too, this task is one which dead with the question, how we can add to the victory of the sword the victory of the blood, of the blood of our kind. How will the organization be carried out, after the victory over the enemy, the real Germanization of the land, how will the real occupation of the new provinces from the racial point of view be carried out. I have received orders to carry out this task on October 7th, from the Fuehrer, as Reich Commissioner for Strengthening of Germanism.

"We must see to it that at least in the Provinces which belong to Germany now, the problem of a Polish minority is liquidated and eliminated, the problem must be liquidated.

"We have to see to it that now, in these days when we are strong, people who are of our blood will be brought back to us, as much as is in our power and that we see to it that none of our blood is ever lost to the outside world * * *. The manner in which this is to be achieved will be different every time. At the beginning it was necessary — and this, if you please, should not go beyond our small circle — to carry this out in a very ruthless fashion, especially in West Prussia, where the atrocities committed by the Poles were worst, and where German blood was heavily shed * * *. It is a matter of course that Germany will bring back ethnic Germans from all countries after the war, all people who are of ethnic-German good stock, I would even say, of good blood * * *."

"I would consider it right if small children of Polish families who show especially good racial characteristics were apprehended and educated by us in special children's institutions and children's homes which must not be too large. The apprehension of the children would have to be explained with endangered health * * *.

"After half a year the genealogical tree and documents of descent of those children who prove to be acceptable should be procured. After altogether one year it should be considered to give such children as foster children to childless families of good race * * *" 

"In order to be able to regain for German folkdom those