STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1789, sig. 109-5/17

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32a 4 For the evacuations carried out from 18 to 30.ll.1940 in the districts of Neustadt, Dir-schau, Kulln, Schwetz, Graudenz, Thorn and Bromberg, 1 Pole Company of the police administrations of Danzig and Brommberg were used. In addition to the general police duties, the surveillance of the total blackout in Gdansk and Elbing and the increased blackout throughout the Reichsgau required a special operation of the police. On 22 January 1940, the police department of Gollup arrested a criminal sought for robbery and burglary theft. During the period of the report, major damage caused by intentional and negligent arson broke out in the districts of Werder, Strasburg, Rippin, Berent and Bromberg.The technical emergency aid was used with the local group Danzig to repair a damaged dike near Danzig and with the village group Kulm in the settlement of softsel German repatriates. 3. Reichsgau Wartheland. During the evacuations carried out in Reichs Gau, about 1,500 families with about 8,000 people were displaced from about 400 villages during the period under review. The resettlement of the Hauländer was completed on 13.12.1940. Around 80 O00 land Poles were evacuated in 9 months and new homes were created for the same number of German farmers. Larger searches were carried out on 7 December 1940 in a suburb of Poznan and on 22 January 1940 in the district of Lask. At the latter all the criminals wanted there by the criminal police were arrested. Larger commandos are used to guard the ghettos in Litz- mannstadt, Kutno and Leslau. In Litzmannstadt, 9 Jews were shot when the ghetto was abandoned. The 64774