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"Naturally the opinion of the SS Leaders for Racial and Resettlement matters is the decisive one in the judgment. * * * I want to point out once more the grave responsibility which has been assigned to the SS Leaders for Race and Resettlement matters by this new order, that is, to especially further all valuable racial strains for the strengthening of our people and to accomplish a complete elimination of everything racially inferior." |
| The prosecution seeks to attach
responsibility for the taking, of infants from foreign workers on Lebensborn
and the defendants connected with that institution. In this respect, the
prosecution rests its case upon the ground that in two memoranda or decrees
issued by various persons and offices it was mentioned that children of good
blood should be placed with Lebensborn. The defense asserted emphatically that
Himmler rescinded this part of the decree and no children of foreign workers
were actually taken into Lebensborn. As to this defense, the prosecution strongly contended that the defense was absurd and untenable, stating that "Himmler's sole purpose in creating Lebensborn was to obtain `blood' for the Third Reich". We think the position of the defense is not only tenable, but correct for three reasons. 1. The prosecution introduced numerous exhibits in which it was stated that children of good racial blood would be transferred to NSV homes and those of foreign blood to foreigners' children's homes. Either these decrees are absolutely erroneous or those mentioning transfer to Lebensborn are erroneous; 2. The prosecution has failed to show that a single child of a foreign worker was ever transferred to Lebensborn; 3. Although the decrees mentioning Lebensborn were sent to a number of offices aid individuals, according to the distribution list Lebensborn was not included on the list. For these reasons we exonerate Lebensborn and the defendants connected therewith in connection with this phase of the charges lodged against the named defendants. The defendants connected with VoMi were not charged with this specific crime; and as to the defendants connected with the Staff Main Office, the evidence was insufficient to implicate them in this criminal activity. |
| PUNISHMENT FOR SEXUAL
INTERCOURSE WITH GERMANS |
| During the war hundreds of thousands of workers from foreign countries, particularly from the East, were brought into Germany as forced laborers in factories and agriculture. With |
