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| part by elimination and suppression of
national characteristics. The object of this program was to strengthen the
German nation and the so-called "Aryan" race at the expense of such other
nations and groups by imposing Nazi and German characteristics upon individuals
selected therefrom (such imposition being hereinafter called "Germanization"),
and by the extermination of "undesirable" racial elements. This program was
carried out in part by — a. Kidnapping the children of foreign nationals in order to select for Germanization those who were considered of "racial value"; b. Encouraging and compelling abortions on Eastern workers for the purposes of preserving their working capacity as slave labor and of weakening Eastern nations; c. Taking away, for the purpose of extermination or Germanization, infants born to Eastern workers in Germany; d. Executing, imprisoning in concentration camps, or Germanizing Eastern workers and prisoners of war who had had sexual intercourse with Germans, and imprisoning the Germans involved; e. Preventing marriages and hampering reproduction of enemy nationals; f. Evacuating enemy populations from their native lands by force and resettling so-called "ethnic Germans" (Volksdeutsche) on such lands; g. Compelling nationals of other countries to perform work in Germany, to become members of the German community, to accept German citizenship, and to join the German Armed Forces, the Waffen SS, the Reich labor service, and similar organizations; h. Plundering public and private property in Germany and in the incorporated and occupied territories, e.g., taking church property, real estate, hospitals, apartments, goods of all kinds, and even personal effects of concentration camp inmates; and i. Participating in the persecution and extermination of Jews. 3. Throughout the period covered by this indictment, all of the defendants herein were associated directly or indirectly with the Staff Main Office (Stabshauptamt) of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism (Reichskommissar fuer die Festigung des deutschen Volkstums, commonly known as the "RKFDV"), with the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, commonly known as "VoMi"), with the SS Race and Settlement Main Office (SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, commonly known as "RuSHA"), and with the Well of Life Society (Lebensborn, e.V., commonly known as Lebensborn). |
