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| 2. THE PROGRAM | |
| a. Selections from the Evidence of the Prosecution | |
| PARTIAL
TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT L-70 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 384 |
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| EXTRACTS FROM A
SPEECH BY THE REICH LEADER SS HIMMLER AT BAD SCHACHEN ON 14 OCTOBER 1943 |
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| * * * I consider that in dealing
with members of a foreign country, especially some Slav nationality, we must
not start from German points of view and we must not endow these people with
decent German thoughts and logical conclusions of which they are not capable,
but we must take them as they really are. 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 any good blood that we can use for ourselves and give it a place in our people or * * * we destroy this blood. |
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| For us the end of the 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 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 twenty years to rebuild and spread out our villages and towns, and that we shall push the borders of our German race 500 kilometers further out to the East. | |
| EXTRACT FROM THE
TESTIMONY OF PROSECUTION WITNESS LAVITAN* |
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| DIRECT EXAMINATION | |
| MR. NEELY: Witness, would you
please state your name and your profession? WITNESS LAVITAN : Louis Lavitan ; my profession is public welfare administration. |
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* Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 2 February 1948, pp. 4759 - 4763.
