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NUERNBERG MILITARY TRIBUNAL
Volume V · Page 123

[es…] pecially large payments, but that the money become part of a general fund from which the necessary sums might then be paid out. In cases where the paternity cannot be established, all potential fathers will be equally liable to payment. This measure is not likely to increase the pleasure of having an illegitimate child; all surplus money might be turned over to German youth welfare. * * *"

Even further and more far-reaching measures were thought necessary as is clearly shown by an exhaustive file note, initialed by the defendant Brueckner in his own handwriting, as well as a "strictly confidential" memorandum to Brueckner. Both memorandums are in essence the same, dealing with the same subject. The file note dealt with the subject, "Immediate Reich measures to decrease the dangers from infiltration in view of the numerous births of alien races in rural areas." After discussing the high percentage of births to alien women working on farms in Germany, the file note, with reference to emergency measures, mentioned the following:

"Comprehensive sterilization of such men and women of alien blood in German agriculture who, on the basis of our race laws — to be applied even more strictly in these cases — have been declared inferior with regard to their physical, spiritual and character traits.

"A ruthless but skillful propaganda among farm workers of alien blood, to the effect that neither they nor their children, produced on the soil of the German people, could expect much good, in other words immediate separation between parents and children, eventually complete estrangement; sterilization of children afflicted with hereditary disease. * * *"

"A quiet distribution of contraceptives among farm workers of alien blood.

"General and strictest compliance with the principle of taking away for good from their mothers all new born children of female farm workers of alien blood as well as children of German women if the father is of alien race, at the latest 4 weeks after their birth, and then sending them to geographically remote homes."

According to the report these measures were considered to be necessary because "to leave the children with the mother of alien blood for a prolonged period would mean a continued and increased bother to the German farm wife; and even the German housewife and members of her family" might become attached to the child. Also "it must be constantly on the mind of the male farm worker of alien blood that to give birth to a child in Germany would mean to lose it at the same time."

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