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Volume IV · Page 911
| 1. The organization of the resettlement and
refugee operation will be coordinated. The leading position is held by the
Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans, in close cooperation with the other
main offices concerned and the chief of the administration staff with the
military commander in France. 2. Preference in the resettlement is to be given to persons lacking a sufficient livelihood, as well as refugees in whose case the danger of yielding to French influence appears to be existent. If settlement in Alsace or in Lorraine cannot be realized, settlement in the remainder of the Reich territory (including the East) may be effected. 3. On principle, all persons of German stock and living in France, including the northern part of the country, shall be registered by the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans for the purpose of their resettlement, and processed by the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans for the purpose of their resettlement, and processed by the Immigration Center. 4. Simultaneously with the registration and processing, the property of those persons shall be registered. If refugees or expellees of German stock from Alsace or Lorraine, who do not wish to return there, are being allocated to employment in the remainder of the Reich territory, their property remaining in Alsace or Lorraine will be registered for the purpose of property compensation. 5. Negative rulings on application for admission to these regions of refugees and expellees, issued by the chiefs of the civil administrations in Alsace and in Lorraine, are not valid for the remainder of the Reich territory. 6. The persons of Alsatian or Lorrainese origin who are to be transferred to the Reich, are, in the course of their resettlement, subject to the security-police screening procedure in their home districts. 7. The Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans is charged to arrive at an agreement with the French Government regarding the property settlement for the resettlers via the channels of the foreign office in the armistice commission. For the unoccupied part of France this agreement shall extend also to the resettlement itself. The northern part of France is to be included in this agreement. 8. The persons affected by the resettlement of the population of German stock living in France, including the northern part of the country, should be registered and processed even now as a preparatory measure to that settlement. 9. The Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans proposes to the military commander in France and the military commander in |
