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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-1615 PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 407 |
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| CIRCULAR SIGNED BY
GREIFELT, 19 FEBRUARY 1942, CONCERNING THE GERMANIZATION OF POLISH CHILDREN |
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| The Reich Commissioner for the
Strengthening of Germanism Staff Main Office Reference Number: 1-2/4-7/5 Mar 40 - Dr.Ko/Mq. |
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| Berlin-Halensee, 19
February 1942 Kurfuerstendamm 140 |
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Personal staff Reich Leader SS |
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| Distribution | |
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| Regulation No. 67/1 | |
| Addressed according to special distribution key. | |
| Subject: Germanization of
children from Polish
families and from former Polish orphanages. |
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| There is a great number of
children staying at former Polish orphanages and with Polish foster parents,
who must be regarded as children of nordic descent, on account of their outward
appearance. Investigations have shown that all orphans who descended from
ethnic German parents were in the past systematically taken by the Poles to
Polish orphanages, as "foundlings", or to Polish foster parents. The children
were given Polish names. Documents regarding the children's descent are nowhere
available. In order to be able to regain for German folkdom those children whose racial appearance indicates nordic parents, it is necessary that the children who are in former Polish orphanages and with Polish foster parents are subjected to a racial and psychological process of selection. These children, who are considered to be racially valuable to German folkdom, shall be Germanized. The children, who are considered suitable for Germanization on the strength of the racial and psychological process of selection, will therefore, at the age of 6 to 12 years, be sent to German home schools; children belonging to the age group 2 to 6 years old will be boarded with families to be designated by the Lebensborn. In agreement with the agencies concerned I am giving the following instruction for the execution of this regulation: |
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