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 pardon Poles who have been sentenced to death (Gnadenrecht).