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| SS and General of the Waffen SS and Police;
Chief of the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche
Mittelstelle, commonly known as "VoMi") of the SS. HEINZ BRUECKNER — Sturmbannfuehrer (Major) in the SS; Chief of Amt VI of VoMi. OTTO HOFMANN — Obergruppenfuehrer (Lt. General) in the SS; Chief of RuSHA, 9 July 1940-20 April 1943; later Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for Southwestern Germany. RICHARD HILDEBRANDT — Obergruppenfuehrer (Lt. General) in the SS and General of Police; Chief of RuSHA, 20 April 1943 - May 1945. FRITZ SCHWALM — Obersturmbannfuehrer (Lt. Colonel) in the SS; Chief of Staff of RuSHA and principal RuSHA representative at the Immigration Center at Lodz (Einwandererzentrale Lodz, commonly known as "EWZ"). MAX SOLLMANN — Standartenfuehrer (Colonel) in the SS; Chief of Lebensborn, e.V.* (Well of Life Society) of the SS; Chief of Main Department A of Lebensborn. GREGOR EBNER — Oberfuehrer (Senior Colonel) in the SS; Chief of the Main Health Department of Lebensborn. GUENTHER TESCH — Sturmbannfuehrer (Major) in the SS; Chief of the Main Legal Department of Lebensborn. INGE VIERMETZ — Deputy Chief of Main Department A of Lebensborn. |
| COUNT ONE — CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY |
| 1. Between September 1939 and April 1945,
all the defendants herein committed crimes against humanity as defined by
Control Council Law No. 10, in that they were principals in, accessories to,
ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, were connected with plans and
enterprises involving, and were members of organizations or groups connected
with-atrocities and offenses, including but not limited to murder,
extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, persecutions on
political, racial, and religious grounds, and other inhumane and criminal acts
against civilian populations, including German civilians and nationals of other
countries, and against prisoners of war. 2. The acts, conduct, plans and enterprises charged in paragraph 1 of this count were carried out as part of a systematic program of genocide, aimed at the destruction of foreign nations and ethnic groups, in part by murderous extermination, and in |
* For explanation of "Lebensborn" see Introduction, p. 599.
