English Translation

Office of the State Secretary at the Reichspeotektoc 103 in Bohemia and Moravia. Security Service RFL Eing.: 22.FEB.1940 SD-Head Section Prague. E1 Tgb. Nnc./295 Prague, 21 February 1940. State Secretary to the 22 Reichsprotektor in Böhmen and Moravia, by = 4-Group Leader K. H. Fr a n k , Prague. $.d. /.2015.40. Betr.: Verwischung der Grenzen zwischen deutschen und Volkspolen. Vorg.: ohne. The following message from the Reichssicherheitshauptamt of 7 February 194o is communicated with the request for information: "In the areas of eastern Germany which have become rich German, the attempt by the Poles to keep the border opposite the People's Germans takes more and more concrete forms. The Poles hope to escape the evacuation by showing German relatives (even if they are often only German citizens of Polish ethnicity) or by stressing a partly German descent. Also the attempt to be counted as indispensable skilled workers is often undertaken. Those Poles, who lived in the eastern regions of the Reich before October 1918, were generally assured that the evacuation would only meet the immigrant "congressors" and "Ga- lizians". The Polish attempt to liquidate the national border between Germans and Poles is, according to many reports, unintentionally encouraged by measures taken by German departments which have an impact in this form. the numbers of members of various new organizations from the people of Germany announced as success reports are considered as proof that in the $\C8 - 2 -