September 21, 1939, quoted in Mallmann, Böhler, and Matthäus, Einsatzgruppen, 146. See also Krausnick, Hitlers Einsatzgruppen, 54.
47. Minutes of departmental head meeting with Einsatzgruppe leaders under Heydrich on September 21, 1939, BArch R 58/825, 26–30; see also Krausnick, Hitlers Einsatzgruppen, 59; Wildt, Generation des Unbedingten, 457–58.
48. Minutes of departmental head meeting with Einsatzgruppe leaders under Heydrich on September 21, 1939, BArch R 58/825, 26–30.
49. Quoted in Wildt, Generation des Unbedingten, 459.
50. Quoted in Krausnick, Hitlers Einsatzgruppen, 61.
51. Minutes of departmental head meeting with Einsatzgruppe leaders under Heydrich on September 21, 1939, BArch R 58/825, 26–30.
52. Wildt, Generation des Unbedingten, 458. See also minutes of departmental head meeting with Einsatzgruppe leaders under Heydrich on September 21, 1939, BArch R 58/825, 26–30.
53. Rutherford, “Race, Space, and the Polish Question,” 72.
54. Minutes of departmental head meeting with Einsatzgruppe leaders under Heydrich on September 21, 1939, BArch R 58/825, 26–30.
55. Notes of envoy Schmidt at the Foreign Office, September 26, 1939, reprinted in Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik, ser. D, vol. 8, doc. 138, 109–12.
56. Weizsäcker’s memo on upcoming negotiations with Moscow on the same day, September 26, 1939, reprinted in Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik, ser. D, vol. 8, doc. 137, 107.
57. Kroeger, Auszug aus der alten Heimat, 51.
58. Ibid., 50.
59. Himmler did in fact have to fight for this assignment: Hitler had first assigned it to VoMi, before Himmler managed to persuade him (Koehl, RKFDV, 49).
60. Rosenberg, Politisches Tagebuch, 80.
61. Minutes of departmental head meeting with Einsatzgruppe leaders under Heydrich on September 29, 1939, BArch R 58/825, 36–37. Partially reprinted in Pätzold, Verfolgung, Vertreibung, Vernichtung, 240.
62. Hitler to the Reichstag on October 6, 1939, quoted in Verhandlungen des Reichstages, 460: 51–63. On the speech’s contemporary reception, see Wildt, “Neue Ordnung,” 130.
63. Hitler to the Reichstag on October 6, 1939, quoted in Verhandlungen des Reichstages, 460: 56.
64. Wildt, “Neue Ordnung,” 133–34.
65. Hitler to the Reichstag on October 6, 1939, quoted in Verhandlungen des Reichstages, 460: 51–63, here 56.
66. Ibid., 61.
67. Lammers to Pfundtner, September 7, 1939, Special Archive at the State Military Archives of Russia, Moscow, 720–5/2793, 1; Schenk, Hitlers Mann, 138; Epstein, Model Nazi, 124–26; Umbreit, “Auf dem Weg,” 32–34; Rutherford, Prelude, 3; Rieß, Anfänge der Vernichtung, 244.
68. Umbreit, “Auf dem Weg,” 11.
69. Ibid., 36.
70. Hitler to the Reichstag on October 6, 1939, quoted in Verhandlungen des Reichstages, 460: 62. See also memo for State Secretary Pfundtner, October 7, 1939, BArch R 1501/5401, 41.
71. Goebbels’s diary entry for October 13, 1939, quoted in Alberti, Verfolgung und Vernichtung, 46.
72. Unsigned memo from Reich Interior Ministry on “responsibilities of the civil administration in the Polish territories,” October 2, 1939, BArch R 1501/5401, 24–29.
73. Ibid.
74. Madajczyk, Okkupationspolitik Nazideutschlands, 548–52 and 564–73; Majer, Fremdvölkische, 395–404; on the Main Trustee Office for the East, see especially Rosenkötter, Treuhandpolitik, 81–88.
75. Umbreit, “Auf dem Weg,” 39.
76. December 1, 1961, discussion between Dr. Hopf (of the German Federal Archives) and Ministerial Director Dr. Georg Hubrich, former head of the Reich Interior Ministry’s Subdepartment I East, German Federal Archives, Bayreuth Branch, Ost-Dok. 13/157, 2–19, on questions about territories annexed during the war. It was apparently in spring 1935, at Stuckart’s prompting, that Hubrich was brought into the Reich Interior Ministry, where he advanced in just a year to become group leader for the subject area of citizenship and race. Starting April 1, 1941, he became head of Subdepartment I East and acting head of Subdepartment I Sta R, Citizenship and Race, see Jasch, “Preußisches Kultusministerium.”
77. Report from Wilhelm Keppler, a state secretary at the Foreign Office, quoted in Volkmann, “Zwischen Ideologie und Pragmatismus,” 423. On the economic importance of this region, see Röhr, “Zur Rolle der Schwerindustrie,” 10; Röhr, “Zur Wirtschaftspolitik,” 223–24; Schwaneberg, “Economic Exploitation,” 87–89; Kaczmarek, “Zwischen Altreich und Besatzungsgebiet,” 348–49.
78. With its purpose achieved, the department was disbanded soon thereafter, see Haar, Historiker im Nationalsozialismus, 324.
79. Umbreit, “Auf dem Weg,” 33; also Schenk, Hitlers Mann, 138.
80. Haar, Historiker im Nationalsozialismus, 328.
81. Vollert, “Proposal for the territorial border of West Prussia,” undated (probably October 6, 1939), BArch R 1501/5401, 31–40.
82. On Schieder, see Aly, “Daß uns Blut zu Gold.”
83. Aubin to Brackmann, September 18, 1939, BArch R 153/291, unpaged. See also Burleigh, Germany Turns Eastwards, 147.
84. Ebbinghaus and Roth, “Vorläufer des Generalplans Ost”; Haar, Historiker im Nationalsozialismus, 330–32; Burleigh, Germany Turns Eastwards, 147–48.
85. Pappritz to Aubin, October 4, 1939, quoted in Ebbinghaus and Roth, “Vorläufer des Generalplans Ost,” 69.
86. This is also why Ingo Haar is mistaken in believing that Schieder’s planning scenario, because it envisaged large-scale deportations of certain local population segments and their replacement by ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe, “did not stand in the tradition of the Prussia’s Poland policy” (Haar, Historiker im Nationalsozialismus, 332). See also Ebbinghaus and Roth, “Vorläufer des Generalplans Ost,” 76.
87. Schieder position paper, undated (probably October 7, 1939), BArch R 153/291, unpaged (emphasis in original). On the October 7 dating, see Ebbinghaus and Roth, “Vorläufer des Generalplans Ost,” 70.
88. Note on message to Aubin drafted on October 7, 1939, quoted in Ebbinghaus and Roth, “Vorläufer des Generalplans Ost,” 92.
89. Hitler’s decree on the subdivision and administration of the eastern territories, October 8, 1939, reprinted in Pospieszalski, Hitlerowskie “prawo” okupacyjne, 84–88. In line with the earlier Prussian names, the two provinces were initially called West Prussia and Posen; only later were they renamed Danzig–West Prussia and the Wartheland, see Reichsgesetzblatt Teil I (1940), 251.
