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| known as the "Staff Main Office
of RKFDV", and hereinafter referred to by that designation); the Repatriation
Office for Ethnic Germans (commonly known as VoMi, and so referred to
hereafter); the SS Race and Resettlement Main Office (common) known as RuSHA,
and hereinafter so designated); and the Well of Life Society (commonly known as
Lebensborn, and so referred to hereinafter). The organizations were under the
supervision and direction of Reich Leader SS Himmler, as Reich Commissioner for
the Strengthening of Germanism. Each organization had certain well-defined
tasks, which after 1939 were modified or expanded as the recent war progressed.
The organizations worked in close harmony and cooperation, as will later be
shown in this judgment, for one primary purpose in effecting the ideology and
program of Hitler, which may be summed up in one phrase: The two-fold objective
of weakening and eventually destroying other nations while at the same time
strengthening Germany, territorially and biologically, at the expense of
conquered nations. In the execution of this broad program, Hitler selected Himmler, the notorious leader of the SS. The decree issued by Hitler on 7 October 1939, appointing Himmler, states, in part — |
"The consequences which Versailles had on Europe have been removed. As a result, the greater German Reich is able to accept and settle within its space German people, who up to the present had to live in foreign lands, and to arrange the settlement of national groups within its spheres of interest in such a way that better dividing lines between them are attained. I commission the Reich Leader SS with the execution of this task in accordance with the following instructions "Pursuant to my directions the Reich Leader SS is called upon — |
| Himmler lost no time in promulgating measures to be applied in effectuating the Germanization program. Poland had just been overrun by the Nazis; and by a Hitler decree territories in Poland had been annexed to the Reich. These territories, in numerous decrees, were referred to as "the Incorporated Eastern Territories". The balance of Poland was known as the "Government General". |
