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| To the Chief of the Staff Main Office of the
Reich Leader SS as Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism SS Major General [SS Gruppenfuehrer] and Major General of the Police Ulrich Greifelt, Berlin-Halensee, Kurfuerstendamm 140 Dear Party Comrade Greifelt: The settlement opportunities in Upper Silesia for the occupational groups which form the main part of the various ethnic groups assigned to us are extremely limited or rather almost entirely exhausted. However, after the completion of the final procedure, a great number of ethnic-German repatriates are still available for resettlement, concerning them I would propose the following: 1. O-cases,* at present in camps in Upper Silesia and who are still to be resettled in Upper Silesia: 517 households with 1,809 persons. 2. Persons refusing to be resettled. There are 86 households concerned which are concentrated in camp Zater and which, despite repeated and intensive orientation, reject their settlement with the motive that they wish to return under all circumstances to Romania. According to previous correspondence with the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans and the Staff Main Office, Berlin, it has been agreed to send the ring leaders of this group to a concentration camp and to deny all settlers in camp Zater the eligibility for settlement in the East. The necessary steps were initiated at the Immigration Center Lodz. I request that you take care of the transfer to the concentration camp as well as of the early shipment to a camp in Germany proper. 3. On account of the change-over from A to O-Cases, my division settlement has on hand nearly 500 completed reclassifications for which settlement opportunities are to be made available in Upper Silesia. It is, however, entirely impossible to take over all these resettlers. Only those resettlers, whom I shall assign now to Upper Silesia, will get an opportunity for settlement. I request that the balance be assigned to the settlement project Lublin. The Chief of my division settlement has orders to turn over personally the list to your chief of office I, SS Major [SS Sturmbannfuehrer] Dr. Stier. 4. As we have learned from the Immigration Center (EWZ], we have to expect further changes, 600-800 households, reclassified from A to O-cases and which cannot be absorbed in Upper Silesia, either. I, therefore, request also to assign these latest |
* For an explanation of the terms "O-Cases" and "A-Cases", see the opening statement of the prosecution, pp. 622 to 694.
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