II-74. NEGROES PRISONERS OF AUXILIARY TROOPS OF THE FRENCH CIVIL NATION IN MARCH

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If these measures were to be carried out consistently, Himmler wrote, then over the course of the next ten years the population of the General Government 'will necessarily be reduced to a remnant of substandardized human beings'; it would then consist of a 'leaderless labour force' capable of furnishing Germany with a yearly supply of casual labourers. Children who were 'racially valuable' would be carried off to Germany and 'Germanized'; the 'remainder' would be deliberately made to vegetate […].

From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 79.

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