SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt

  • Race and Resettlement Main Office
  • RuSHA
Identifier
418
Type of Entity
Corporate Body

History

The SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt was a Nazi racial research office. This bureau compiled genealogical tables including racial statistics of families in Germany and the Netherlands. The RuSHA selected candidates for ‘Germanization’ and kidnapped Polish children who were designated for the Lebensborn, Fountain of Life. It also determined Aryan fitness of ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche) who wanted to settle in conquered Polish territory and checked the purity of the SS and their mates.

Places

  • Founded in Germany.

Sources

  • Dictionary of the Holocaust : Biography, geography, and terminology / E.J. Epstein, P. Rosen. – Westport, 1997. – p. 240