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Documentation of Der Oberpräsident der Provinz Oberschesien (Senior President of the District of Upper Silesia) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1943

Documentation of Der Oberpräsident der Provinz Oberschesien (President of the District of Upper Silesia) from the Osoby Archive in Moscow, 1939-1943 In the collection there is a file which contains laws and regulations regarding the strengthening of Deutschtum ("Germanness") and differentiating between Aryans and Poles, including preparation of the deutsche Volksliste [that categorized Poles according to the measure of their relativity to the Aryan race and the possibilities of Deutschfaehigkeit, making them over as Germans]; there is also a file dealing with the authority of the Oberpräsident der Provinz to...

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German