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and in no way involved in it, which indeed even the prosecution has not claimed.

Therefore, it would doubtless be a pure construction to try to reduce the subject "foreign children and the SS" to one common denominator and say: In this field, too, all the thoughts and actions of the SS agencies were dominated by exaggerated and overlapping ideas of blood and race, by ideas which finally degenerated to a criminal covetousness of children of foreign nationality. However, instead of seeing Himmler's ideas and notions as part of a criminal program one could put them on a scale which shows the following notations: (1) humane solicitude for children of foreign nationality, (2) a solicitous interest based on nationalistic motives in ethnic German children far from their homeland, (3) nationalistic tendencies, and finally, (4) romantic ideas about the value of German blood, which then degenerated in wild plans and actions. However, it is quite certain that the Lebensborn was never in any way involved in a criminal program. It set out upon its course guided by the most humane and natural idea which one can imagine, and remained true to this idea, which constituted its highest law and program, as long as it existed — the idea of chivalrous protection for the expectant mother and loving care for her child.  
  
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3. POLISH CHILDREN 
 
a. Selections from the Evidence of the Prosecution 
 
  TRANSLATION OF
DOCUMENT NO-3074
PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 406  
 
LETTER FROM CREUTZ TO THE REICH GOVERNOR
OF THE WARTHELAND, 12 AUGUST 1941,
CONCERNING THE GERMANIZATION
OF POLISH CHILDREN 
 
Copy 
 
I-3/4-7/14 July 1941/Dr.Ko/Mq 
 
12 August 1941 
 
Subject: Germanization of children from former Polish orphanages or from Polish families.

Reference: Your letter of 14 July 1941 — Diary No. 626/41 Ko/Au

To the Reich Governor of the Reichgau Wartheland
Deputy of the Reich Commissioner for Strengthening of Germanism
Poznan
Kaiserring 13.

There are a great number of children in former Polish orphan- […ages]

 
 
 
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