IRO-ITS-Child Search Branch – Yearly report 1948 History

IRO-ITS-Child Search Branch – Yearly report 1948 History 

IRO-ITS-Child Search Branch – Yearly report 1948 History 

1 electronic resource (9 Pages) 

The yearly report begins with an explanation about Himmler's eugenic ideology implemented in the Lebensborn project and the justification of the kidnapping for children for the purpose of Germanization. As an example serves the case of Lidice. After the massacre of all if the adult males and the deportation of the females to a concentration camp, the children considered fit for Germanization were taken to Lebensborn home.The IRO and ITS tried to find those children and established a Child Search Branch for that purpose. Furthermore, the organization of the Child Search Branch is explained in details and a typical child search and trace case example is attached.