Soon Himmler’s SS resettlement commissions were scouring the orphanages of Poland, Ukraine and Belorussia to pick out suitably ‘Aryan’-looking children they could ‘Germanise’ themselves. With too much ‘living space’ now available to Germans, Himmler told the guardians of racial purity to dilute their criteria and to ‘distil’ every ‘drop of good blood’ out of the racial ‘mish-mash’ of the eastern nations.
