English Translation

17a - 9 - active popular struggle possible, so conversely, the economic NCE positions could often only be held by clever restraint tisdae. Therefore, under the compulsion of conditions, the peoples in economically more favorable positions have often attenuated as landowners, merchants, craftsmen, etc. In the case of all internal preservation of their Germanism, a special emergence which would have been linked to a threat to their economic existence and, if it had included other circles, would have led to a danger to the aims pursued on the one hand. Anderse and other economically dependent circles, especially the officials, on the Polish side have often been exerted a strong pressure, which made it impossible for them to actively operate their German language if they did not want to lose their existence. These persons are to be entered, in spite of the restraint which they maintain in the struggle for ethnicity, into Volksdeutsche und in Abteilung 2 of the German People's List. Prerequisite for their registration in Division 2, however, is that they have not entered into ties to the Polishdom, which exclude the assumption that they had preserved their Germandom. According to the situation of the relations, such ties cannot easily be seen in the mere membership of one or the other Polish organization. Membership of Polish economic organizations was sometimes unavoidable; membership of cultural organizations was not infrequently enforced by superiors among members of the public service; in these cases, the assumption that Germanism had not been preserved is therefore not justified without further evidence. The situation is different with regard to the participation of Polish plitic organizations. Not only in the membership of the insurgent association, the Nestmarkenverein, an Optantenverein or similar strongly anti-German organizations, 91292