RuSHA trial

The RuSHA trial (officially, United States of America vs. Ulrich Greifelt, et al) was a trial against 14 SS officials charged with implementing Nazi racial policies.

[1] Only four of the fourteen defendants were members of the RuSHA (Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, the "Race and Settlement Main Office").

[2] Others belonged to the office of the Reich Commissioner for the Consolidation of German Nationhood (Reichskommissar für die Festigung des deutschen Volkstums, RKFDV; a post held by Heinrich Himmler); the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, VoMi); and the Lebensborn society.

The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal I, were Lee B. Wyatt (presiding judge), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia; Daniel T. O'Connell of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, and Johnson T. Crawford from Oklahoma.

The tribunal considered the Lebensborn society not responsible for the kidnapping of children, which was carried out by others.