STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1269, sig. 109-4/1023 (damaged)

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14a 4 b) Unmarried children of the man or woman belonging to a family community in which only one spouse was admitted to the German People's List: The illegitimate child from the non-German part of the marriage will regularly not be included in the German people's list.Exceptions are however possible if this child is racially suitable and if it was raised by the German-born marriage part German, so that it can actually be considered as fully Germanized or if the producer was demonstrably a German national. III.Foreign stepchildren. (a) Foreign stepchildren who belong to a family joint,in which both spouses are included in the German People's List: 1.If the stepchild has been brought into the marriage by a woman of non-German descent, it is regularly to be classified as the mother,if there are no racial concerns in the individual case. 2.If the stepchild was brought into the marriage by a man of non-German descent, it must be registered regularly in the same department as the father.The provisions of II a 2 and II a 1 sentence 2 apply accordingly. (b) stepchildren belonging to a family community where only one spouse is included in the German People's List: the provisions of IIb apply mutatis mutandis. (4) The Reichsführer-i,Reichskommissar für die Festigung deutschen Volkstums,Rasse- und Besiedlungshauptamt, is responsible for the decision on racial suitability. 11227 Bo I ask you to ensure that foster children, illegitimate children of a non-German part of the marriage and stepchildren. which come from a non-German part of the marriage, are removed from the German family community if they cannot be included in the German People's List according to the above principles, in particular because of hereditary or racial inferiority, such children are then OTA