English Translation

10a - 20 - (23) The work carried out so far in the individual Reichsgauen (provinces) of the integrated eastern regions for the determination of the German peoples must be made fully usable for the work of the Deutscher Volksliste. The authorities so far concerned with the determination have to hand over the ma terial to the competent branch of the German People's List in an orderly manner, as far as it is not the material grown up by the Reichsstatters (Oberpräsidenten) and the Government Presidents in the integrated eastern regions, which is the permanent central office or the central office. The nationality authorities outside the integrated eastern regions, in which proceedings for the determination of German nationality are still pending on the basis of the rounding test of 25 November 1939, have to continue the proceedings to the branch of the German People's List in accordance with paragraph 22. If the proceedings have already been completed by issuing a national identity card, the proceedings shall also be admitted to them after the competent branch has been established; the reports I have issued in cases of appeal concerning matters of ethnicity and which must be decided after this circular has been issued have become obsolete. In these cases, the permanent district offices of the German People's List, to which the procedures may have to be submitted, shall carry out the verification in accordance with the provisions of this circular. (24) Whereas the decisions taken so far in matters of ethnicity must be brought into line with the provisions of this circular; whereas, in particular, where this has not so far been done, it is necessary to classify the People's Germans in the individual departments of the German People' s List; These measures are to be carried out regularly by the branches of the German People's List on the basis of material 06470,