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NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNAL
Volume V · Page 108

[mem…] bers were being transported. Girls of 15 years of age were shipped and there were quite a number of 18 and 19 year old girls.

The participation of VoMi in the kidnaping of foreign children is clearly established by a number of exhibits from various officials of VoMi concerning the disposition of relatives of Slovene:; who had been executed. Typical of these memorandums is the following from the VoMi office in Berlin to the VoMi office in Bayreuth: "Subject: Relatives of the bandits executed in Lower Styria — resettler's child, Albin Wipotnik, born 26 June 1937, at present in Camp Kastl near Bamberg. Released to family Zozej at Geislingen." This letter states:

"In conclusion of the above matter, I wish to notify you, that the resettler's child Albin Wipotnik may be released.

"I request that you state the above file number on the release certificate, which is to be forwarded to this office, and that you make a full report to me, since I have to contact the Lebensborn yet."

Knowledge on the part of both Lorenz and Brueckner, and their participation in kidnaping activities, is established by a teletype message signed by the defendant Brueckner in which he urgently requested information as to the number of children separated from their parents. He said:

"Regarding separation from their parents of children whose ethnic characteristics are in jeopardy, the decision of the Reich Leader SS was announced by the letter from this office dated 28 August 1942 and it was ordered that lists of such children and orphans are to be submitted to this office for forwarding to the Reich Leader SS. Despite a reminder, no report has been made. As the Reich Leader SS repeatedly demanded the report from SS Obergruppenfuehrer Lorenz, I expect at once information by teletype as to when lists will arrive here."

Many children were concentrated in VoMi camps outside of Germany, separated from their parents in many instances, and usually they were finally transferred to VoMi camps in Germany. These children, who unquestionably had been forcibly taken from their parents, were subjected to racial examinations in VoMi camps, and then disposed of according to racial evaluations. The evidence indisputably establishes that these incidents occurred particularly in regard to Yugoslav children and also in Czechoslovakia. It is quite clear that both Lorenz and Brueckner are inculpated in crimes connected with the kidnaping of foreign children.

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