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Copy for the Minister Office of Berlin, 5 April 1945. The Reich Minister of the Interior II RV 665/45 As 220 U 9. APR. 1945 An a) the Supreme Reich Authorities, b) the Reich Defence Commissioners. Betr.: Umquartierung Ost und West. Über die Umguartierungs Movementen im Osten und Westen errichtet ich Sie auf Stand vom 30. March 1 945, as follows: The rear limit for eviction measures in the East is currently established. from the following line: Teschen - Oderberg - Troppau - Jägerndorf - Würbental - Freiwaldau - Patschkau - Reichenbach - Schweidnitz - Bolkenhain - Hirschberg - Zittau - Bautzen - Hoyerswerder Spremberg - Kalau - Lübben, then in the Friedland area into a line l5 km this side the HKL to the Ebersvalde area, from there in a line 5 km this way further north to the Oder. Reception for Pomerania are unchanged Mecklenburg, Osthannover and Schleswig-Holstein. Reception for Mark Brandenburg is at the time South Hanover-Braunschweig. Transports from the Silesian Rau are passed through Saxony, Sudetenland and Protectorate and finally accommodated in the Gauen Württemberg, Schwaben, München-Ober-bayern and Oberdonau. In the west, refugees from the Gauen Essen, Düsseldorf and Köln-Aachen are brought to Weser-Ems and Südhannover-Braunschweig after transit through Westphalia-South and Westphalia Nord. Refugees from Moselland and Hessen-Nassau are accommodated in Kurhessen and Mainfranken. On behalf of Ehrensberger Ms d l St.M.├že-54/45