Herman Gauch

[Annelie]

Was very surprised to read in Traces of My Father by Sigfrid Gauch

When I was in the top grade school, we saw a film. It reported how--by an order from Himmler--children
from Polish families who were blond and blue eyed were taken from their relatives and brought to Germany to be brought up as future leaders in Napola Schools. None of those who saw the film know that this idea emanated from my father.
He photographed some of these children during the war when he was with Antiaircraft Regiment 17 in East Poland, sent Himmler the photos, and suggest that this kind of German stock should be rescued from pernicious Slavic inluence. The transportation program stemmed from that.