. NMT04-T1101
Volume IV · Page 1101
| To: the Youth Offices and their supervisory
authorities Regional [Landes] (Gau) Youth Offices, Health Offices and their supervisory authorities, Welfare Associations and their supervisory authorities Subject: Illegitimate children of foreign female workers. |
| I |
| Foreign female workers who come to the
greater German Reich for employment in war-economy work are no longer to be
transferred back to their home country in case of pregnancy. "Foreign Children
Care Centers" will be established in the billets for foreigners to care for
their children. The costs will be a matter for special regulation. The
establishment of the foreign children care centers and the expenses connected
therewith will be no concern of the communities, they will be supervised by
the Reich Food Estate or by the German Labor Front. The Youth Offices are
authorized to supervise these centers. The illegitimate children of the above-mentioned foreign female workers whose progenitors belong to the German racial group or to Danish, Flemish Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, or Walloon nationality and who can be regarded as valuable, shall not be sent to the Foreign Children Care Centers but shall be educated as German children. Relevant detailed instructions have. already been issued to the police and to the Plenipotentiary for Mobilization of Labor. |
| II |
| I herewith decide as follows — in
agreement with the Reich Minister of Justice to the extent necessary 1. The enterprises report to the Youth Offices through the labor office any illegitimate pregnancies of foreign female workers. The Youth Office thereupon starts investigations as to the progenitor. If the progenitor is of German or kindred blood the Youth Office reports the case to the Higher SS and Police Leader who will give instructions for racial screening. The Youth Office also reports to the Higher SS and Police Leader with a relevant explanation of the facts in such cases where it assumes that according to the prevailing circumstances the progenitor is of German or kindred blood. If the pregnant woman refuses to disclose the name of the father, the Youth Office can order an interrogation through the competent State Police Office. 2. a. The medical, eugenic, and racial examination is carried out by the physicians of the health offices. The SS leader in charge of Race and Settlement, as deputy of the competent Higher SS and Police Leader and in his capacity as delegate for the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism, will at the |
