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satisfaction. Appropriate memoranda have already been
turned over to the District Peasants' Associations.
Below, I promulgate the individual regulations, as they
have been laid down during the conference and how they
are now to be applied accordingly:
"1. Fundamentally, farmworkers of Polish nationality no
longer have the right to complain, and thus no
complaints may be accepted any more by any official
agency.
"2. The farmworkers of Polish nationality may not leave
the localities in which they are employed, and have a
curfew from 1 October to 31 March from 2000 hours to
0600 hours, and from 1 April to 30 September from 2100
hours to 0500 hours.
"3. The use of bicycles is strictly prohibited.
Exceptions are possible for riding to the place of work
in the field if a relative of the employer or the
employer himself is present.
"4. The visit of churches, regardless of faith, is
strictly prohibited, even when there is no service in
progress. Individual spiritual care by clergymen
outside of the church is permitted.
"5. Visits to theaters, motion pictures or other
cultural entertainment are strictly prohibited for
farmworkers of Polish nationality.
"6. The visit of restaurants is strictly prohibited to
farmworkers of Polish nationality except for one
restaurant in the village, which will be selected by
the Rural Councilor's office (Landratsamt), and then
only one day per week. The day, which is determined as
the day to visit the restaurant, will also be
determined by the Landratsamt. This regulation does not
change the curfew regulation mentioned above under No. 2.
"7. Sexual intercourse with women and girls is strictly
prohibited, and where it is established, it must be
reported.
"8. Gatherings of farmworkers of Polish nationality
after work is prohibited, whether it is on other farms,
in the stables, or in the living quarters of the Poles.
"9. The use of railroads, buses or other public
conveyances by farmworkers of Polish nationality is
prohibited.
"10. Permits to leave the village may only be granted
in very exceptional cases, by the local police
authority (Mayor's office). However, in no case may it
be granted if he wants to visit a public agency on his
own, whether it is a labor
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office or the District Peasants Association or whether
he wants to change his place of employment.
"11. Arbitrary change of employment is strictly
prohibited. The farmworkers of Polish nationality have
to work daily so long as the interests of the
enterprise demands it, and as it is demanded by the
employer. There are no time limits to the working time.
"12. Every employer has the right to give corporal
punishment toward farmworkers of Polish nationality, if
instructions and good words fail. The employer may not
be held accountable in any such case by an official
agency.
"13. Farmworkers of Polish nationality should, if
possible, be removed from the community of the home and
they can be quartered in stables, etc. No remorse
whatever should restrict such action.
"14. Report to the authorities is compulsory in all
cases, when crimes have been committed by farmworkers
of Polish nationality, which are to sabotage the
enterprise or slow down work, for instance
unwillingness to work, impertinent behavior; it is
compulsory even in minor cases. An employer, who loses
his Pole who must serve a longer prison sentence
because of such a compulsory report, will receive
another Pole from the competent labor office on request
with preference.
"15. In all other cases, only the state police is still
competent. "For the employer himself, severe punishment
is contemplated if it is established that the necessary
distance from farmworkers of Polish nationality has not
been kept. The same applies to women and girls. Extra
rations are strictly prohibited. Noncompliance to the
Reich tariffs for farmworkers of Polish nationality
will be punished by the competent labor office by the
taking away of the worker." (EC-68)
The women of the conquered territories were led away against
their will to serve as domestics. Sauckel described this
program as follows:
"*** In order to relieve considerably the German
housewife, especially the mother with many children and
the extremely busy farmwoman, and in order to avoid any
further danger to their health, the Fuehrer also
charged me with procurement of 400,000 -- 500,000
selected, healthy and strong girls from the territories
of the East for Germany." (016-PS)
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Once captured, these Eastern women, by order of Sauckel,
were bound to the household to which they were assigned,
permitted at the most three hours of freedom a week, and
denied the right to return to their homes. The decree issued
by Sauckel containing instructions for housewives concerning
Eastern household workers, provides in part, as follows:
"*** There is no claim for free time. Female domestic
workers from the East may, on principle, leave the
household only to take care of domestic tasks. As a
reward for good work, however, they may be given the
opportunity to stay outside the home without work for 3
hours once a week. This leave must end with the onset
of darkness, at the latest at 20 00 hours. It is
prohibited to enter restaurants, movies, or other
theatres and similar establishments provided for German
or foreign workers. Attending church is also
prohibited. Social events may be arranged for Eastern
domestics in urban homes by the German Workers' Front,
for Eastern domestics in rural homes by the Reich Food
Administration with the German Women's League
(Deutsches Frauenwerk). Outside the home, the Eastern
domestic must always carry her work card as a personal
pass.
"10. Vacations, Return to Homes.
"Vacations are not granted as yet. The recruiting of
Eastern domestics is for an indefinite period." (3044-B-PS)
At all times the shadow of the Gestapo and the concentration
camp hovered over the enslaved workers. As with the other
major programs of the Nazi conspirators, Himmler's black-
shirted SS formations were the instruments employed for
enforcement. A secret order dated 20 February 1942, issued
by Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler to SD and security police
officers spells out the violence which was applied against
the Eastern workers. (3040-PS):
"III. Combatting violations against discipline.
"(1) According to the equal status of the manpower from
the original Soviet Russian territory with prisoners of
war, a strict discipline must be exercised in the
quarters and at the working place. Violations against
discipline, including work refusal and loafing at work,
will be fought exclusively by the secret State police.
The smaller cases will be settled by the leader of the
guard according to instruction of the State police
administration offices with measures as provided for in
the enclosure. To break acute resistance, the guards
shall be permitted to use also physical power against
the manpower. But this may be done only for a cogent
cause.
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The manpower should always be informed about the fact that
they will be treated decently when conducting themselves
with discipline and accomplishing good work.
"(2) In severe cases, that is in such cases where the
measures at the disposal of the leader of the guard do
not suffice, the State police office has to act with
its means. Accordingly, they will be treated, as a
rule, only with strict measures, that is with transfer
to a concentration camp or with special treatment.
"(3) The transfer to a concentration camp is done in
the usual manner.
"(4) In especially severe cases special treatment is to
be requested at the Reich Security Main Office, stating
personnel data and the exact history of the act.
"(5) Special treatment is hanging. It should not take
place in the immediate vicinity of the camp. A certain
number of manpower from the original Soviet Russian
territory should attend the special treatment; at that
time they are warned about the circumstances which led
to this special treatment.
"(6) Should special treatment be required within the
camp for exceptional reasons of camp discipline, this
is also to be requested."
"VI. Sexual Intercourse.
"Sexual intercourse is forbidden to the manpower of the
original Soviet Russian territory. By means of their
closely confined quarters they have no opportunity for
it. Should sexual intercourse be exercised
nevertheless -- especially among the individually
employed manpower on the farms -- the following is
directed:
"(1) For every case of sexual intercourse with German
countrymen or women, special treatment is to be
requested for male manpower from the original Soviet
Russian territory, transfer to a concentration camp for
female manpower.
"(2) When exercising sexual intercourse with other
foreign workers, the
conduct of the manpower from the original Soviet
Russian territory is
to be punished as severe violation of discipline with
transfer to a
concentration camp."
*******
"VIII. Search.
"(1) Fugitive workers from the original Soviet Russian
territory are to be announced principally in the German
search
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book (Fanndungsbuch). Furthermore, search measures are to
be decreed locally.
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"(2) When caught, the fugitive must receive special treatment***." (3040-PS)