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79. Juliane Wetzel, ‘Frankreich und Belgien’, in Wolfgang Benz (ed.), Dimension
des Vo
¨
lkermords. Die Zahl der ju
¨
dischen Opfer des Nationalsozialismus (Munich,
1991), 105–35, 120 ff.
80. Klarsfeld, Vichy, 412. The quota of 10 per cent decreed by Himmler was in fact
vastly exceeded in this first transport: 375 out of 1,000 people fell victim to the
selections.
81. Czech, Kalendarium .
82. Gottwaldt and Schulle, ‘Judendeportationen’, 230 ff.
83. Pohl, Lublin, 27.
84. On the deportations from the individual districts see the lists in Arad, Belzec,
383 ff.
85. On this and on what follows see Pohl, Lublin, 27 f.
86. BAB, NS 19/2655, 29 July 1941; Himmler’s letter of thanks of 13 August 1941
is also to be found here.
87.On28 July 1942 Himmler wrote to the head of the SS Main Office, Gottlob
Berger: ‘The occupied eastern territories will become free of Jews. The Fu
¨
hrer
has laid on my shoulders the task of carrying out this very weighty order. It is a
responsibility no one can relieve me of’(IfZ, NO 626).
88. Dienstkalender;Ho
¨
ss, Kommandant, 57 f. and 176 ff.
89. Christopher R.
Bro
wning, ‘A Final Hitler Decision for the Final Solution? The
RiegnerTelegram Reconsidered’, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 10 (1996),
3–10; Walter Laqueur and Richard Breitman, Der Mann, der das Schweigen
brach. Wie die Welt vom Holocaust erfuhr (Frankfurt a. M., 1986); Ho
¨
ss, Kom-
mandant, 78.
90. BAB, NS 19/ 1757, published in Longerich (ed.), Ermordu ng, 201. See also
Pohl,Lublin, 28.
91. See the survey by Jace Andrzej Mlynarczyk, ‘Treblinka—ein Todeslager der
“Aktion Reinhard”’, in Bogdan Musial (ed.), ‘Aktion Reinhardt’. Der Vo
¨
lker-
mord an den Juden im Generalgouvernement 1941–1944 (Osnabru
¨
ck, 2004),
257–81. On the construction see in addition Arad, Belzec, 37 ff.
92. Pohl, Ostgalizien, 215, and Lublin, 57 ff.; Sandku
¨
hler, ‘Endlo
¨
sung’, 81 ff.
93. BAB, NS 19/1765, note by the chief of staff in the office of the SSPF Cracow,
27 July 1942, published in Longerich (ed.), Ermordung, 202 ff.
Me
ntion is made
here of a ‘new order’ from Kru
¨
ger. On Himmler’s order of 18 May 1942 see
above p. 567.
94. BAB, NS 19/2462.
chapter 22
1. BAB, R 49/889, Himmler’s order of 4 June 1941.
910 endnotes
2. On the details see Stefan Karner, ‘Die Aussiedlungen der Slowene n in der
Untersteiermark. Ein Beispiel nationalsozialistischer Volkstumspo litik’, O
¨
ster-
reich in Geschichte und Literatur , 22 (1978), 154–74.
3. A collection of the relevant orders can be found in Der Menscheneinsatz.
Grundsa
¨
tze, Anordnungen und Richtlinien, ed. Hauptabteilung I des Stabshaupt-
amtes des Reichkommissars fu
¨
r die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, I. Nachtrag
(Berlin, 1941), 44 ff.
4. On the plans since 1939 see above p p. 441 ff.
5. Dienstkalender; accompanying letter from Meyer to the July version of the
general plan (which has not been preserved), 15 July 1941, published in Czes-
ław Madajczyk (ed.), Vom Generalplan Ost zum Generalsiedlungsplan (Munich,
etc., 1994); see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 362.
6. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 363 f. The RHSA plan has not survived but there is a
detailed assessment of it from the Reich Ministry for the East: IfZ, NG 2325,
printed in Helmut Heiber, ‘Generalplan Ost’, Vierteljahrshefte fu
¨
r Zeitgeschichte,
6 (1958), 281–325,at297 ff.
7. BAB, R 49/157a, General Plan East, legal, economic, and territorial founda-
tions for the construction of the east, June 1942, and also R 49/985,
short
vers
ion of 28 May 1942, both printed in Madajczyk (ed.), Generalplan Ost, doc.
no. 21 und no. 23; see also Heinema nn, ‘Rasse’, 368 ff.
8. IfZ, NO 2255, Himmler to Greifelt, 12 June 1942; see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’,
370.
9. The documents and Greifelt’s accompanying letter of 23 December 1942 are
published in Madajczyk (ed.), Generalplan Ost, doc. no. 70 und no. 71. In the
space of the twenty years Himmler envisaged as necessary for Germanization it
was anticipated that 8 million people would be used as a ‘pool of settlers’.
10. Letter of 12 January 1943, published in Madajczyk (ed.), Generalplan Ost, doc.
no. 72.
11. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 370.
12. BAB, NS 19/4009; see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 371.
13. June–July issue, also published in Madajczyk (ed.), Generalplan Ost, doc.
no. 21.
14. BAB, R 43 II/1411; see the introduction to the Dienstkalender, 81 f.
(with
incorre
ct signature).
15. Further detail on the ‘racial inventory’, which was disguised as an examination
for tubercu losis, is contained in Heydrich’s final report of 18 May 1942,
published in Deutsche Politik im ‘Protektorat’, 264 ff. , quotation p. 272. On racial
examination in the Protectorate see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 158 ff.
16. The person in question was Ferdinand Fischer; see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 151.
17. BAB, R 2/11402, Lammers to the Reich authorities, 14 November 1941.In
fact Himmler made HSSPF Frank his appointee in the Protectorate but
simultaneously gave instructions for Heydrich to deputize for him; see
Brandes, Tschechen, 345.
endnotes 911
18. Materials relating to the general settlement plan and sent by Griefelt to
Himmler on 23 December 1942 are published in Madajczyk (ed.), Generalplan
Ost, doc. no. 70 and no. 71.
19. Address of 4 February 1942 , published in Deutsche Politik im ‘Protektorat’, 221 ff.,
here 229.
20. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 377.
21. Dienstkalender, 20 July 1941; BAB, BDC, SS-O Globocnik, Himmler’s note of
21 July 1941.
22. In the so-called SS Team House in Lublin, later renamed the research office for
housing in the east, he had at his disposal a planning office for the restructuring
of the district and beyond that of the General Govern ment in line with
population policy. He had obtained authorization from Himmler to establish
this setup in October 1940 in Cracow (Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 382 f.); Michael
G. Esch, ‘Das SS-Mannschaftshaus in Lublin und die Forschungsstelle fu
¨
r
Ostunterku
¨
nfte’, in Go
¨
tz Aly (ed.), Modelle fu
¨
r ein deutsches Europa. O
¨
konomie
und Herrschaft im Großwirtschaftsraum (Berlin, 1992), 206 f.
23. USHMM,RG 15.027M, Reel 1, file 4, speech at a leaders’ conference in
Lublin.
24. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 384 f.
25. Ibid. 386 ff.
26.
Ibid. 398 ff.
27.
Ibid. 402.
28. Dienstkalender; Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 400 ff. Information on the visit is in BAB,
R 69/601, examiner Bender, EWZ-Kommission XV Zamosc, to Dongus, the
head of the external office for Race and Settlement in Litzmannstadt, 20 July
1942.
29. BAB, NS 19/1757.
30. On the Zamosc project see the survey in Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 403 ff., the
detailed account by Bruno Wasser, Himmlers Raumplanung im Osten. Der
Generalplan Ost in Polen 1940–1944 Basle, etc., 1993), esp. 133 ff., and also the
document collection (including numerous German sources) by Czesław Ma-
dajczyk, Zamojszczyzna—Sonderlaboratorium SS. Zbio
´
r dokumento
´
w polskich i
niemieckich z okresu okupacji hitlerowskiej, 2 vols. (Warsaw, 1977); see also IfZ,
NO 2562, general instruction no. 17C from the R FSS as Settlement Commis-
sar concerning the settlement of an initial settlement area in the General
Government, signed by Himmler, 12 November 1940.
31. Schulte, Zwangsarbeit, 262 ff.
32. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 420 f.
33. Ibid. 422 f.
On
their deployment and activities see BAB, NS 2/116, head of
RuSHA, letter of 4 October and 6 November 1941.
34. BAB, NS 19/1704 (also IfZ, NO 2703), note on the file by Berger on a
meeting in the Fu
¨
hrer headquarters on ethnic Germans; according to the
912 endnotes
Dienstkalender, 527, this meeting took place on 10 August 1942 or a few days
later.
35. BAB, NS 19/2837, Himmler to Koch; published in Madajczyk (ed.), General-
plan Ost, no. 47; see also Wendy Lower, Nazi Empire-Building and the Holocaust
in Ukraine (Chapel Hill, NC, 2005), 174.
36. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 448 ff.
37. BAB, R 70 SU 35, final report of the Crimean Kommando, 31 May 1944;see
Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 464 ff.
38. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’ , 453 ff; Lower, Empire-Building, 16 2 ff.
39. Dienstkalender, 20 October and 27 October–1 November 1942.
40. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 461 ff.
41. BAB, R 49/3537, 12 September 1941; Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 312 f. Up to this
point
Berkelma
nn had been Bu
¨
rckel’s deputy with respect to the latter’s
responsibility for settlement matters.
42. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 314 ff.
43. Dienstkalender, 512.
44. BAB, NS 19/2747, Greifelt to Himmler and Himmler’s reply of 7 September
1942, also printed in Madajczyk (ed.), Generalplan Ost, 485 ff.
45. BAB, NS 19/2747, transcript of a meeting between Himmler and Bu
¨
rckel,
signed by Himmler and undated. Brandt sent this set of minutes on 4 Septem-
ber to the RSHA, the Staff Main Office of the RKF, and other offices,
indicating that that the agreement had been reached several days before.
That was likely to have been 31 August , when Himmler met Bu
¨
rckel in
Wiesbaden (Dienstkalender).
46. BAB, R 49/ 2615, note by Stier of 3 May 1943; see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 317 ff.
and 328 f.
47. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 319.
48. Ludwig Nestler (ed.), Die faschistische Okkupationspolitik in Frankreich
(1940–1944) (Berlin, 1990), no. 103 (cites the former ZStA Potsdam, film no.
10,951).
49.
Letter
of 18 June 1942, published in Nestler (ed.), Okkupationspolitik, no. 117.
50. What is meant is the French underclass, identifiable by their use of dialect .
51.Doc.R-114,noteof7 August 1942,inIMT,vol.38,pp.330 ff.; cf. Heinemann,
‘Rasse’, 321. Contrary to Wagner’s opinion, the conference attendees took the
view that the ‘displacement’ of the ‘patois’ popu lation should be postponed to
the end of the war.
52. Dienstkalender; Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 322.
53. Doc. R-114, note on the file by Hinrich of 29 August 1942,inIMT, vol. 38,
pp. 334 ff.
54. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 322 ff.
55. Henry Picker (ed.), Hitlers Tischgespra
¨
che im Fu
¨
hrerhauptquartier (Frankfurt a. M.,
1989), 5 April 1942.
56. See Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 331 ff., and Kettenacker, Volkstumspolitik, 255 ff.
endnotes 913
57. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 331.
58. Ibid. 332; on Himmler’s guidelines for the branch office and for the repatri-
ation of those of German descent (sent with Greifelt’s letter of 15 May 1941)
see Menscheneinsatz, 39 ff.
59. BAB, R 69/650, 2 March 1942.
60. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 335 ff.; BAB, NS 47/49, transcript of the meeting on 12
March in VoMi about the granting of German nationality to the ethnic Ger-
mans registered in northern France; note on the file by the RKF, main office of
VoMi, of 21 March 1943 about the granting of citizenship to the ethnic
Germans in nor thern France; note by the head of the EWZ on the registration
and granting of citizenship to those of German descent living in northern
France (Volksdeutsche Kulturgemeinschaft Douai), 25 March 1943.
61. BAB, NS 2 /153, instruction from the head of R uSHA, undated: ‘The Reichs-
fu
¨
hrer-SS has given instructions that the process of re-Germanization should
be extended also to former Soviet Russian nationals (in other words, to eastern
workers).’ See Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 486 f., which dates this instruction to
January 1944.
62. BAB, NS 2/154, instruction from RuSHA, 29 Septembe r 1944.
63. BAB, NS 2/153,
undated decree from RuSHA
, cited from Heinemann,
‘Rasse’, 485, January 1944 .
64. BAB, R 49/73, instruction no. 51 I, 1 October 1941.The precondition was
acceptance into categories I and II.
65. BAB, NS 19/150, Himmler to the head of RSHA, RuSHA and the Staff Main
Office, 10 July 1941.
66. Ibid. report from Creutz, Staff Main Office, 20 February 1942.
67. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 482 ff. See also Mu
¨
ller’s decrees of 10 September 1942
(BAB, NS 47/31).
68. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 488 ff.
69. Ibid. 499 ff.
70. Ibid. 501 ff. The most important decrees on this matter came from the head of
RSHA, 9 June 1942 (IfZ, NO 3520) and 27 July 1943 (NO 1383), and also from
the head of RuSHA, 23 August 1943 (NO 933).
71.
BAB,
NS 19/3680, instruction no. 70 Iof23 March 1942; see Heinemann,
‘Rasse’, 476 f.
72. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 508 ff.
73. BAB, NS 2/58, instruction from Greifelt, 19 February 1942; see Heinemann,
‘Rasse’, 510 ff.
74. BAB, NS 19/2621.
75. IfZ, NO 3074, letter of 12 August 1941.
76. There are indication s in Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 510 ff.
77. His responsibilities related at first to the Volga region but were then extended
to the entire European territories of the USSR (BAB, BDC, SS-O Pflaum,
letter from Himmler, 11 July 1941 and 25 August 1941). On the placing of
914 endnotes
predominantly Russian childr en in the home see IfZ, NO 5223, testimony of
Willibald Zwirner, 19 June 1947, who as an SS doctor w as in charge of the care
of the children at various times.
78. BAB, NS 2/81, work report of the RuS leader Russia South for the period 1–15
October 1942, 25 Oct ober 1942. According to this the Staff Leader had a
number of meetings with the commanding officer of the security police about
orphan children who were to be assembled in camps by the SD; see Heine-
mann, ‘Rasse’, 514.
79. BAB, NS 19/2216, Staff Main Office to RFSS, 13 May 1942. Himmler
renewed this instruction in January 1942 in relation to Lithuanian and Estonian
children (ibid. Jeckeln to RFSS, 13 June 1942).
80. USHMM, RG 15.007 M/113, decree of 16 February 1942; see Heinemann,
‘Rasse’, 521 f.
81. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 522 f., based on statements made by the Polish historian
Czesław Madajczyk.
82. BAB, NS 19/4009.
83. Doc. PS-1919,inIMT,vol.29,
pp. 110 ff.,
quotation p. 123.
84. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 515 ff.
85. Ibid. 515.
86. IfZ, NO 681; see Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 519.
87. BAB, NS 19/1436, order from Himmler of 6 January 1943; see Gerlach, Morde,
1015 f.
88. See Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 525 ff.
89. Ibid. 528 ff.
90. BAB, NS 2/82, report from Hauptsturmfu
¨
hrer Do
¨
rho
¨
fer on the tour of
inspection in the Ukraine, 10–22 September 1942. As early as October 1942
the hea d of the SS Main Office discussed with Rosenberg the measures to be
taken in this territory (NS 19/1976, report of 22 October 1942).
91. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 529; Gerlach, Morde, 1081.
92. Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 530.
93.
On
the criteria see ibid. 50 ff., and for an illustration of a ‘racial chart’ see 64 f.
chapter 23
1. Stein, Geschichte, 181 f.; Dienstkalender, 29 December 1942 .
2.BAB,NS19/2251, Himmler to Hitler, 12 December 1941.
3. For the first six months of 1942 see, for example, Himmler’s Dienstkalender, 1
January, 17 February, 8 and 17 March, 3, 11, and 27 May 1942.
4. IfZ, NO 1087, note by Himmler of 29 June 1942; mentioned here are
Norwegian, Croati an, Spanish, and Italian legions. Cf. Stein, Geschichte, 137.
5. Stein, Geschichte, 137.
6. Ibid. 138; Thomsen, Besatzungspolitik, 96 ff.
endnotes 915
7. Stein, Geschichte, 138, instruction of 26 July 1941.
8. Ibid. instruction of 30 July 1941.
9. Ibid. 139.
10. IfZ, MA 109/263 3910, survey of th e Germanic volunteers in the Waffen-SS as
of 15 January 1942; Stein, Geschichte, 139 f.
11.NARA, T 175/ 109, Himmler’s order concerning the creation and deployment
of foreign volunteer units in countries of German and related blood of 6
November 1941.
12. Stein, Geschichte, 140 f.
13.NARA, T 175/109, note on the file by Gerlinger about a discussion with the
head of the Finnish state police, A altonen, 8 January 1942.
14. Stein, Geschichte, 143 f.
15. Ibid. 142 ff.; NARA, T 1 175, 109 , report by Berger about volunteers from
Germanic countries, 9 February 1942.
16. IfZ, NO 1787, RFSS, duties of the head of the SS Main Office in the Germanic
countries, 6 March 1942.
17. Stein, Geschichte, 145;
ord
er of 13 April 1942, published in SS en Nederland, doc.
no. 144.
18. Stein, Geschichte, 146.
19. Picker (ed.), Tischgespra
¨
che, 5 April 1942; see Stein, Geschicht e, 145.
20. Stein, Geschichte, 146.
21. Ibid. 147 . The two units were constituted as the 28th SS Volunteer Grenadier
Division ‘Wallonia’ (up to the autumn of 1944 Sturmbrigade Wallonia) and
33rd Armoured Grenadier Division ‘Charlemagne’. After the retreat from
France the French division was composed from, among others, members of
Darnand’s ‘Milice’ (see the corres pondence in PAA, Inland IIg, R 101058,
from the period September to December 1944).
22. Stein, Geschichte, 145 f.
23. BAB, NS 33/213, undated.
24. BAB, NS 2/79, letter from Hofmann to Lippert about the inspection of the
Dutch volunteers, 4 April 1941. See Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 341 f.
25. BAB, NS 2/82, order of 3 July 1942; Heinemann, ‘Rasse’, 344 ff.
In Norway
since
the spring of 1942 and the Netherlands since July 1942 so-called SS
leaders for race and settlement had been in place to monitor in particular the
racial selection of SS recruits and compliance with the Marriage Order and to
give SS ‘ideological’ guidance.
26. Stein, Geschichte, 124 f. The figures are based on estimates by the former
Waffen-SS general Felix Steiner, Die Freiwilligen. Idee und Opfergang (Go
¨
ttin-
gen, 1958), 373. In his speech in Sonthofen to Wehrmacht generals on 21 June
1944 Himmler spoke of 30,000 Germanic volunteers; Steiner’s figures refer to
the total of all those recruited during the war. They may well still be somewhat
exaggerated (BAB, NS 19/4014).
27. IfZ, Partei-Kanzlei, Anordnung A 54/42 of 12 August 1942.
916 endnotes
28. Gerhard Hirschfeld, Fremdherrschaft und Kollaboration. Die Niederlande unter
deutscher Besatzung 1940–1945 (Stuttgart, 1984), 34; according to Hirschfeld
the decree in question was that from the Reich Chancellery of 3 February 1943.
29. Thomsen, Besatzungspolitik, 138 ff.
30. Bohn, Reichskommissariat, 44 ff.
31. Kwiet, Reichskommissariat, 146 ff. See, for example, BAB, NS 19/3363, two
letters from Himmler to Seyss-Inquart, 5 March 1942, also Himmler’s letter to
Rauter, 28 March 1942.
32. This attitude of resignation is clearly seen in his report of a discussion w ith
Mussert on 8 July 1943, which he informed Rauter about (BAB, NS 19/3364).
Himmler meanwhile confined himself to the hope ‘that in this manner we shall
be able to keep Mussert on board for the time being’ (ibid.).
33. Meinoud Marinus Rost van Tonningen, Correspondentie, ed. and with an
introduction by E. Fraenkel-Verkade in cooperation with A. J. van der
Leuw, 2 vols. (’s-Gravenhage, 1967), i. 162 ff. and 912.
34.OnRost von Tonningen’s withdrawal see Hirschfeld, Fremdherrschaft, 193.
35. Warmbrunn, German Occupation, 132 f.; on Himmler’s support see his state-
ments on 12 July 1944 (BAB, R 43 II/678a).
36.
Warm
brunn, German Occupation, 135; Wagner, Belgien, 248. In total the SS was
to recruit some 20,000 volunteers in Flanders and Wallonia up to the end of the
war (Stein, Geschichte, 124 f.).
37. He made the speech in the Brussels Palais du Sport at a mass rally of Rexists in
which many representatives of the occupying power also to ok part; see Martin
Conway, Collaboration in Belgium: Le
´
on Degrelle and the Rexist Movement,
1940–1944 (New Haven and London, 1993), 173 ff.
38. BAB, NS 19/419, 20 January 1943; see Wagner, Belgien, 248.
39. Franz Petri, ‘Die geschichtliche Stellung der Germanisch-Romanischen Gren-
zlande im Westen’, in Westland. Bla
¨
tter fu
¨
r Landsc haft, Geschichte und Kultur an
Rhein, Mosel, Maas und Schelde, ed. Reich Commissar for the Occupied Dutch
Territories, 2nd series (1943), 66 – 72, extracts reprinted in Hans Derks, Deutsche
Westforschung. Ideologie und Praxis im 20. Jahrhundert (Leipzig, 2001), 270 ff. An
allusion to the continual ‘incorporation’ by the Reichsfu
¨
hrer-SS of new terri-
tories on ‘racial-biological’ grounds can be found in a further article by Petri in
the same journal, 1st series (1943), 61,
reprinted in Derks, Westforschu
ng, 267 ff.
See also Wagner, Belgien, 249; Derks, Westforschung,esp.85 ff., who engages
critically with the older research literature, in particular with Karl Ditt, ‘Die
Kulturraumforschu ng zwischen Wissenschaft und Politik. Das Beispiel Karl
Petri (1903–1993)’, Westfa
¨
lische Forschungen, 46 (1996), 73–176.
40. IfZ, NO 1469, Berger to Himmler, 27 October 1942. Hitler advocated the
creation of two Reich Gaus on Belgian soil but his aim was annexation, as is
clear from his comments at a meeting on 12 July 1944 on the ina uguration of
the civil administration in Belgium (BAB, R 43 II/678a).
endnotes 917
41. Ibid. minutes of the meeting on the inauguration of the civil administration in
Belgium of 12 July 1944.
42. See above p. 503.
43. BAB, NS 19/1846, Himmler to Berger, 29 October 1941; according to
Himmler’s Dienstkalender the meeting took place on 20 October 1941.
44. Kaiser, ‘Politik’, 549 ff.
45. Spannenberger, Volksbund, 310 ff.
46. Stein, Geschichte, 135; Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 167; Shimizu, Okkupation,
223.
47. Holm Sundhaussen, ‘Zur Geschichte der Waffen-SS in Kroatien 1941–1945’,
Su
¨
dost-Forschungen, 30 (1971), 176–96,at178.
48. PAA, Inla nd IIg 309. The agreement was confirmed by an exchange of notes of
the foreign ministers (ibid.); see Sundhaussen, ‘Geschichte’, 180 f.; Casagrande,
‘Prinz Eugen’, 197 ff.
49. Sundhaussen, ‘Geschichte’, 179.
50. BAB, R 49/13, instruction from the RFSS on the expansion of the work on
ethnic issues done by the party and the demarcation of the areas of responsibil-
ity of the SS Main Offices, 28 November 1941. According to Hess’ s instruction
of 26 Februa
ry 1941 Hi
mmler had been appointed ‘NSDAP expert responsible
for all border and ethnic matters’ (IfZ, Partei-Kanzlei, Anordnu ngen). See
Lumans, Auxiliaries, 137; Dienstkalender, introduction, 54. The VoMi and Staff
Main Office were raised in June 1941 to Main Offices (IfZ, NO 4047,
Himmler’s instruction of 11 June 1941).
51. See the Dienstkalender on the telephone conversation with Bormann, 13
November 1941.
52. Directive 2/42, published in ‘Fu
¨
hrer-Erlasse’, no. 148.
53. Dienstkalender, 6 November 1941; Sepp Janko, Weg und Ende der deutschen
Volksgruppe in Jugoslawien (Graz and Stuttgart, 1982), deals with this meeting
(p. 214); see also Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 185; Shimizu, Okkupation, 209.
54. BAB, NS 19/3519, Keitel to Himmler, 30 December 1941.
55. Shimizu, Okkupation, 148 ff.
56. Ibid. 152 ff. Under Meyszner a police command structure, with a commanding
officer of the order police, of the security police, and of the SD, was estab-
lished, that by September 1942 had taken over the police forces which up to
that point had been under the command of the military: German police units,
strengthened by ethnic Germans and also the ‘Serbian Staff Guard’.
57. Ibid. 225;Fu
¨
hrer decree of 22 January 1942 on
the
deployment of an HSSPF in
the area of the military commander for Serbia, published in ‘Fu
¨
hrer-Erlasse’, no.
139; see also BAB, NS 19/1728, Himmler to Werner Lorenz, who was
originally to support recruitment on the spot, 24 January 1942.
58. Shimizu, Okkupation, 225 ff. He wrote the first draft of the call himself. After
consultation with the Foreign Ministry the text was finally published in
February 1942 (BAB, NS 19/1728, Himmler’s draft call; text published in
918 endnotes
Shimizu, Okku pation,p.225f.; PAA, Inland IIg 323, draft by the Foreign
Ministry). Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 191 ff., compares the two versions.
59. Shimizu, Okkupation, 228 ff., Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 188 ff.; Stein,
Geschichte, 153 ff.
60. Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 196.
61. Shimizu, Okkupation, 206 ff.
62. IfZ, NO 5901, Berger to Brandt, 16 June 1942.
63. Letter of 13 July 1942 to Lorenz, cited in Sundhaussen, ‘Geschichte’, 184, after
a version commissioned by the German Protestant Church’s relief organization
at the end of 1951 (according to this the original docu ment is in NARA, T 580/
76/O345).
64. Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 196.
65. Ibid. 233.
66. PAA, Inland IIg 305, note by Luther on a speech for Ribbentrop, 18 October
1941; Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 197 f., also Sundhaussen, ‘Gesc hichte’, 181.
67. PAA, Inland IIg 309, letter from the German legation in Zagreb, 16 June 1942,
quoting from a letter from a German general in Zagreb of 21 May 19
42,
accordin
g to which ‘after a recent decision of the Wehrmacht High Command
the registration, recru itment and training of ethnic Germans capable of military
service’ was ‘to be carried out in the south-eastern area by the SS’; Casagrande,
‘Prinz Eugen’, 198, also Sundhaussen, ‘Geschichte’, 182.
68. In the Foreign Ministry the view was taken that the removal of the ethnic
Germans would give a clear signal to the Italians, who occupied part of Croatia,
that the Germans were prepared to cede the country to them. This can be read,
for example, in PAA, Inland IIg 309, note by Luther on a speech for Ribben-
trop, 12 June 1942.
69. See the material in PAA, Inland IIg 201; Sundhaussen, ‘Geschichte’, 183.See
in addition the extensive material in the files PAA, Inland IIg 305 and 309.
Berger’s instruction to implement the inspection went out on 26 August 1942
(BAB, NS 19/319, letter to Nageler).
70. PAA, Inland IIg 309 , note by SS Main Office, Amt VI, 24 July 1942,onthe
meeting on 23 July with Unde r-Secretary Luther about Hungary, Croatia, and
Slovakia: ‘As far as the outside world can tell the recruitment must seem to be
voluntary but internally it must be pursued with vigour.’ Cf. Sundhaussen,
‘Geschichte’, 184, also Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 201.On22 September the
German Newspaper in Croatia publish ed an order from the ethnic group leader
which set out the rules for the call-up of ethnic Germans to the Waffen-SS (17
to 35 years) or to the squads of the ‘German force’ or the German units of the
Croatian Home Guard.
71. PAA, Inland IIg 305, Berger and Lorenz signed a ‘regulation of the recruitment
procedure among ethnic Germans’, 29 August 1942. See Casagrande, ‘Prinz
Eugen’, 202 f.; Sundhaussen, ‘Geschichte’, 188 f.
72. Casagrande, ‘Prinz Eugen’, 201, and Sundhaussen, ‘Geschichte’, 191.
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