Documenta Occupationis

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CZESŁAW ŁUCZAK V . DOCUMENTA L O

OCCUPATIONIS V

EXPULSIONS OF POLISH CIVILIANS IN THE TERRITORIES INCORPORATED INTO THE REICH 1939–1945 EXPULSIONS OF POLISH CIVILIANS IN THE TERRITORIES INCORPORATED INTO THE REICH 1939 – 1945

SELECTED SOURCES DOCUMENTA OCCUPATIONIS

VIII EXPULSIONS OF POLISH CIVILIANS IN THE TERRITORIES INCORPORATED INTO THE REICH 1939 – 1945

SOURCES SELECTED AND EDITED BY CZESŁAW ŁUCZAK

POZNAŃ INSTITUTE FOR WESTERN AFFAIRS 1969 Reprint of the 1969 edition

Original title: Wysiedlenia ludności polskiej na tzw. ziemiach wcielonych do Rzeszy 1939 – 1945

Editorial team: Bogumił Rudawski (editor) Monika Jania-Szczechowiak (proofreading) Anzelma Kwiatkowska (proofreading) Maciej Grochowski (graphic design)

Translation from Polish into English: Graham Crawford Thomas Anessi Krzysztof Kotkowski

PL ISSN 0860-4142 ISBN 978-83-61736-87-5

Poznań 2019

The publication was prepared thanks to co-financing by the National Programme for the Development of Humanities within the project “Documenta Occupationis Instytutu Zachodniego, t. I-VIII” (31H 13 0173 82). TABLE OF CONTENTS

New Introduction �� IX From the publisher �� XV Introduction �� XVII

Documents

1 H. Himmler’s order on the expulsion of Poles in the territories incorporated into the Reich �� 1 2 Expulsion of Poles from Poznań �� 2 3 Plans and instructions for the expulsion of Poles and Jews from the territories incorporated into the Reich �� 3 4 Official directives on drawing up lists of Poles designated for expulsion �� 6 5 SS and police instructions for conducting expulsions of Jews and Poles �� 11 6 Form obliging members of the SS-Sonderkommando to maintain the secrecy of operations for the expulsion and arrest of Poles �� 12 7 Personal searches of expelled Poles �� 13 8 Order to leave the Landkreis Mogilno within 24 hours under threat of being sent to a concentration camp �� 14 9 Nomination of SS-Gruppenführer Wilhelm Koppe as plenipotentiary for the expulsion of the Polish population and resettlement of Ger- mans in the Reichsgau Wartheland �� 15 10 Prohibition on expelled Poles bringing German currency or Polish money in excess of 100 zł into the General Government �� 16 11 Living conditions of Poles in the Poznań-Główna transit camp �� 17 12 Order for the summary execution of Poles and Jews who returned to the territories incorporated into the Reich after expulsion �� 20 13 Proposal to expel 209 families of Wielkopolska Insurgents from the Landkreis Obornik �� 21 14 Confirmation of acceptance by the mayor of Tarnobrzeg of a transport of Poles expelled from Rawicz �� 22 15 Assessment by Nazi authorities of the first expulsions of Poles and Jews from the Reichsgau Wartheland and further plans for the expulsion operation �� 22 16 Expulsion of Poles from Koźmin �� 33

V 17 Conduct of the Polish rural population during expulsions from the Landkreis Ostrowo [Ostrów Wlkp.] �� 33 18 Guidelines from the Reich authorities for expulsions of populations from the territories incorporated into the Reich �� 34 19 Expulsion of Poles from the Landkreis Hohensalza [Inowrocław] �� 38 20 Expulsion of Polish peasants from the Landkreis Schrimm [Śrem] 38 21 Ban on German soldiers intervening on behalf of expelled Poles �� 39 22 Confiscation of silver coins in the possession of expelled Poles �� 40 23 Arrest of a Pole for attempting to carry out correspondence from expelled Poles held in the Poznań-Główna transit camp �� 41 24 Transport under police escort of Poles expelled from Rawicz �� 42 25 Participation of Security Police in expelling Poles in Rawicz �� 42 26 Expulsion of Poles in the Landkries Schrimm [Śrem] in freezing conditions and without provisions �� 43 27 Guidelines on searching for Poles hiding from expulsion �� 44 28 Directives on conducting expulsion operations in the Landkreis Warthbrücken [Koło] �� 46 29 Searching for Poles fleeing expulsion in the Landkreis Lentschütz [Łęczyca] ��