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| offices for the rural population will carry
out these investigations in cooperation with the regional offices for folkdom
questions by a certain date (1 September 1944 ?). The figures we shall arrive at even now can be seen from statistics compiled in specific districts. Thus, in 1943, 1,500 children of alien blood were born in the rural areas of the district of East-Hannover; in the district of Saxonia, 631 women of alien blood who were working in agricultural jobs gave or were going to give birth to children. In all districts the figures are on the increase. 2. Comprehensive sterilization of such men and women of alien blood in German agriculture who, on the basis of our race laws — to be applied even more strictly in these cases — have been declared inferior with regard to their physical, spiritual, and character traits. 3. A ruthless but skillful propaganda among farm workers of alien blood to the effect that neither they nor their children, produced on the soil of the German people, could expect much good; in other words, immediate separation of parents and children, eventually complete estrangement; sterilization of children afflicted with hereditary disease. In order to round out his propaganda in a practical way contraceptives should be quietly distributed (with the Reich bearing the cost). There is no harm in leaving a valve open to the natural desires of the persons of alien blood as long as this will not interfere with cutting off the flow of reproduction among these people of alien race. 4. General and strictest compliance with the principle of taking away from their mothers for good all newly-born children of female farm workers of alien blood as well as children of German women if the father is of alien race, at the latest 4 weeks after their birth, and then sending them to geographically remote homes. Annotation: It must be said that in this direction, the opinion in many districts and even in many district offices with regard to the rural population is too superficial and "complacent". For instance, a report by the District Leader Halle-Merseburg of 2 February 1944 advances a viewpoint which is impossible under race and ethnic aspects |
"With regard to the upbringing of the children of alien race, I am of the opinion that it may be handled by their mothers of foreign blood until they are 5 years old." (!) |
| There are mainly the following reasons which make it necessary to carry out in principle and generally the separation of mothers of alien blood from their children: |
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