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Officially, the Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt (Race and Settlement Main Office). Founded in 1931 as part of the Nazi party, the RuSHA originally conducted race "research" to determine the racial suitability of prospective candidates for SS membership and potential spouses for SS members. Currently, RuSHA experts make pseudo-scientific determinations of who is German and who has the “racial potential” to be German. In June of 1933, the RuSHA become a unit of the German government (much as the SS and other Nazi organizations had), and became involved in many of the uglier policies of genocide, sterilization, etc. The first Director of the RuSHA is Richard Walther Darré, Reichsminister of Food and Agriculture, and Reich Peasant Leader.

Up to this point, "settlement" has the less ugly open intent of "settling Aryan peasant stock onto farmland within Germany."