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|caption=Letter from ] office to '']'' family of Herr Müller in Germany informing that two perfect boys have been found for them to choose one they like. The boys' names have already been Germanized, 18 December 1943
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* 20,000–50,000 children<ref name=Zahra/>
**20,000 from Poland<ref name=Moses247/>
**20,000 from the Soviet Union<ref name=Moses247/>
**10,000 from western and southeastern Europe<ref name=Moses247/>
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During ], 20,000–50,000<ref name=Zahra/> mostly Polish and Soviet children were abducted from their homes and forcibly moved to ] for the purpose of ], or indoctrination into becoming German. According to ]' estimate, 20,000 children were abducted for such purposes from Poland, 20,000 from the Soviet Union, and 10,000 from ] and ].<ref name=Moses247>{{cite book|author=A. Dirk Moses|title=Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zHAGNPTkqIC&q=Germanization+%22Polish+children&pg=PA260 |publisher=New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004|page =247| accessdate= 2008-09-16 | isbn=978-1-57181-410-4|year=2004}} Limited preview. ].</ref><ref name=Zahra>{{cite book |last1=Zahra |first1=Tara |title=The Lost Children |year=2011 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-04824-9 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZfk4gYUOjAC&q=tens+of+thousands&pg=PR7 |language=en |quote=20,000–50,000 East European children had been deliberately kidnapped for Germanization during the war}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Teaching about the Holocaust: A Resource Book for Educators |date=2001 |publisher=DIANE Publishing |isbn=978-1-4289-2637-0 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0t8vFaujpkMC&pg=PA22 |language=en}}</ref> The aim of the project was to acquire and "]" children with purportedly ]-] traits, who were considered by Nazi officials to be descendants of German settlers that had emigrated to Poland. Those labeled "racially valuable" were forcibly Germanized in centres and then sent to German families and SS Home Schools.<ref name=Moses255>{{cite book|author=A. Dirk Moses|title=Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zHAGNPTkqIC&q=Germanization+%22Polish+children&pg=PA260| location =New York and Oxford | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2004|page =255|accessdate=2008-09-16 | isbn=978-1-57181-410-4}}</ref>

==Background==
In a ] to his military commanders at Obersalzberg on 22 August 1939, Adolf Hitler condoned the killing without pity or mercy of all men, women, and children of Polish race or language.<ref name =Milton>{{cite web|author=Sybil Milton|url=http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=395115|title=Non-Jewish Children in the Camps|work=Multimedia Learning Center Online (Annual 5, Chapter 2)|year=1997|publisher=The ]|accessdate=2008-09-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215030206/http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=395115|archive-date=2010-12-15|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 7 November 1939, Hitler decreed that ], whose German title at that time was Reichskomissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, would be responsible for policy regarding the population of occupied territories. The plan to kidnap Polish children most likely was created in a document titled ''Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP''.<ref name=Hrabar28/>

On 25 November 1939, Himmler was sent a 40-page document titled (in English translation) "The issue of the treatment of population in former Polish territories from a racial-political view."<ref name=Hrabar28>{{cite book|author=Roman Zbigniew Hrabar|title=Hitlerowski rabunek dzieci polskich: Uprowadzanie i germanizowanie dzieci polskich w latach 1939-1945 | publisher=Śląski Instytut Naukowy w Katowicach, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk | year = 1960|page =28 | language = Polish}}</ref> The last chapter of the document concerns "racially valuable" Polish children and plans to forcefully acquire them for German plans and purposes:

{{quote|we should exclude from deportations racially valuable children and raise them in old Reich in proper educational facilities or in German family care. The children must not be older than eight or ten years, because only till this age we can truly change their national identification, that is "final Germanization". A condition for this is complete separation from any Polish relatives. Children will be given German names, their ancestry will be led by special office.<ref name=Hrabar28/>}}

On 15 May 1940, in a document titled (in German) ''Einige Gedanken ueber die Behandlung der Fremdenvoelker im Osten'' ("A Few Thoughts about the Treatment of Racial Aliens in the East"), and in another "top-secret memorandum with limited distribution, dated 25 May 1940", titled (in English translation) "The Treatment of Racial Aliens in the East", Himmler defined special directives for the kidnapping of Polish children.<ref name=Milton/><ref name = Hrabar29>{{cite book|author=Roman Zbigniew Hrabar|title = Hitlerowski rabunek dzieci polskich: Uprowadzanie i germanizowanie dzieci polskich w latach 1939-1945 |publisher=Śląski Instytut Naukowy w Katowicach, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk | year = 1960 |page = 29}}</ref> Himmler "also outlined the administration of incorporated Poland and the ], where Poles were to be assigned to compulsory labor, and racially selected children were to be abducted and Germanized."<ref name=Milton/>

Among Himmler's core points:<ref name=Hrabar28/>
*In the territory of Poland, only four ] would remain, in which education would be strictly limited. Children would be taught to count only to 500, to write their own name, and that God commanded Poles to serve Germans. Writing was determined to be unnecessary for the Polish population.
*Parents who desired better education for their children would have to apply to the ] and police for a special permit. The permit would be awarded to children deemed "racially valuable". Those children would be taken to Germany to be Germanised. Even then, the fate of each child would be determined by the loyalty and obedience to the German state of his or her parents. A child determined to be "of little racial value" would not receive any further education.
*Annual selection would be made every year among children from six to ten years of age according to German racial standards. Children deemed adequately German would be taken to Germany, given new names and further Germanised.<ref name = Hrabar28/> The aim of the plan was to destroy "]" as an ethnic group, and leave within Poland a considerable slave population to be used up over the next 10 years. Within 15 to 20 years, Poles would be completely eradicated.<ref name="Germany">{{Cite journal | title = Germany and Eastern Europe: Cultural Identities and Cultural Differences | first1 = Keith | last1 = Bullivant | first2 = Geoffrey J | last2 = Giles | first3 = Walter | last3 = Pape | publisher = Rodopi | year = 1999 | page = 32}}</ref>

On 20 June 1940, Hitler approved Himmler's directives, ordering copies to be sent to chief organs of the SS, to ]s in German-occupied territories in Central Europe, and to the governor of General Government, and commanding that the operation of kidnapping Polish children in order to seek Aryan descendants for Germanisation be a priority in those territories.<ref name=Nowa/><ref name=Madajczyk/><ref name =Hrabar93/>

Himmler mused on initiating similar projects in ].<ref name="table">Hitler, Adolf; ] (2007). ''Hitler's table talk, 1941-1944: his private conversations'', p. 303. Enigma Books.</ref> ] records him expressing his belief that "the ] problem" would be best solved by yearly extractions of a number of racially healthy children, chosen from "France's Germanic population". He preferred they be placed in German ]s, in order to separate them from their "incidental" French nationality, and to make them aware of their "Germanic blood". Hitler responded that the "religious ] tendencies of the French people" would make it almost impossible to "salvage the Germanic elements from the claws of the ] of that country".<ref name="table"/> ] believed it to be an ingenious policy, ] it in the document record as a "sinister theory!".<ref name="table"/>

==Conditions of transfer==
{{See also|Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany|Ethnic cleansing of Zamojszczyzna by Nazi Germany}}
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The conditions of transfer were very harsh, as the children did not receive food or water for many days.<ref name="lukas22">Richard C. Lukas, ''Forgotten Holocaust'' p. 22, {{ISBN|0-7818-0528-7}}.</ref> Many children died as a result of suffocation in the summer and cold in the winter.<ref name="lukas22"/> Polish railway workers, often risking their lives, tried to feed the imprisoned children or to give them warm clothes. Sometimes the German guards could be bribed with jewelry or gold to allow the supplies to go through, and in other cases they sold some of the children to Poles.<ref name="lukas22"/> In ] and ], Poles bought children for 40 Reichsmarks. In some places the German price for a Polish child was 25 zlotys.<ref name=Lukas>{{Cite book | first = Richard C | last = Lukas | title = Germanization | url = http://www.projectinposterum.org/docs/lucas3.htm | work = Did the Children Cry? Hitler's War against Jewish and Polish Children, 1939–1945 | location = New York | publisher = Hippocrene Books | year = 2001 | accessdate = September 15, 2008 | chapter = 2, 3}}</ref>

The children were kidnapped by force, often after their parents had been murdered in concentration camps or shot as "partisans", including a handful of the children of ].<ref>], ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 253-4 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> These children would not be permitted to remain even with other living relatives.<ref>Richard C. Lukas, ''Forgotten Holocaust'' p. 27, {{ISBN|0-7818-0528-7}}.</ref> Some were purportedly from German soldiers and foreign mothers, and others were declared "German orphans" who had been raised by non-German families.<ref name=Moses248>{{cite book|author=A. Dirk Moses|title=Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in Australian History|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5zHAGNPTkqIC&q=Germanization+%22Polish+children&pg=PA260| location =New York and Oxford | publisher = Berghahn Books | year = 2004|page =248|accessdate= 2008-09-16 | isbn=978-1-57181-410-4}} Limited preview. ].</ref> Indeed, orphanages and children's homes, along with children living with ]s, were among the first groups targeted, in the belief that Poles deliberately and systemically Polonized ethnically German children.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 244-5 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref>

Later the children were sent to special centres and institutions or to, as Germans called them, "children education camps" (''Kindererziehungslager''), which, in reality, were selection camps where their "racial values" were tested, their original metrics of birth destroyed, and their Polish names changed to German names, as part of ]. Those children who were classified as "of little value" were sent to ] or to ].<ref name=Lukas/>

==Selection==
] map signed with number 15; where Polish children were selected.]]
{{see also|Kinder KZ|Untermensch}}

The children were placed in special temporary camps of the health department, or ] e.V., called in German ''Kindererziehungslager'' ("children's education camps"). Afterwards they went through special "quality selection" or "racial selection" — a detailed racial examination, combined with psychological tests and medical exams made by experts from ] or doctors from ] (health department). A child's "racial value" would determine to which of 11 racial types it was assigned, including 62 points assessing body proportions, eye colour, hair colour, and the shape of the skull.

During this testing process, children were divided into three groups (in English translation):
#"desired population growth" ({{lang|de|erwünschter Bevölkerungszuwachs}});
#"acceptable population growth" ({{lang|de|tragbarer Bevölkerungszuwachs}}); and
#"undesired population growth" ({{lang|de|unerwünschter Bevölkerungszuwachs}}).<ref name=Hrabar43>{{cite book|author=Roman Z. Hrabar|title=Hitlerowski rabunek dzieci polskich: Uprowadzanie i germanizowanie dzieci polskich w latach 1939-1945|publisher=Śląski Instytut Naukowy w Katowicach, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 1960|page = 43}}</ref>
The failures that could result in a child, otherwise fitting all racial criteria, into the second group included such traits as "round-headed" referring to ].<ref name="Lynn H. Nicholas p 250">Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 250 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> Children could be declared the third group for ], "degenerate" skull shape, or for "Gypsy characteristics".<ref name="cruel251">Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 251 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> A girl who was later identified by a small birthmark would have been rejected had the birthmark been much larger.<ref name=Sereny>], , rpt. in '']'' (]). Accessed September 15, 2008. (Reprinted by permission of the author from ''Talk'' .)</ref>

These racial exams determined the fate of children: whether they would be killed, or sent to concentration camps, or experience other consequences. For example, after forcibly taking a child away from his or her parents, "medical exams" could be performed in secret and in disguise.<ref name=Hrabar44>{{cite book|author=Roman Z. Hrabar|title=Hitlerowski rabunek dzieci polskich: Uprowadzanie i germanizowanie dzieci polskich w latach 1939-1945 |publisher=Śląski Instytut Naukowy w Katowicach, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk, 1960|page =44}}</ref>

Many Nazis were astounded at the number of Polish children found to exhibit "Nordic" traits, but assumed that all such children were genuinely German children, who had been ]; ] summoned up such views when he declared, "When we see a blue-eyed child we are surprised that she is speaking Polish."<ref name=Lukas/> Among those children thought to be genuinely German were children whose parents had been executed for resisting Germanization.<ref name=Gumkowkski>{{cite book|url=http://www.dac.neu.edu/holocaust/Hitlers_Plans.htm |title=Hitler's Plans for Eastern Europe |author=Janusz Gumkowski and Kazimierz Leszczyński |location=Warsaw |publisher=Polonia Publishing House |year=1961 |accessdate=2008-09-22 |pages=7–33; 164–78 |work=Poland Under Nazi Occupation |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.is/20120527021449/http://www.dac.neu.edu/holocaust/Hitlers_Plans.htm |archivedate=2012-05-27 |df= }}</ref>

==German documentation==
Once selected, the children between six and twelve were sent to special homes. Their names were altered to similar-sounding German ones.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p. 249 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> They were compelled to learn German and beaten if they persisted in speaking Polish.<ref name=Eddy>{{cite news|author=Melissa Eddy|title=Stolen: The Story of a Polish Child 'Germanized' by the Nazis|work=StarNewsOnline (Wilmington, North Carolina)|publisher=]|url=http://www.starnewsonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070508/NEWS/705080331/-1/State|date= 2007-05-08|accessdate=2008-09-16|quote=If they met racial guidelines, they were taken; one girl got back home.}}</ref> They were informed their parents were dead even if they were not.<ref name=Gumkowkski/> Children who would not learn German or remembered their Polish origin were sent back to youth camps in Poland.<ref name="Lynn H. Nicholas p 250"/> In some cases, the efforts were so successful that the children lived and died believing themselves to be Germans.<ref name=Lukas/>

The authorities were reluctant to let the children be officially adopted, as the proceedings might reveal their Polish origin. Indeed, some children were maltreated when their adoptive parents learned that they were Polish.<ref name=Gumkowkski/> Adoption was also problematic because surveillance or more information might reveal problems with the child.<ref name="cruel251"/> When it was learned that Rosalie K's mother was epileptic, for instance, it was immediately concluded, despite the wishes of her German foster parents, that Germanization, education and adoption were therefore not justifiable.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 251-2 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> When adoptive parents demanded adoption certificates, such records were forged for them.<ref name="cruel251"/>

==German medical experiments==
Those children who did not pass harsh Nazi exams and criteria and who were therefore selected during the operation, were sent as test subjects for experiments in special centres.<ref name=Uzarczyk>{{cite book|author=Kamila Uzarczyk|title=Podstawy ideologiczne higieny ras|year=2002|publisher=Toruń: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek, 2002|pages=285–89|isbn=83-7322-287-1}}</ref> Children sent there ranged from eight months to 18 years. Two such centres were located in German-occupied Poland. One of them, Medizinische Kinderheilanstalt, was in ] in ] – in this centre children were also subject to forced "]";<ref name=Uzarczyk/> while the second was located in ]. Children were given ] drugs, chemicals and other substances for medical tests, although it was generally known that the true purpose of those procedures was their mass extermination.<ref name=Uzarczyk/>

==Post-war repatriation efforts==
The extent of the program became clear to Allied forces over the course of months, as they found groups of "Germanized" children and became aware that many more were in the German population.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 501-2 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> Locating these children turned up their stories of forcible instruction in the German language and how the failures were killed.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 502 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> Teams were constituted to search for the children, a particularly important point when dealing with institutions, where a single investigator could only interview a few children before all the rest were coached to provide false information.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 505 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> Many children had to be lured into speaking the truth; as for instance complimenting their German and asking how long they had spoken it, and only when told that a nine-year-old had spoken German for four years, pointing out that they must have spoken before then, whereupon the child could be brought to admit to having spoken Polish.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 506 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> Some children suffered emotional trauma when they were removed from their adoptive German parents, often the only parents they remembered, and returned to their biological parents, when they no longer remembered Polish, only German.<ref name=Sereny/> The older children generally remembered Poland; ones as young as ten had forgotten much, but could often be reminded by such things as Polish nursery rhymes; the youngest had no memories that could be recalled.<ref name=Sereny/>

Allied forces made efforts to repatriate them.<ref name="cruel479"/> However, many children, particularly Polish and Yugoslavian who were among the first taken, declared on being found that they were German.<ref name="cruel479">Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 479 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> Russian and Ukrainian children, while not gotten to this stage, still had been taught to hate their native countries and did not want to return.<ref name="cruel479"/> While many foster parents voluntarily brought forth well-cared-for children, other children proved to be abused or used for labour, and still others went to great efforts to hide the children.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 508-9 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref>

After the war, The United States of America v. ], et al., or the ], the eighth of the twelve ], dealt with the kidnapping of children by the Nazis.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 507 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> Many children testified, although many of their parents were afraid to let them return to Germany.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 507-8 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> From 1947 to 1948, the ] ruled that the abductions, exterminations, and Germanization constituted ].<ref name=Greifetetal>{{cite web |title= Trial of Ulrich Greifelt and Others, United States Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 10 October 1947 – 10 March 1948, Part IV|url=http://164.11.131.30/WCC/greifelt4.htm|quote= he crime of genocide… was taken by the prosecution and the Tribunal as a general concept defining the background of the total range of specific offences committed by the accused, which in themselves constitute crimes against humanity and/or war crimes.|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070611031358/http://164.11.131.30/WCC/greifelt4.htm|archivedate=2007-06-11}}</ref>

Only 10 to 15 percent of those abducted returned to their homes.<ref name=Piotrowski>{{cite book|first =Tadeusz | last = Piotrowski|title=Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic, 1918–1947|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A4FlatJCro4C&q=Germanization+%22Polish+children%22&pg=PA22| location =Jefferson, North Carolina | publisher = McFarland & Co | year = 1998|page =22|isbn = 978-0-7864-0371-4 }}</ref> When Allied effort to identify such children ceased, 13,517 inquiries were still open, and it was clear that German authorities would not be returning them.<ref>Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p 513 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref>

==Statistics==
Between 1940 and 1945, according to official Polish estimates, approximately 200,000 Polish children were abducted by the Nazis.<ref name=Nowa>''Nowa Encyklopedia Powszechna PWN'' (Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, 2004), 2: 613. {{ISBN|83-01-14181-6}}.</ref><ref name=Madajczyk>{{cite book|author = Czesław Madajczyk|title=Generalna Gubernia w planach hitlerowskich. Studia|publisher=Warsaw: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe | year = 1961|page = 49 | language = Polish}}</ref><ref name =Hrabar93>{{cite book|author=Roman Z. Hrabar|title=Hitlerowski rabunek dzieci polskich: Uprowadzanie i germanizowanie dzieci polskich w latach 1939-1945 |publisher=Śląski Instytut Naukowy w Katowicach, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Śląsk | year = 1960|page =93 | language = Polish}}</ref> The actual figure was significantly less, estimated by ] to be around 20,000–50,000 for all of Eastern Europe.<ref name=Zahra/> According to ]' estimate, 20,000 children were abducted for such purposes from Poland, 20,000 from the Soviet Union, and 10,000 from western and southeastern Europe.<ref name=Moses247/> Additional non-German-speaking children were ] along with German civilians, while tens of thousands of foreign children were recruited as ] or born to female forced laborers in Germany. Confusion between ] and non-German children was another factor that led to inflated estimates.<ref name=Zahra/>

==Memorials==
After the war, a memorial plate was made in ] dedicated to railway workers who tried to save Polish children from German captivity.<ref name= Szubiak>{{cite web|author=Marek J. Szubiak|url=http://roztocze.net/newsroom.php/13293|title=Dzieciństwo zabrała wojna|work=Newsroom|publisher=Roztocze Online (P. Rogalski & R. Moteka)|date=2002-12-10|accessdate=2008-09-24|language=Polish|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423235217/http://roztocze.net/newsroom.php/13293|archive-date=2016-04-23|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Notes==
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==References==
*Hrabar, Roman Z., Zofia Tokarz, and Jacek E. Wilczur. ''The Fate of Polish Children During the Last War''. Trans. Bogdan Buczkowski and Lech Petrowicz. Rada Ochrony Pomników Walki i Męczeństwa. Warsaw: Interpress, 1981. {{ISBN|83-223-1950-9}} (10). {{ISBN|978-83-223-1950-5}} (13).
*Milton, Sybil. . Museum of Tolerance, ''Multimedia Learning Center Online''. Annual 5, Chapter 2. Copyright © 1997, The ]. Accessed September 25, 2008.
*Richard C. Lukas, , 1939-1945. Hippocrene Books, New York, 2001
* and and – Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection at ] Library (HLSL).
* D. Kidnapping of Children of Foreign Nationality: 3. Polish Children" (inactive URL). Cf. {{webarchive |url=https://archive.is/20070612145409/http://www.mazal.org/archive/nmt/04a/NMT04-C001.htm |date=June 12, 2007 |title="The RusSHA Case: }} D. Kidnapping of Children of Foreign Nationality: 3. Polish Children" (Internet Archive URL). 993–1028 in ''Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10''. © Mazal Library, n.d. NMT04-C001. Nuernberg Military Tribunal, Vol. IV, Pages VII — VIII: "''The RuSHA Case''". {{webarchive |url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20121206030103/http://www.mazal.org/ |date=December 6, 2012 }}. ''mazal.org''. Accessed September 15, 2008. (Trial documents.) <!--This URL and the Mazal site seem not to be functioning. Sept. 25, 2008. Perhaps too much traffic directed to site via Misplaced Pages and Wikis based on this article.-->

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