English Translation

- 5 - 1 September 1939 actively engaged in the popular struggle for Germanism. Ner in the Polish period belonged to German political, economic, cultural or sports organizations, must be registered regularly in department 1 of the German People's List. German political organizations in the former Poland include not only the German Association, the Young German Party, the German People's Federation and the German Volksverband, but all German parties. As such organizations must therefore also be regarded as perfectly German parties who were Catholic or Marxist-minded. Likewise, the perfectly German denominational associations, regardless of whether they are Protestant or Catholic associations, count in principle. However, as an active commitment, every other conscious commitment to the German towards the Polish people must be considered apart from belonging to a German organization. Parents who have sent their children to the German school have thus openly confessed to Germanism. The same applies, for example, to those who, when performing their compulsory military service in the Polish army, have caused their German nationality to be registered in the military passport. But also the exclusive traffic in German circles, the constant use of the German language in publicity or similar behaviour are to be regarded as an active use for Germanism. (5) In Section 2 of the German People's List, the people's Germans (including the members of the population groups referred to in paragraph 6c) who did not actively support Germanism during the Polish period, however, have been proven to have preserved their Germanism. After World War II, the German authorities have repeatedly stressed the need to maintain the position of German in Poland as far as possible.