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of the department were SS Gruppenführer Günther Pancke
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and Gruppenfuhrer Ottc Hoffmann. The Rasse und Sled-
lungs Hauptamt was one of the throe oldest main depart-
ments of the central direction of the SS (Reichsfuhrung
SS)o Prior to 1940 it had a wide range of activities,
but in 1940 in the general reorganization of the central ,
administration of the SS the Rasae und Siedlungs Hauptant
lost several of its departments.
Its main function was to translate into practice
the general racial theories of the SS ideology, zj In
putting these theories into practice the RSHA assumed
authority in all matters of applied "race" geneology,
e.g., the issuance of marriage permits within the SS.
It was responsible for the execution of the policy of
settling SS iron» especially ex-servicemen, as peasants
and colonists (V.ehrbauern) in the borderlands of the
Reich and in occupied (Eastern) territories of the Reiche
In the resettlement of racial Germans repatriated from
Eastern and South-Eastern Europe it cooperated with such
SS-controlled organizations as the Volksdeutsche Mlttelii
stelle and the Office of the Relchkomml3 3ar fur die
Festirunr des Deutschen Volkstums (Reichs Commissioner for
the Consolidation of Cernan Folkdom^.
1/ i-'or details of tho Ideology see paper Nazi Health
and Racial Policy. R&A No. 3114«7»
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