English Translation

135 - 2 - 4. with a staff member of the Chief of Staff of the Reichsführer SS Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutischen Volkstums. III. Between the four main offices of the SS involved, the following basic delimitation of tasks is ordered: l. V o l k s d e u t s c h e m i t e l l e . The Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle leads to the consolidation of Germanism in the Reich and in the territories under the sovereignty of the Reich. This work also includes the formation of measures for the reception of persons capable of Germanization (Volksliste III and IV) and German-speaking foreign peoples into the German Volksgemeinschaft. You are responsible for the resettlement from the former residential area and for the sanctified conduct and care in the camps within the framework of possible resettled peoples of the People's Germans. (In addition, the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle runs on behalf of the Reichsaussenminister and on my behalf the Volksdeutschmen). The Reichssicherheitshauptamt deals with all problems of ethnicity arising from the presence of foreign peoples in the Reich and in the territories under the sovereignty of the Reich. These include, in particular, the Pragues of foreign ethnic minorities in the Empire as well as the use of foreign folk workers. Furthermore, the Reichssicherheitshauptamt carries out the necessary separation of all foreign peoples. The Reichs Security Hauptamt is also responsible for the entire information service in all peoples as well as for the submission of political assessments. In the case of political assessments of the People's Germans, the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt is involved by the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle by including its opinion. In the event of mutually divergent assessments, agreement must be reached between the two departments on the evaluation to be made. As a special task, the Reichsssicherheitshauptamt carries out the recording of all ethnic German settlers by the EWZ.