STERILISATION PLAN

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 August 1946, Page 6

STERILISATION PLAN

— —— NAZI TREATMENT OF HALFJEWS • POSTPONED UNTIL VICTORY (Roc. 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 2. Germany’s plan for the sterilisation or deportation of all half-Jews was revealed by a captured document introduced before the Nuremberg Tribunal, says thhe Associated Press correspondent. The plan was drawn up by Dr. Franz Schlegelberger, Minister of Justice in the Reich Cabinet until 1942, and now a witness for the defence in the Allied case against the Cabinet. When the document was first produced, Schlegelberger denied knowledge of it, but later admitted its authorship and his “complete share at being the author of such a terrible thing.” The document bore an instruction that copies should be sent to Frick, Goering, Ribbentrop, and Rosenberg. The plan had Hitler’s approval, but its execution was delayed “until Germany won .the war.” The document stated: “Those halfJews who are capable of propagation should be given the choice of submitting to sterilisation or being evacuated in the same manner as Jews.” A German partner was to be offered an easy divorce. In the case of old couples, when the Jewish partner was not deported but allowed to enter a ghetto, the plan recommended that the German partner should, not be prevented also from entering a ghetto or renouncing his or her "rights as a member of the German community.