. NMT05-T0107
Volume V · Page 107
| On 12 February 1942 Hofmann, in a memorandum concerning actions to be taken against foreigners who made difficulties, said: |
"At another occasion, SS Gruppenfuehrer Greifelt was ordered to submit a directive according to which Germanizable Poles, who make special difficulties, are to have their children taken away from them. These children are to be sent to special homes, etc. The Reich Leader expects an especially educating effect from this measure." |
| The defendant Schwalm participated in the kidnaping program as is shown by several exhibits. In January 1941, Schwalm became chief of the Staff Office at Lodz and remained in that position until September 1941. Also, in January 1941, he became chief of the RuSHA agencies in the EWZ at Lodz. He had authority over racial examiners who were constantly engaged in making examinations and evaluations of children. There is evidence in the record showing that Schwalm, while chief of the branch office at Lodz, trained racial examiners; and the evidence irrefutably shows that Schwalm, in this position, was the person who had the power to change racial decisions. At a meeting of the offices for race and settlement, attended by Schwalm, and at which time he was appointed chief of the RuSHA agencies in the EWZ at Lodz, the following illuminating decision was made: |
"Oberfuehrer Kaaserer then said that, by an order of the SS Personnel Main Office effective 1 December 1940, he was transferred as chief of the Ancestry Research Office of the Main Office SS for Race and Settlement and, therefore, as chief of the office for Race and Settlement would resign from the Central Office for Immigration on 15 January 1941. SS Sturmbannfuehrer Schwalm was appointed his successor. The racial sentence once passed on a resettler by an expert may not be altered by any office. The judgment of an expert is an expert diagnosis just like that of a physician. Only Sturmbannfuehrer Schwalm, in his capacity as chief of the Offices for Race and Settlement, has the power to alter a judgment after a thorough investigation which is best done by looking over the resettler personally. * * *" |
| Schwalm's activities and participation in kidnaping, is established beyond doubt by a number of reports signed by him concerning transports. Writing with reference to the 288th transport, 239th transport, 340th transport and 432d transport "of families and individuals to be re-Germanized," Schwalm gives a long list of persons transported, as well as the date and place of birth the individuals; and in quite a number of instances the reports show that young boys and girls unaccompanied by family mem- [...bers] |
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