The Reichsfuehrer SS has the obligation in accordance with my directives:
1. to bring back for final return into the Reich all German nationals and racial Germans in the foreign countries;
2. to eliminate the harmful influence of such alien parts of the population, which represent a danger to the Reich and German folk community;
3. the forming of new German settlements by resettling and in particular by settling of the returning German citizens and racial Germans from abroad.
The Reichsfuehrer SS is authorized to take all necessary general and administrative measures for the execution of this obligation.
The Reichsfuehrer SS can assign certain living areas to the parts of the population in question in order to execute the tasks given to him in Article I, No. 2.
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In the occupied former Polish territories the Administration Chief of the East [Verwaltungschef Ober-Ost] carries out the tasks assigned to the Reichsfuehrer SS according to the latter's general orders. The Verwaltungschef Ober-Ost and the subordinated chiefs of administration of the military districts are responsible for the execution. Then measures have to be adjusted to the requirements of the military leadership.
Persons who are furnished special orders in execution of this task, are not subject to military jurisdiction in that respect.
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