STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 408, sig. 109-4/153 Page 29 · 29 of 52
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 408, sig. 109-4/153
English Translation
1Sa - 2 - nnne asd rsdlinimabister9@ I (1) By the decree on the establishment of the German People's List and the acquisition of German nationality in the integrated eastern areas of 4 March 1941 (Reichsgesetzbl.I p. 118), a German Peoples List was established in the annexed eastern areas to accommodate the German population. The decree also definitively regulates the acquisition of German nationality by former Polish and Gdańsk nationals. My circular of 25 November 1939 (RMBliV.S.2385), which provisionally regulated the purchase of German citizenship in the integrated eastern regions, is thus essentially outdated and is repealed. C II (2) For the registration in the German People's List it is clear that no German blood may be lost and foreign people used. Active activity for Germanism is therefore not a prerequisite for the entry into the German people's list. Even an indifferent or even a bad German remains German, and it must be prevented - if not for his own sake, but for his children's sake - from pushing him off against his will into the non-German camp and leading him to it through German blood. In the eastern regions no German must be denied access to the German community. It is therefore necessary to take account of the following aspects in particular for the registration in the German People's List. It must, however, be stressed that, when taking account of the individual features listed below, the overall personality must always be assessed for both the national classification as such and for inclusion in the individual divisions of the German People's List, and not solely on the basis of a characteristic.