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children whose racial appearance
indicates Nordic parents, it is necessary that the children, who are in former
Polish orphanages and with Polish foster-parents, are subjected to a racial and
psychological process of selection. These children, who are considered to be
racially valuable to German Folkdom, shall be
Germanized." |
| The decree further provided, in great detail,
for the registration of the children, their racial examination by RuSHA, a
medical examination, and their subsequent handling, stating in
part: |
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"My representative at Poznan will
report all children from 6 to 12 years of age who have been considered suitable
for Germanization to the inspector of the German folk schools. The inspector of
the German folk schools will accommodate these children in special folk schools
which answer the children's needs. Those children, who leave the German folk
schools with positive results, are to be lodged in rural homes of Germany
proper.
"Special attention is to be given that the expression
Polish children suitable for Germanization may not reach the public
to the detriment of the children. The children are rather to be designated as
German orphans from the regained Eastern
territories." |
On 16 February 1942 Himmler issued a decree
dealing extensively with the kidnaping of foreign children.
In part the
decree states: |
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"Politically heavily incriminated
persons will not be included in the resettlement action. Their names are also
to be submitted by the Higher SS and Police Leaders (Inspectors of the Security
Police and of the SD) to the competent State Police (Main) Office for the
purpose of transfer to a concentration camp. The wives and children of such
persons are to be resettled in Germany proper and included in the procedures
for Germanization.
"If the wife too cannot be included in the
resettlement action because she is politically badly incriminated, she too is
to be named to the competent State Police (Main) Office for the purpose of
transfer to a concentration camp. In such cases the children are to be
separated from their parents * * *. Persons to be considered politically
heavily incriminated are those who committed the most serious offenses against
Germandom (for example, participation in persecution of Germans, economic
destruction of racially pure Germans, among other things)
"The children
are to be admitted to the local German public schools and included in the
Hitler Youth. Attendance at a local school of higher education is prohibited.
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