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Main Office (Repatriation Office
for Ethnic Germans) to carry out this program. In pursuance of this commission
the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans registered the above mentioned group
of people already. The welfare service is provided through our ethno-political
agencies. The racial examination of ethnic Germans takes place in pursuance of
the directives of the Reich Leader SS through the SS Race and Settlement Main
Office.
"On this occasion it may be further pointed out that in the
course of the discussion which took place some time ago in the Reich Ministry
of the Interior, concerning the German People's List procedure, it was decided
that the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans will have competence to report
ethnic Germans from the Reich Commissariat of the Ukraine to the appropriate
People's List Offices." |
| As previously stated, Lorenz jealously
guarded his field of competency, which often led to disputes with those he
thought were encroaching upon his duties. He even complained to Greifelt with
reference to a jurisdictional dispute concerning labor allocation and the
handling of resettlers; and he suggested to Greifelt that if Greifelt's office
would desist from certain functions and leave them to his agency, he could
bring in laborers to Germany by the tens of thousands. The text of this
complaint reads |
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"I am, of course, quite prepared to
let your office in the future solely handle the labor allocation for the supply
industries of the Luftwaffe, if you attach any importance to that matter; in
that case, however, I wish to ask you even now to let my office complete the
pending allocation operations.
"Yet apart from this, my dear Greifelt,
there seems to me that something is wrong with the entire set-up of the labor
allocation and I would ask you to give this matter some thought.
"Practically, the set-up is like this — the actual labor
allocation, that is, the selection of the resettlers, the screening of the
resettlers, the formation and execution of the transports, is handled by my
camps, whereas your deputies tell my camp offices where the shipments are to
go, or they negotiate in WY camps with the companies concerned. This situation
applies particularly to Lodz, and in this connection I may add the following
remark: Your 5 deputies in Lodz were able to complete the allocation of only
500-600 resettlers within roughly months, or to discharge them in order to join
relatives. That is an output which certainly cannot have absorbed all of their
time.
"The procedure in Germany proper is to report the "B" cases by
name to the competent Higher SS and Police Leaders and to place them in camps
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