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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 —
 
"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 —
 
"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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