[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] "Deutsche Volksliste"

[GuentherO at aol.com]

Hi Lonnie,
the "Reichsminister des Innern" (Department of the Interior) proclaimed on 
13.03.1941 the "Deutsche Volksliste".
The Nazis wanted to save "german blood". Every german had to be saved, so his 
blood didn`t choose to the polish race.
In the areas in the east the Nazis intended to register every german with the 
"Volksliste", so they could give them the german naturalization in an easy 
way.
There were some suppositions:
1. Confession to the german nationhood
2. Derivation
3. Qualification of race
There were detailed explanations.
Not only one of these suppositions but the whole personality had to be 
prooved.

The "Deutsche Volksliste" was classified in 4 parts:
Part 1: Everyone who fighted for the german nationhood in several 
organisations
Part 2: Everyone who didn`t fighted but resisted the polish nationhood
Part 3: Everyone who got relations to the polish nationhood but could 
resozialized by the germans in an easy way
Part 4: Everyone who was in political polish organisations. If they didn`t 
want to register in the "Deutsche Volksliste", they didn`t had to but their 
children would.
There were detailed explanations.

It concerned people who had owned the polish naturalization on 26.Oktober 
1939 or its of Danzig on 01.September 1939.

I hope this would help.

Oliver Guenther
Berlin, Germany