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| [East…] ern workers was
similar to that in the case of abortions. RuSHA's evaluation of the racial
value of the child determined the fate of the child. The fate of those
determined to be of racial value is plainly stated in a memorandum to Himmler,
suggesting the disposition of these children: |
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"* * * Polish women and Eastern
female workers should, in every case of pregnancy, be examined by the Race and
Settlement Main Office. Their children, if they are proved to be of good race,
should be handed over to the institutions of the NSV.
"If the pregnancy
of an alien female worker has been caused by a German man, normally no
procurement of abortion is necessary, but an investigation of the racial purity
of the mother and the father will be conducted by plenipotentiaries of the Race
and Settlement Main Office. The alien woman will be re-allocated to labor after
the birth. All children proved to be racially pure will be sent to the
children's institutes, which are to be established for those children who are
to be educated as Germans. The approval of the mother is only required if the
mother is a national of an independent state. Children of impure race
(schlechtrassisch) would be handed over to children assembly centers, in order
to prevent German children growing up together with foreign children, and to
make the mother available for labor allocation. Children assembly centers,
which would be managed by members of foreign nations, could be set up in almost
every village and without exception in every alien camp. * *
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| Himmler agreed to the suggestions made, but
in the case of foreign children, he considered "it proper to introduce a
pompous sounding designation for the assembly centers for foreign children."
The fate of those found not to be of racial value, and accordingly sent to
foreign children's homes, is disclosed in a report of investigation of such a
home. This report, which was made directly to Himmler, discloses
that: |
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"* * * This home was founded some
time ago for a trial period en the basis of your correspondence of 9 October
1942 with Gauleiter Eigruber. On the basis of the order you gave then SS
Oberfuehrer Langoth founded the home.
"During this visit I found that
all of the babies located in this home were undernourished. As I was told by SS
Oberfuehrer Langoth only 1/2 liter milk and 11/2 cubes of sugar per baby per
day are furnished to the home on the basis of a decision of the Land Food
Office. With this ration the babies must perish from undernourishment in a few
months. I was in- […formed] |
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