. NMT04-T0994
Volume IV · Page 994
| [orphan…] ages who on account of their
racial characteristics must be considered to be children of Nordic parents.
These children are to be returned to Germandom and therefore must be subjected
to a racial and psychological selection procedure. Children found to be
biologically valuable for Germandom are to be Germanized. Therefore the Reich Governor (Gau self-administration) assembled some time ago for the time being about 300 children from former Polish orphanages in a camp in the Warthegau. According to information received from the competent official of the Reich Ministry of the Interior these children are supposed to have already been subjected to that examination procedure. The Reich Leader SS ordered, according to your letter of 14 July 1941, on the occasion of his last inspection tour in the Warthegau, to educate children of Polish families who show especially good racial qualifications in children's homes with the aim to Germanize them later. For the time being 2 to 3 children's homes are to be set up in the Warthegau. I presume that this order of the Reich Leader SS refers to children of good racial qualities in the Warthegau who are in Polish orphanages. In case this order of the Reich Leader SS should also refer to children with good racial qualities whose Polish. parents are still alive, I wish already 'now to mention the great difficulties which would result from this action. Therefore I request you to state your opinion on this subject. At the same time I ask you to intervene on my behalf in the action of the Reich Governor (Gau self-administration) by referring to the 300 children from former Polish orphanages assembled by the Reich Governor (Gau self-administration) in the Warthegau. I beg to examine especially, whether the racial and psychological selection procedure has exclusively been carried out by the SS Race and Settlement Main Office or its branch department Lodz. In case this examination procedure was carried out by another office than the one mentioned by me, I beg you to take over these matters immediately together with the branch department of the SS Race and Settlement Main Office in Lodz. Furthermore I would appreciate information as to how many children are in former Polish orphanages and how many of them would probably be suitable for Germanization. Your earliest reaction to above problem is greatly appreciated. By order |
| [Signed CREUTZ SS Colonel |
