The
racial policy of Nazi Germany created two racial categories—
Untermenschen and
Aryans—to which all peoples and ethnicities belonged. The
Untermenschen were inferior people fit only for extermination, mainly referring to
Jews and
Slavs who inhabited much of
Central and Eastern Europe. The Nazis, as part of the
Lebensraum concept, sought to conquer these lands, depopulate them of
Untermenschen, and resettle them with Germans and other superior "Aryan" peoples to create a
Greater German Reich. Nazi racial policy resulted in forced
Germanization,
forced abortions, and
population transfers of people in Central and Eastern Europe. The main agencies responsible for enforcing Nazi racial policy, all of which belonged to the
SS were: • The
Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA) — an organization for "safeguarding the racial purity of the SS" that served as advisory and executive office for all questions of racial policy. The trial was nicknamed for RuSHA though only four of the defendants were members. • The
Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood (RKFDV) — an office led by SS chief
Heinrich Himmler responsible for the return and resettlement of the ethnic Germans from abroad. • The
Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (VoMi) — an organization to manage the interests of ethnic Germans living outside of Nazi Germany. It was responsible for implementing the settlement of ethnic Germans in conquered territories in Eastern Europe. • The
Lebensborn e.V. — a
registered association of the SS with the stated goal of increasing the number of Aryan children born. Many non-German children, judged by Aryan criteria for their suitability to be raised in Lebensborn homes, were
kidnapped from their parents and
fostered by German families. ==Indictment==