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| foreigners as slave labor in the
Reich; and the kidnaping of alien children. The defendant Lorenz was chief of VoMi; and the defendant Brueckner was head of Amt VI — Safeguarding of Germanization of the Reich. As to RuSHA, the ordinance provided: |
"The RuSHA is an advisory and executive office for all questions of racial selection. It has to handle the examination of the racial Germans who are to be resettled in Germany as well as the examination of the settlers in the East coming from Germany. The RuSHA also has to carry out the racial selection of the groups of foreign nationals with regard to the fitness for Germanization of single families and persons and the racial examination for marriages with foreign nationals." |
| RuSHA, which existed long prior to the war,
was originally concerned primarily with checking on candidates for admission to
the SS, as well as marriage applications of SS members, the purpose of these
functions being to safeguard the SS against alien blood and the making of the
SS into a Nazi aristocracy. But with the advent of the war, the original aims
of RuSHA were largely abandoned; and entrusted to that organization was the
task of screening millions of people in carrying out the Germanization program.
RuSHA conducted, through racial examiners, racial examinations in connection
with Germanization, the transfer and expulsion of populations, abortions, slave
labor, persecution of Jews and Poles, punishment for sexual intercourse between
Germans and non-Germans, and the kidnaping of foreign children. The racial
examination determined the treatment to be accorded the person to be examined.
The defendant Hofmann was chief of RuSHA from July 1940 to April 1943. When Hofmann left that office in 1943, the defendant Hildebrandt took over and continued as chief until the end of the war. In connection with the re-Germanization of Poles, a field office was set up in 1940 in the incorporated territories of Poland with the defendant Schwalm in charge. He became chief of the branch once at Lodz in January 1941 and remained in that capacity until September 1941. Also, during this period, he was chief of the RuSHA agencies in the EWZ. After a term of military service, Schwalm became staff leader of the RuSHA, serving in that capacity from 1 March 1943 until February 1945. The defendant Huebner was RuSHA field leader in the Warthegau) with headquarters in Poznan, and was chief of the resettlement staff Poznan as well as labor staffs. The Lebensborn society existed long prior to the outbreak of |
