NAZI POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 April 1942, Page 4

NAZI POLICY

TECHNIQUE OF DEPOPULATION “We are obliged to depopulate: That is part of our mission for safeguarding the Germanic population. We shall have to create a technique of depopulation. And if you ask me what I understand by depopulation I shall reply that for me it means the disappearance of entire racial entities. Nature is cruel; we, too, can be cruel. If I throw the flower of German youth into the hell of war, without pity for the precious Germanic blood thus spilt, I surely have the right to cause thousands of beings of an inferior race teeming like vermin to disappear. Moreover, by causing to disappear I do not necessarily mean destroy; I shall simply take systematic measures to reduce their natural fertility. For example, I shall keep the men separated from the women during many years.” Thus Hitler spoke to Rauschning. Many took such outbursts as exaggerated. Today one million five hundred thousand French soldiers are being held, in Germany and in France, as prisoners of war. Is it any wonder that in these camps men whisper as they pass one another. “Vive de Gaulle! Vive I’Angleterre!” by way of encouragement? states a Free French exchange.