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admonition, the plant leader must educate these people to the German order and
cleanliness. 8. The plant leader is required to make a reasonable effort to procure the necessary installations in the apartments. This will not be his least important means of securing satisfied workers through many years. 9. Great importance must be attached to the accomplishment of a normal work output. In this connection, it must be considered that the persons suitable for re-Germanization must first get used to the German working speed and working method. 10. All conversation must be carried on in the German language if possible. The plant leader is required to assist his workers as much as possible in their relations with authorities, since the persons suitable for Germanization in many cases are not sufficiently conversant with the German language. 11. The children of these families suitable for re-Germanization must learn to speak, to read, to write, and to reckon in German, and, through association with German children, learn to know the German way of living, thereby growing into the German people. |
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| TRANSLATION OF SCHWALM DOCUMENT 143 SCHWALM DEFENSE EXHIBIT 143 |
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| EXTRACT FROM
"ALLOCATION OF MANPOWER": ORDINANCES AND DIRECTIVES CONCERNING THE ALLOCATION TO GERMANY OF PERSONS ELIGIBLE FOR GERMANIZATION |
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| Published by Main Department I of
the Reich Commissariat for the Strengthening of Germanism The Reich Leader SS Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism. |
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| Berlin, 31 July 1940 | |
| 0/42a/23 May 1940 Dr B./Boe.
To the Higher SS and Police Leaders as Delegates of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism. Allocation in Germany proper, of Polish families suitable for Germanization I. In order to create room for those Germans from Volhynia who follow the various trades, families not employed in agriculture will now also be evacuated from the Warthegau. These families will also be subject to racial screening and are to be resettled if found to be suitable for Germanization in Germany proper in the same way as agricultural laborers. I regret that, for the time being, no detailed information can be given as to which trades and professions will be concerned. But members of the |
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