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grounds, and other inhumane and
criminal acts against civilian populations, including German civilians and
nationals of other countries, and against prisoners of war."
Count one
further alleges that these |
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"Acts, conduct, plans and
enterprises * * * were carried out as part of a systematic program of genocide,
aimed at the destruction of foreign nations and ethnic groups, in part by
elimination and suppression of national characteristics. The object of this
program was to strengthen the German nation and the so-called `Aryan' race at
the expense of such other nations and groups by imposing Nazi and German
characteristics upon individuals selected therefrom * * * and by the
extermination of undesirable racial elements. This program was
carried out in part by |
(a) Kidnaping children.
(b) Abortions. (c) Taking away infants of
Eastern workers.
(d) Punishment for sexual intercourse
with Germans. (e) Preventing
marriages and
hampering
reproduction of enemy nationals.
(f) Evacuating enemy populations from
their native lands by force. (g) Forced
Germanization of enemy nationals. (h)
Plunder.. (i) Slave labor (j) Persecution of
Jews." |
| Count two, which charges the defendants with
war crimes, alleges that all the defendants between September 1939 and April
1945 |
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"Were principals in, accessories
to, ordered, abetted, took a consenting part in, were connected with plans and
enterprises involving, and were members of organizations or groups connected
with atrocities and offenses against persons and property constituting
violations of the laws or customs of war, including but not limited to plunder
of public property, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation,
imprisonment, torture, and ill treatment of and other inhumane acts against
thousands of persons. These crimes embraced, but were not limited to `the ten
specifications made in count one,' and were committed against prisoners of war
and civilian populations of countries and territories under the belligerent
occupation of, or otherwise controlled by, Germany." |
| The fourteen defendants in this case were,
in various capacities, connected with four organizations, namely, Reich
Commissioner for Strengthening of Germanism, Staff Main Office (commonly
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