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| TRANSLATION OF DOCUMENT NO-5311* PROSECUTION EXHIBIT 832 |
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| MEMORANDUM ON
"IMMEDIATE REICH MEASURES TO DECREASE THE DANGERS FROM INFILTRATION IN VIEW OF THE NUMEROUS BIRTHS OF ALIENS IN RURAL AREAS", 16 MAY 1944 IMMEDIATE REICH MEASURES TO DECREASE THE DANGERS FROM INFILTRATION IN VIEW OF THE NUMEROUS BIRTHS OF ALIENS IN RURAL AREAS |
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| I. Basic facts. | |
| Nowhere in the German ethnic body
is the ethnic race and racial effect of the numerous births of children of
alien race so fatal in the long run as it is in the German rural areas.
First of all, the percentage of children of alien blood in rural areas is substantially higher than among the population of alien blood (working) in industry. Thus the birth figures for illegitimate children of alien blood in the district East-Hannover are proved to be 80 percent for rural areas, but only 20 percent as far as industrial workers of alien blood are concerned. Secondly. Contact in the country, in the small villages and on the farms is developing much earlier and closer between the children of alien blood and the German country children. Then follows the process of getting used to one another, and after that again the outward assimilation. Sooner or later, the final result would be a melting of these elements of alien blood and race with the German rural population. Thirdly. A rural population of such an extensive racial mixture would, in the course of time, contaminate the entire German people with that undesirable mixture of physical, spiritual, and character traits as has developed in the country due to the infiltration of persons of alien blood, especially since the rural population always had, and still has today, a proportionately higher birth rate than the German urban population. Therefore, children of alien blood born in the rural areas, regardless of whether both parents are of alien blood or one part is of German descent, may, as a matter of principle, under no circumstances grow into the body of the German people and/or must again be eliminated from it in time. II. Emergency measures. 1. A thorough, retroactive and continuous statistics set-up must register these children of alien blood in all communities, regions, and districts of the Reich. The regional deputies of the district |
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* This unsigned document, dated 16 May 1944, was discovered in the files of VoMi.
