Nazi war crimes in Poland

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 52. Chapters: Kidnapping of Eastern European children by Nazi Germany, Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles, Massacre of Lviv professors, Expulsion of Poles by Germany, Expulsion of Poles by Nazi Germany, Mass murders in Piasnica, Ochota massacre, Ponary massacre, Intelligenzaktion in Pomerania, Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig, Czestochowa massacre, Wasosz pogrom, Lapanka, Bombing of Wielun, Tykocin pogrom, German AB-Aktion in Poland, Wola massacre, Blessed Martyrs of Nowogródek, Wieruszów County, Wawer massacre, Pacification operations in German-occupied Poland, Zambrów, Operation Reinhard in Kraków, Operation Tannenberg, Mogilno, Radogoszcz prison, Palmiry, Dynów, Sonderaktion Krakau, Trzebinia, Heu-Aktion, Szczurowa massacre, Massacre in Ciepielów, Gmina Turek, Valley of Death, Imielin, Olszewo, Gmina Bransk, Bombing of Frampol, Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte, Laskarzew, Solec Kujawski, Piatek, Lódz Voivodeship, Battle of Pecice, Sycyna Pólnocna, Badków, Lódz Voivodeship, Mszadla, Lódz Voivodeship, Klecko, Sucha Dolna, Lódz Voivodeship, Kowalewice, Lódz Voivodeship, Bombing of Warsaw in World War II, Nowa Tuchola, Parzniew, Gzinka, Swiekatowo, Buk Góralski, Koneck, Szpegawski Forest. Excerpt: Kidnapping of Eastern European children by Nazi Germany (Polish: ), part of the Generalplan Ost (GPO), involved taking children from Eastern Europe and moving them to Nazi Germany for the purpose of Germanization, or conversion into Germans. Occupied Poland had the largest proportion of children taken, but children were abducted throughout Eastern Europe, several hundreds of thousands in total. The aim of the project was to acquire and "Germanize" children with purportedly Aryan 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 special centers and then sent to German families and SS Home Schools. In the case of older children used as forced labor in Germany those determined to be racially un-"German" were sent to extermination camps and concentration camps, where they were either to be murdered or forced to serve as living test subjects in German medical experiments and thus often tortured or killed in the process. In a well-known speech 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." On 7 November 1939, Hitler decreed that Heinrich Himmler, whose German title at that time was Reichskomissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums, would be responsible for policy regarding population on occupied territories. The plan to kidnap Polish children most likely was created in a document titled Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP. 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." The last chapter of the document concerns "racially valuable" Polish children and plans to forcefully acquire them for German plans and purposes: On 15 May 1940, in a document titled (in German) Einige Gedanken uebe