English Translation

1008 -2- will be ordered in due course. Already now in the territories of the commanders of the Vehrmacht Osthnd and Ukraine, in the Gen. Gouvernement and Wehrkreis I, the members of the following tribes: Caucasians, Azerbaijanis, Armenians, North Caucasus, Turkmens, are to be accommodated separately, as far as possible, in special camps depending on their ethnicity, II. Release of minority members. First of all, only: Volksdeutsche Ukrainians Weissruthenen Lithuanian Latvians Estonians. Their dismissal must be accelerated by all means, in order to be able to use them on the one hand for the employment in the newly occupied eastern areas, on the other hand to free the camps for new admissions in case of the expected further attack of Soviet war. Those to be released must be thoroughly checked for their political reliability by means of the defenses in agreement with the SD Operations Commands. On OKW/Kriegsgef. Nr., 3o58/4l go, is referred, German enemy elements, Jews etc, must be excluded from the dismissal, For professional soldiers_ (officers, non-commissioned officers, etc. In general, as well as in reserve officers, a dismissal is to be foreseen, since members of the minorities generally became active soldiers or reserve officers only if they were considered politically reliable from the Bolshevik point of view, A dismissal of these groups can only be regarded de d a politically as in the devch interest. 4 75720 -6-