English Translation

Copy. 0 The Minister of the Interior Berlin Nw. 40, 20 October 1939 I East 312/39 Königsplatz 6, 4004 B8 telex! An a) the Chief of Administration at the Military Commander Poznan in Poznań, b) the Head of Administration of the Military Commandant West Prussia in Gdansk c) the High President in Wroclaw, d) the Prime Minister in Königsberg. Betr.: Decree of the Führer and Chancellor of the Reich on the structure and administration of the eastern regions. PIUNSrLTES The Führer has ordered that his decree on the organization and administration of the eastern regions of 8 October 1939 (RGBl. I p.2042) already enter into force with the 26 October d.Js. I therefore request that all preparatory work be initiated immediately which the administrative organization which enters into force on 26 October should require. The arrangement of the authority of the Reichsstatthalter in West Prussia and Poznan follows shortly by me. II edoa 89 After the above-mentioned decree of the Führer of the 8th Ok-tober d.Js. The Reichsgaue West Prussia and Poznan, and in these Reichs Gauen, as well as in the provinces of Shle- sien and East Prussia, the administrative districts of Danzig, Marien- Hohensa zal beir, Bromberg, Poznań, Kalisch, Katowice and Zichenau To the (Ciekhanov) Higher W and police leaders (including Ostmark, Protectorate and Poland) with Abdr. f.d Inspectors d. Ordn.-Pol. bezwei. Commandant of the Order Police -.