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worker is racially and biologically a thousand times more valuable than the people here." (1130-PS)

A letter from RSHA (Reich Security Main Office) to police chiefs, dated 5 November 1942, recites an agreement between the Reich Fuehrer SS and the Reich Minister of Justice, approved by Hitler, providing that ordinary criminal procedure was no longer to be applied to Poles and members of the Eastern populations (L-316). The agreement provided that such people, including Jews and Gypsies, should henceforth be turned over to the police. The principles applicable to a determination of the punishment of German offenders, including appraisal of the motives of the offender, were not to be applied to foreign offenders. The letter stated:

66* * the offense committed by a person of foreign extraction is not to be regarded from the view of legal retribution by way of justice, but from the point of view of preventing dangers through police action. From this it follows that the criminal procedure against persons of foreign extraction must be transferred from Justice to the Police. The preceding statements serve for personal information. There are no objections if the Gauleiter are informed in the usual form should the need arise. * * (L-316) With respect to the evacuation, deportation, and Germanization of the civilian population of the incorporated eastern territories, Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler, in his capacity as Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood, issued several decrees requiring the deportation to Germany of all Germans from such territories who had renounced their nationality during the existence of the Polish State (R-112). These decrees directed that persons affected by the provisions thereof who failed to comply were to be sent to concentration camps. After deportation to Germany, such persons were to be closely supervised by NSDAP "Counsellors" and secret police to insure their Germanization. Certain of the decrees directing such deportation are addressed, inter alia, to the "Gauleiter" and the "Reich Governors in the Reich Gaue." (R-112)

In a conference with Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Hitler emphasized that he "wished to have the Crimea cleaned out," and Rosenberg stated that he had given much consideration to renaming the towns in the Crimea in order to invest the area with a German character. (1517-PS)

In a speech to a gathering of persons intimately concerned with the Eastern problem on 20 June 1941, Reichsleiter Rosenberg

stated that the southern Russian territories and the northern Caucasus would have to provide food for the German people:

"We see absolutely no obligation on our part to feed also the Russian people with the products of that surplus territory. We know that this is a harsh necessity, bare of any feelings *" (1058-PS)

Rosenberg stated that, as a consequence of the above policy, extensive evacuations of Russians from that Area would have to take place. (1058-PS)

Gauleiter Wagner of the German-occupied Areas of Alsace prepared plans and took measures leading to the expulsion and deportation of certain groups within the Alsatian civil population. His plans called for the forcible expulsion of certain categories of so-called undesirable persons, as a means of punishment and compulsory Germanization. The Gauleiter supervised deportation measures in Alsace from July to December 1940, in the course of which 105,000 persons were either expelled or prevented from returning. A memorandum, dated 4 August 1942, of a meeting of high SS and police officials, convened to receive the reports and plans of the Gauleiter relating to the Alsatian evacuations, states that the persons deported were mainly

"Jews, Gypsies and other foreign racial elements, criminals, asocial and incurably insane persons, as well as Frenchmen and Francophiles." (R-114)

According to the memorandum, the Gauleiter stated that the Fuehrer had given him permission "to cleanse Alsace of all foreign, sick, or unreliable elements," and emphasized the political necessity of further deportation. The memorandum further records that the SS and police officials present at the above conference approved the Gauleiter's proposals for further evacuation. (R-114)

A second memorandum, dated 17 August 1942, relating to a conference called by SS-Guppenfuehrer Kaul, held at the Gauleiter office at Karlsruhe for the purpose of considering the deportation of Alsatians into Germany, states that the Gauleiter had reported to the Fuehrer with respect to the proposed evacuation of Alsatians. It is further stated that the Fuehrer verbally declared that "asocial and criminal persons" were to be expelled. The Gauleiter stated at the above conference that the action leading to such evacuation had already begun. The Gauleiter further declared that he intended to offset the loss of population as far as possible by transplantation of people from Baden, "thus creating a uniform race mixture." (R-114)

A memorandum by Reichsleiter Bormann of a conference called by Hitler at his headquarters on 16 July 1941 (L-221), states, in part, as follows with respect to the maintenance of order in the occupied Eastern areas:

"The Crimea has to be evacuated by all foreigners and to be
settled by Germans only
* We have now to face the
task of cutting up the giant cake according to our needs in
order to be able first, to dominate it, second, to administer it,
and third, to exploit it. The Russians have now ordered par-
tisan warfare behind our front. This partisan war

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has some advantage for us; it enables us to eradicate everyone who opposes us. * Our iron principle is and has to remain: we must never permit anybody but the Germans to carry arms *." (L-221) According to the above memorandum, the foregoing conference was attended by Reichsleiter Rosenberg, Reich Minister Lammers, Field Marshal Keitel, Reich Marshal Goering, and Bormann, and lasted about 20 hours. The memorandum states that discussion occurred with respect to the annexation by Germany of various parts of conquered Europe. The memorandum also states that a long discussion took place with respect to the qualifications of Gauleiter Lohse, who was proposed by Rosenberg at the conference as governor of the Baltic country. Discussion also occurred with respect to the qualifications of other Gauleiter and commissioners for the administration of various areas of occupied Russia. Goering stated that he intended to appoint Gauleiter Terboven for the "exploitation of the Kola Peninsula; the Fuehrer agrees." With respect to the security of the German administration in the eastern areas, the memorandum states:

"This giant area would have to be pacified as quickly as pos-
sible; the best solution was to shoot anybody who looked side-
ways
Field Marshal Keitel emphasizes the inhab-
itants themselves ought to be made responsible for their
things because it was, of course, impossible to put a sentry in
front of every shed or railway station. The inhabitants had
to understand that anybody who did not perform their duties
properly would be shot, and that they would be held respon-
sible for each offense." (L-221)

(d) Subversion of Christian Church and Persecution of the Clergy. The evidence relating to the systematic effort of the conspirators to eliminate the Christian churches in Germany is discussed in Section 6 of Chapter VII. The evidence hereinafter taken up is limited to proving the responsibility of the Leadership

Corps and its members for participation in illegal activities against the Christian church and clergy.

Bormann, who was a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Nazi Party Chancellery, issued a secret decree addressed to all Gauleiter, entitled "Relationship of National Socialism and Christianity" (D-75). In this decree Reichsleiter Bormann flatly declared that National Socialism and Christianity are incompatible and that the influence of the churches in Germany must be eliminated:

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"National Socialist and Christian concepts are irreconcilable.
Our National Socialist ideology is far loftier than
the concepts of Christianity, which, in their essential points,
have been taken over from Jewry. For this reason also, we
do not need Christianity.
* If, therefore, in the
future our youth learns nothing more of this Christianity,
whose doctrines are far below ours, Christianity will disap-
pear by itself.
It follows from the irreconcilabil-
ity of National Socialist and Christian concepts that a
strengthening of existing confessions and every demand of
originating Christian confessions is to be rejected by us. A
differentiation between the various Christian confessions is
not to be made here. For this reason, also, the thought of
an erection of an Evangelical National Church by merger
of the various Evangelical churches has been definitely given
up, because the Evangelical Church is just as inimicable to
us as the Catholic Church. Any strengthening of the Evan-
gelical Church would merely react against us.

"For the first time in German history, the Fuehrer con-
sciously and completely has the leadership of the people in
his own hand. With the Party, its components, and attached
units, the Fuehrer has created for himself, and thereby the
German Reich leadership, an instrument which makes him
independent of the Church. All influences which might impair
or damage the leadership of the people exercised by the
Fuehrer, with the help of the NSDAP, must be eliminated.
More and more the people must be separated from the
churches and their organs, the pastors. Of course, the
churches must and will, seen from their viewpoint, defend
themselves against this loss of power. But never again must
an influence on leadership of the people be yielded to the
churches. This influence must be broken completely and
finally.

"Only the Reich Government and, by its direction, the Party, its components and attached units have a right to leadership

of the people. Just as the deleterious influences of astrologers, seers and other fakers are eliminated and suppressed by the State, so must the possibility of Church influence also be totally removed. Not until this has happened, does the State leadership have influence on the individual citizens. Not until then are people and Reich secure in their existence for all the future." (D-75)

On 25 April 1941 a letter was issued from Bormann's office to Rosenberg, in his capacity as the Fuehrer's Representative for the Supervision of the Entire Mental and Ideological Training and Education of the NSDAP (070-PS). In this letter Bormann's office stated that measures had been taken leading to the progressive cancelation of morning prayers and other religious services and their substitution by Nazi mottos and slogans:

"We are inducing schools more and more to reduce and abolish religious morning services. Similarly the confessional and general prayers in several parts of the Reich have already been replaced by national socialist mottos. I would be grateful to know your opinion on a future national socialist morning service instead of the present confessional morning services which are usually conducted once per week

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In a letter from Reichsleiter Bormann to Reichsleiter Rosenberg, dated 22 February 1940, Bormann declared to Rosenberg that the Christian religion and National Socialism are incompatible (098-PS). Bormann cited, as examples of hostile divergence between Naziism and the churches, the attitude of the latter on the racial question, celibacy of the priests, monasteries and nunneries, etc. Bormann further declared that the churches could not be subjugated through compromise, but only through a new philosophy of life as prophesied in Rosenberg's writings. In this letter, Bormann proposed the creation of a National Socialist Catechism, in order to give that part of the German youth which declines to practice confessional religion, a moral foundation, and to lay a moral basis for National Socialist doctrines, which were gradually to supplant the Christian religions. Bormann suggested that some of the Ten Commandments could be merged with the National Socialist Catechism and stated that a few new Commandments should be added, such as: Thou shalt be courageous; Thou shalt not be cowardly; Thou shalt believe in God's presence in the living nature, animals, and plants; Thou shalt keep thy blood pure; etc. Deputy of the Fuehrer Bormann concluded that he considered the problem so important that it should be dis

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