. NMT04-T1073
Volume IV · Page 1073
| I hope that the little Christel will give you
much pleasure and meanwhile greet you with
By order |
| Heil Hitler! The Chief of the Main Department A [Signed] EDELMANN |
| 6. ARGUMENTS OF PROSECUTION
AND DEFENSE |
| a. Selections from the Prosecution's Closing Briefs |
| EXTRACTS FROM THE CLOSING
BRIEF AGAINST THE MAIN RACE AND SETTLEMENT OFFICE |
| * * * * * * * * * * |
| RuSHA was "exclusively competent for practical selection and elimination" (NO-2791, Pros. Ex. 49) and in line with this exclusive authority its agents had to screen children as to "their racial value" and to see to it that only "racially good types of children" were taken for Germanization. (See Himmler's instruction.) (L-70, Pros. Ex. 384.) |
| * * * * * * * * * * |
| Contrary to the contentions of the defendants
that they considered these children as "ethnic Germans" the documents leave no
doubt that the defendants, the leading members of RuSHA, knew that in executing
Greifelt's order they had to deal with children who not only were foreign
nationals but belonged to non-German ethnic groups as well. Several documents
originating in RuSHA speak of "Germanizing of orphans of foreign blood"
(NO-946, Pros. Ex. 385) ; "Germanization of names of foreign
orphans" (NO-950, Pros. Ex. 386) ; and "Orphans of aliens"
(NO-1600, Pros. Ex. 153). [Emphasis added.] It is significant that in the statements of RuSHA concerning racial qualities of children examined there are no statements to the effect that the examination proved those children to be of German blood. The statements of RuSHA examiners advising that those children be included into "re-Germanization procedure" speak of them only as of "desirable increase of population". (NO-4917, Pros. Ex. 702; NO-4322, Pros. Ex. 701; NO-4320, Pros. Ex. 886.) The activities of RuSHA in connection with kidnaping of children were not limited to racial selection. |
| * * * * * * * * * * |
| RuSHA was the agency entrusted with giving German sounding names to the kidnaped foreign children. (NO-950, Pros. Ex. 386.) |
| * * * * * * * * * * |
