English Translation

Field command post The Reichsführer- November 1943 Tgb.Nr. 12 RF/V. To all °T Head of Office 2. Hüheren - wnd Polizeipührer po -e ca da do Volksdeutsche" in particular the designation "Volksdeutscher" for a German from any ethnic group, which is mostly used by the Germans within the Reich border with a certain depressing tone, to avoid as far as possible. If in the sense of the previous terms "Reichs- und "Volrsdeutschen" is spoken, düådian must make this distinction, then it is to be said of the "Germans within and outside the Reich border" gder of "German from the Reich" and "from the. Voltägruppen". In as many cases as possible "he is a German'. erz. H.Himm ler Z F.d.R. -Obersturmbannführer 45 Pl. Gonaft yK f2/12