Nazi racial and biological ideology

Much of Nazi Party policy, especially The Holocaust, was based on Adolf Hitler's views of eugenics. As he urged reproduction by what he considered superior people, he began efforts to suppress his idea of the subnormal, starting with involuntary sterilization), In Mein Kampf, he wrote,

The völkisch state must see to it that only the healthy beget children .... Here the state must act as the guardian of a millennial future .... It must put the most modern medical means in the service of this knowledge. It must declare unfit for propagation all who are in any way visibly sick or who have inherited a disease and can therefore pass it on.

Detailed policy development

The RuSHA Case of the Nuremberg Military Tribunals dealt with accusations against five organizations concerned with developing the policies to implement the ideologies:

• Main Staff Office of the Reichscommissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism, Reichskommissar fuer die Festigung des Deutschen Volkstums, commonly known as “ RKFDV ”, which reported directly to Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS
• RuSHA, the Main Race and Settlement Office (Rasse-und Siedlungshauptamt), part of the RSHA of the SS
• VOMI, the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans]] (Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle)
• Lebensborn, the Well of Life Society (

Doctrine from these staff offices guided the extrajudicial detention and genocide of Jews and other groups that violated Nazi racial concepts, as well as deportation and slave labor. These were conducted by other organizations.