others), who left Eftland, Latvia or Eastern Poland during the resettlement, if they are naturalized in the German Reich. C. Classification of Amsiedlers from East= and South-East States into Groups A, O and S A=, Oz, S=Fälle In order to shape the integrated eastern regions into purely German territories according to the will of the Führer, it is necessary to make a certain selection among the Reichs- und Volksdeutsche Umsiedlern, who arrive in the eastern regions to the settlement. The Reichsführer has therefore ordered, as Reichskommission für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, that only the "Bon den Ärztorlichen Kommissionen als gesunden Umsiedler" come to the entrance in the adjacent eastern regions. In the case of foreign residents who do not represent a desired increase in the population, they are transferred to the Generalgouwernement. Foreign residents can then be settled in the Old Reich if they can be considered as health-worthy and there are no special reasons for admission to the generalgoubernement. Exceptions are made to all foreign members of the professions; these are intended in principle for admission to the general government. The Reichsführer has personally reserved the right to grant exceptions for foreign members to the professions. The examination and recording of the settlers from East and South-East states is carried out by the head of the security police and the SD., immigrant central office, according to the guidelines of the Reichsführer g, Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums. Here also the decision is made which settlers for the Einsasse in the adjacent eastern regions, in the