Speech by Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler at Bad Schachen,
14th October 1943, Pages 23, 30.
THE QUESTION OF SECURITY
I consider that in dealing with members of a foreign country, especially some Slav nationality, we must not start from German points of view and we must not endow these people with decent German thoughts and logical conclusions of which they are not capable, but we must take them as they really are.
Obviously in such a mixture of peoples there will always be some racially good types. Therefore I think that it is our duty to take their children with us, to remove them from their environment, if necessary by robbing or stealing them * * *
Either we win over any good blood that we can use for ourselves and give it a place in our people or * * * we destroy this
blood.
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For us the end of this war will mean an open road to the East, the creation of the Germanic Reich in this way or that . . .
the fetching home of 30 million human beings of our blood, so that still during our lifetime we shall be a people of 120 million Germanic souls. That means that we shall be the sole decisive power in Europe. That means that we shall then be able to tackle the peace, during which we shall be willing for the first twenty years to rebuild and spread out our villages and towns, and that we shall push the borders of our German race 500 Kilometres further out to the East.
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Bruno Bettelheim being first duly sworn deposes and says:
1. I was born in Vienna, Austria and lived there up until the annexation of Austria by the Germans in March, 1938. My education was obtained at the Progressive-Real-Gymnasium at Vienna and the University of Vienna where I received a Ph.D. degree in psychology and philosophy in 1938. For a period of approximately twelve years prior thereto I had conducted research work in psychology and education. I was also interested in a business which I inherited from my father. This business, a joint stock
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Extracts from a speech, on the need to take children who have "good blood" and destroy others, and the plan to extend German racial borders 500 kilometers to the East
Authors
Heinrich Himmler (Reichsfuehrer-SS and Chief of Police; Minister of Interior)
Heinrich Himmler
German Nazi politician; leader of the German SS and main architect of the Holocaust (1900-1945)
- Born: 1900-10-07 (Munich)
- Died: 1945-05-23 (Lüneburg)
- Country of citizenship: German Empire (period: 1900-10-07 through 1918-01-01); Nazi Germany (since: 1923-01-01); Weimar Republic (period: 1915-01-01 through 1937-01-01)
- Occupation: farmer; laboratory technician; occultist; politician
- Member of political party: Bavarian People's Party (period: 1919-01-01 through 1923-01-01); National Socialist Freedom Movement; Nazi Party
- Member of: Academy for German Law (since: 1933-01-01); Altreichsflagge (until: 1926-01-01); Artaman League; Bund Reichskriegsflagge
- Participant in: Beer Hall Putsch (date: 1923-11-09); Nazi human experimentation (role: administrator); Night of the Long Knives
- Significant person: Rudolf Brandt (role: secretary, stenographer; since: 1934-01-01)
Date: 14 October 1943
Literal Title: Speech by Reichsfuehrer SS Himmler at Bad Schachen, 14th. October 1943. The Question of Security.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: L-70
Citations: IMT (page 1525), IMT (page 1542)
HLSL Item No.: 451124
Trial Issues
Germanization of persons, property, or occupied territories (IMT, NMT 3, 8) Racial selection and discrimination (theory, screening, relocations, kidna…
Document Summary
L-70: Himmler's speech at conference of commanding officers of Wehrmacht in Badd Schnachen, 14 Oct 1943 (translated in News Digest, 1566, 30 Sept. 1944)
Himmler's special at conference of commanding officers of Wehrmacht in Badd Schachen 14 Oct 1943 ([Illegible] in News Digest 1566, 30 Sept 1944)
L-70: 14 Oct. 1943 - Excerpts from speech by RFSS HIMMLER at Bad Schachen
Speech by Himmler at Bad Schachen, 14 October 1943.