The expulsions of Poles, along with kidnappings of Polish children for the purpose of Germanization,[20] were managed by two German institutions, VoMi, and RKFDV under Heinrich Himmler.[21] In settlements already cleared of their native Polish inhabitants, the new Volksdeutsche from Bessarabia, Romania and the Baltics were put, under the banner of Lebensraum.[22] Battalion 101 "evacuated" 36,972 Poles in one action, over half of the targeted number of 58,628 in the new German district of Warthegau (the total was 630,000 by the war's end, with two-thirds of the victims being killed),[23] but also committed murders among civilians according to postwar testimonies of at least one of its former members.[18]