Text: English     International Military Tribunal "Blue Series," Vol. 3, p. 585
		14 Dec. 45 "Obviously in such a mixture of peoples there will always be some racially good types. Therefore I think that it is our duty to take their children with us, to remove them from their environment, if necessary, by robbing or stealing them. Either we win over the good blood that we can use for ourselves and give it a place in our people or . . . we destroy that blood." Continuing the German text on Page 30, lines 7 to 16, which is a continuation of the English text, I believe, Your Honor — Himmler stated and I quote: "For us the end of this war will mean an open road to the East, the creation of the Germanic Reich in this way or that . . . the fetching home of 30 million human beings of our blood, so that still during our lifetime we shall be a people of 120 million Germanic souls. That means that we shall be the sole and decisive power in Europe. That means that we shall then be able to tackle the peace, during which we shall be willing for the first 20 years to rebuild and spread out our villages and towns, and that we shall push the borders of our German race 500 kilometers farther to the East." In furtherance of the unlawful plans disclosed by the last four exhibits, which have been offered in evidence, the conspirators contrived a racial register in the incorporated area of Poland. The racial register was, in effect, an elaborate classification of persons deemed to be of German blood, and contained provisions setting forth some of the rights, privileges, and duties of the persons in each classification. Persons were classified into four groups: (1) Germans who had actively promoted the Nazi cause; (2) Germans who had been more or less passive in the Nazi struggle, but had retained their German nationality; (3) Persons of German extraction who, although previously connected with the Polish nation, were willing to submit to Germanization; (4) Persons of German descent, who had been "politically absorbed by the Polish nation," and who would be resistant to Germanization. The racial register was inaugurated under a decree of 12 September 1940 issued by Himmler as Reich Commissioner for the consolidation of German nationhood, and this is contained in Document Number 2916-PS, previously introduced in evidence. That is Exhibit Number USA-307. I quote from Page 4 of the English text, lines 14 to 46. In the German text these extracts appear at Page 92, lines 29 to the end of the page, and lines 1 to 9 of Page 93. 1 quote: 585
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