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| all correspondence and the various decrees issued outside the RuSHA office went directly to RuSHA; and by the decrees it was provided that RuSHA should play an important part in measures to be taken; for instance, it was expressly provided that RuSHA should examine those coming within the prohibitive marriage decrees. And as the evidence shows, RuSHA with determination guarded its right to make these examinations. Since both Hildebrandt and Hofmann were chiefs of RuSHA while these measures were being enacted and carried into effect, they both bear responsibility for the criminal acts committed against the populations of occupied territories. |
| FORCED EVACUATIONS AND
RESETTLEMENT OF POPULATIONS; FORCED GERMANIZATION OF ENEMY NATIONALS; SLAVE LABOR |
| Within the framework of the gigantic program
undertaken by Himmler and offices subordinated to his command, three aims were
paramount: To evacuate and resettle large areas of the conquered territories;
to Germanize masses of the population of the conquered territories; and to
utilize other masses of the population as slave labor within the Reich. These
aims, and the procedures and measures adopted to carry them out, are so
interwoven and interrelated that one can hardly be mentioned without at the
same time referring to the others. Accordingly, these specifications of the
indictment will be considered and discussed together. In the execution of the Germanization program, the measures taken in regard to these three specifications of the indictment utilized, as a basis of operation, the DVL procedure, already discussed in this judgment, or the WED procedure. In making examinations for the purpose of resettlement of so-called ethnic Germans, the RuSHA racial examiners used the DVL procedure, dividing those considered acceptable in the German People's List into four groups, as already explained. In the case of resettlement of populations, the groups were further subdivided into "A", "O", and "S" cases. The evidence establishes that "O" cases were those determined to be racially and politically reliable; "A" cases were those who were determined to be less politically reliable but still of racial value; "S" cases were those found to be of alien blood and not racially valuable. Generally, "O" cases (those politically and racially valuable) were transferred to the Incorporated Eastern Territories, it being assumed that such persons would aid in a speedier Germanization of that territory; "A" cases being less reliable were transferred to Germany proper, the idea being that these per- […sons] |
