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The federal 4-and Dolizeiführer Berlin, the l9. BBebnuar aten. The Reichsninister of the Inner Pol. p. IV E 2 - 2411 - f3- $ Entrance on: 2 6. 11. 1940 Ann.: 6/8.d.d aaatas Stabsf. fbt. Bearb. 0n'ils9 Prohibition: All organisations of Polish nationals existing in the German Reich, including the Ostmark and Sudetenland, are hereby appointed on the basis of this. § 1 of the decree of the President of the Reich concerning the protection of the people and the state of 28.2.33 (RGBl. p. 83), the 2nd decree on the law on the reunification of Austria with the German Reich of 18.3.38 -RGBI. I p. 262- and the 3rd decree concerning the decree for the administration of the southern territories of 22.lo.38 (R GBl. I pp. 1453). On the basis of the Reichsgesetz v. 14.7.33 (RGBl. I S 479), § 1 para.2 of the Ordinance on the confiscation of property hostile to the people and to the state in the Land of Austria v. 18.1 l.39 (Rgesetzl. i S 162c) and § 1 par. 1 of the Decree on the collection of property enemy to the nation in the Sudeten German territories, dated 12.5.39 (Reg. I S 9ll) it is noted that the organizations referred to in paragraph I have promoted anti-grassroots and anti-rich aspirations. The assets are collected with the restriction that the organisations of Polish nationals, which pursue economic purposes and are constituted in the form of legal persons, first have to initiate liquidation in the course of this prohibition. Infringements of this prohibition, which are committed in the Old Kingdom, are punishable by the provisions of § 4 of the Ordinance of 28.2.33. The national organisations of Polish nationals have, in most cases, pursued objectives throughout their existence, but in particular during the crisis days of August/early September l939, and carried out an activity which was capable of presenting a serious threat to public security and order in the Reich.