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| anything to do with female Eastern workers
and the children borne by them in Germany, I remember vividly a conversation
which I had with Dr. Tesch in August or September 1943 in Berlin. I had met Dr. Tesch, whom I knew personally, by accident and I seized the opportunity to have him convey my thanks and appreciation to Herr Sollmann for the hospitality offered to my wife in the Lebensborn Home, Steinhoering, where a short while ago she had given birth to our third child. My wife had gained an extraordinarily good impression of the personnel of the home and particularly also of the good understanding among the mothers. Dr. Tesch promised to communicate my wife's praise to Herr Sollmann and also my appreciation for the laudable activities of the Lebensborn, since it so well confirmed the work the Lebensborn had done so far. He said that there had actually been danger of a change. A decree by the Reich Security Main Office recently had provided that in special cases also Eastern workers, in other words Polish and Russian women were to give birth to their children in the Lebensborn homes. However, despite this decree Lebensborn had been able to extricate itself from such an obligation and in subsequent decrees in this field Lebensborn was no longer included. The course pursued up to now that the young German women were able to become better acquainted with each other without any external inhibitions or difficulties as would be caused by another language would thus also be maintained in the future. |
| [Signed] AUGUST MEINE |
| EXTRACT FROM THE TESTIMONY OF
DEFENSE WITNESS RADUSCH* |
| DIRECT EXAMINATION |
| * * * * * * * * * * |
| DR. SCHWARZ (Counsel for defendant
Hofmann) : Now, the prosecution has made the charge that children of aliens
were subjected to racial examinations, and that according to the result of the
examination these children were either subjected to re-Germanization or sent to
extermination camps. As a racial examiner, or in your capacity as RuS Leader,
did you ever carry out such an examination? WITNESS RADUSCH : No. At no time. Q. Well, did you have knowledge of such orders? A. No. Q. Or did you hear about such an extermination camp? |
* Complete testimony is recorded in mimeographed transcript, 12 January 1948, pp. 3465-3477.
