English Translation

35 - 22 - Tragability in the German language of colloquium and in the Sorbian language of the house and relatively low degree of own cultural development should be maintained here as long as possible. (h) Poland (a total of 17.5 million, of which 7.5 - 8 in the Ostgauen, plus a quantity not well known in its number in the Altreich, especially Upper Silesia and Ruhr region), The Polish people are very racially mixed. With advances towards the east rising, different landscapes, the eastern and eastern Baltic proportion is becoming more and more decisive, with many attacks of Asian race elements showing themselves. In the west there is a partly distinctly northern - fälisch certain layer, which is likely to fall back partly to polo-nized German-born population. This layer, as well as parts of the German-Polish intermediate layers in the Warthegau and Gdansk-West Prussia, can be regarded as genuinely repopular or re-deutschable. An indiscriminate absorption (assimilation) of the Polish people, however, would mean the heaviest danger in racial terms, which is currently threatening us from the east. A real repopulation of the masses of the Polish people is impossible, this is demonstrated above all by the pole tribes in the Ruhr region. Another invasion of Poland, which would remain only unreally repopulated, would, in the long run, dissolve and destroy our people creatively and in character. The Polish agricultural and industrial workers, who in their mass are always alien and racially unwinned, must be grouped together and supervised in such a way that a social or even biological connection and mixture with us is excluded. Any superficiality and indifference in this problem is a crime on the German future. On the problem of Poland, the Racial Policy Office has drawn up its own detailed description. The Polish question lies at the level of people to people, it can therefore never be definitively solved only from power-political-economic considerations. Therefore, in its treatment must first be the Volkisch-Rassische - 23 -