As with enforcing racial policy toward Jews, the Gestapo was heavily reliant on voluntary denunciations from the population at large to enforce policies of apartheid on Polish and other foreign laborers working inside Germany. These data, compiled from a sampling of Gestapo files from the Palatinate, Lower Franconia, and Rhine-Ruhr, reveal almost identical patterns of denunciation: in almost all three regions, voluntary denunciations were the largest single source of information for the Gestapo on 'friendly relations' (including sexual) between "Aryans" and Polish workers. Noteworthy here is the absense of any direct observation by the Gestapo itself.

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Source: Robert Gellately, Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 156,161, 167.

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