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contacted in the beginning. As a
rule both parties will be arrested.
"After being investigated as to his
nationality the party of foreign race is subject to a racial evaluation by the
competent RuS field leader; a potential suitability toward Germanization is to
be explored.
"When a case of sexual intercourse is detected, the
Amtsarzt (official physician) has to ascertain whether the participating German
woman is pregnant. It is to be stated how far the pregnancy is advanced and
whether another and what person beside the one of foreign stock in question
might have fathered the prospective prospective child (this investigation to be
made by the Youth Office). If the person of foreign stock is fit for
Germanization and if both parties are evaluated favorably under the racial
viewpoint, marriage is possible under certain conditions, however, marriage
between laborers from Serbia, or other Eastern laborers, and German girls are
not permitted for the time being. A female worker of foreign stock, caused by
the German man (in abuse of his position) to submit to sexual intercourse, will
be taken into protective custody for a brief period, thereafter assigned to a
different job. In other cases the female worker of foreign race is to be
confined to a concentration camp for women. Pregnant women are to be sent to a
concentration camp only after they have given birth and stilled the
baby." |
| In 1943 Hildebrandt succeeded Hofmann as
chief of RuSHA. The measures with reference to punishment of foreigners for
sexual intercourse continued thereafter. During the time Hildebrandt was chief,
two copies of Kaltenbrunner's decree of 10 February 1944 were sent to RuSHA.
This decree, marked "secret", was a ten-page detailed order covering the
procedure in cases Involving foreigners who had had sexual intercourse with
Germans. With reference to "special treatment" the decree
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"Especially acts of sabotage,
crimes of violence, and immoral crimes as well as sexual intercourse with
German women and girls are to be considered as severe offenses.
"On
principle, the cases will not be handed over to Justice. Only those cases are
to be transmitted there, where a court sentence appears to be desirable for
reasons of political disposition of the public and where it has been
ascertained by previous sounding that the court will pass the death sentence *
* *.
"Carrying out the special treatment shall serve especially
intimidate the foreign workers inside the Reich, this, however, will only be
completely achieved if the expiation follows |
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