What you say agrees with what my Great Grandad said anyway. He entered back into Germany (Poland) around late 1940’s (a year after the polish army capitulated, he was a Kapral), after escaping and walking back from a soviet camp, caught at the border, and then processed at Treblinka (interestingly, before it became a ‘death camp’), who’s authorities determined that he was an ethnic german. According to documents I have, he was conscripted at the same period when the list was introduced (May 1941). An official (presumably back at Myslowice) told him ‘you must join the German Army’, based on the fact his father had been a lower officer in the imperial army. He apparently was willing to go on the train to the work camp with the Poles but his strict mother dragged him off. His older brother was more resistant (and this showed in his communist sympathies after the war), and scolded him saying something like ‘how can you join the enemy which has invaded our country?’ and so went to the camp for a period, before later being entered into the Army. It was said they spoke German in their childhood and had to learn polish after the Polish state took over the area after 1921, and after the German state took over, they limited polish speaking to only inside the home.
What category do you think he was put into?
Has there been any updates on information available about the list itself?
