English Translation

Copy of copy. D.R.d.F. F 4246 a - 504 GenB. Berlin, 8 February 1941. l. to the Deutsche Reichsbank -Zeichingabteilung - Be rlin clll. to your letter from 9.1.1941 - 362/41, which I send back in the appendix. On the occasion of the exchange offer of 24.l2.40, the intermediating credit institutions have to determine whether an applicant is a German national or a German citizen. The status as German national must be demonstrated by the presentation of documents such as nationality card, home document, passport, identification card, etc. In this regard, it is noted that the elderly relatives of a foreign, especially Czech and Polish people, who at the time of the integration of the Sudeten German territories into the German Reich had their residence there, have also become German nationals. Membership of the German people can only be proved by foreign nationals by the identification of the members of the ethnic group in the Slo-wakei and by the nationals of the General Government by means of the identification card followed by them. In all other cases, an affidavit is sufficient for the purpose of the exchange of the csl. state debt declarations that the applicant is committed to the German people. I refer to my decree of 29.ll.40 - F 4246- 299 GenB. I would ask you to make this decision known to the Kreissparkasse Teschen, as well as to answer any further requests from other credit institutions in this sense. Note: (According to § 6 of the decree of the Führer and Chancellor of the Reich dated 8.10.39 on the organization and administration of the eastern territories -RGBl I p.2O42 - the inhabitants of German or similar blood of the integrated eastern territories have become German citizens of the state - according to more detailed regulations. The people of these territories became citizens of the Reich.) The above letter to the Reichsbank is signed by the Minister of the Interior on 24.2.1994l -I e 5075/41 - 5000 0p., e.g. signature 3.3.41.