. NMT04-T0692
Volume IV · Page 692
[concen...] tration camps, a rather dubious mercy. The "special treatment" of male offenders was extended to Czechs as well as Poles in September 1942, according to a letter by Schultz of the race office of RuSHA.
The racial examination was entirely the province of RuSHA. The Race Office decided the procedures and the RuS field leaders made frequent visits to the concentration camps in order to make these examinations. Theoretically, it was the RSHA which decided to hang the man, but the decision of the RuSHA was the really important one. In a report on re-Germanization which was sent to Hofmann in October 1942 by the race office of RuSHA, it was stated that the RSHA wanted a quicker decision as to eligibility for Germanization. This report went on to say that —
"A Reich Leader document is in preparation in conjunction with the Staff Main Office and Reich Security Main Office, according to which the consequences drawn from the establishment of the positive ancestry verdict will be carried out (inclusion in the re-Germanization procedure, obligation of marriage)." |
| The defendant Schwalm, in a letter of
December 1943 asking for free railroad tickets for RuSHA, stated that members
of RuSHA were being constantly charged with the examination of cases of
"special treatment" ordered by the RSHA. This checking, he said, must be done
immediately and in every case because the RSHA could make no decision without
having had the judgment of RuSHA. In February 1944, the RSHA issued a circular, in agreement with RuSHA, stating that ruthless measures must be taken against all severe offenses by foreign labor and that sexual intercourse with German women would be considered a severe offense. The RuS leader on the staff of the Higher SS and Police Leader for Danzig-West Prussia in September 1944 wrote to the race office of RuSHA that more severe regulations on this subject had to be issued in that district. He said — |
"If, with regard to sexual intercourse, most severe rules are not laid down, any control of the blood policy is impossible." |
| The Higher SS and Police Leaders played an important role in "special treatment" cases. The defendants Hofmann and Hildebrandt as former Higher SS and Police Leaders bear responsibility for numerous murders of Eastern workers through "special treatment". The Staff Main Office under the defendant Greifelt also participated in these atrocities. |
| MEMBERSHIP IN A CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION |
| In count three of the indictment it is charged that all of the |
