English Translation

In the case of the Federal Republic of Germany, there is no reason to believe that there is a need for the German Government to take the necessary measures to ensure that German citizens are able to exercise their right to vote in the local elections. The knowledge of some measures directed against Germanism is often only due to the Germans in the public service. That many of them, in order to maintain their position, sometimes had to make external concessions does not justify the assumption of ties to Polishism. On the other hand, those persons of German descent in the public service who, in the interests of their progress, have denied their ethnicity and have moved to the Polish camp are to be judged differently. Entry into the public service shortly after the establishment of the Polish State, which after temporary employment followed a voluntary or forced departure from the service, often speaks for the German ethnicity of the former official; adoption of a public office after the tightening of political contradictions is, on the other hand, usually a sign of Polish attitude when it is a more or less political office. (6) The following groups are entered in Division 3 of the German People's List: (a) the German-born persons who have entered Poland in the course of the years, but whose behaviour appears to have given them the condition that they become fully-fledged members of the national community;