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Nazi birthing centres for foreign workers

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194: 202: 647:„Zuhause". Im Schlafraum sind 80 bis 100 Frauen untergebracht. Zwischen den Stockbetten stehen schmale Spinde, in denen die Frauen ihre wenigen Habseligkeiten verstauen, mehr Platz gibt es nicht. Das Gebäude ist umzäunt, Ausgang meist nur sonntags für ein, zwei Stunden möglich. Der Pförtner legt für jede Frau willkürlich fest, wann sie wieder im Lager sein muß. Wer zu spät kommt, wird geschlagen. Schläge setzt es auch, wenn die Frauen bei der Arbeit miteinander sprechen oder wenn sie etwas falsch machen. Der Einrichter schlägt, die Lagerführerin schlägt, der Meister schlägt. Die Arbeit ist körperlich schwer, das Essen völlig unzureichend und das wenige oft bereits verdorben. 29: 266:
I consider the manner, in which this matter is treated at present, as impossible. There is only one way or another. Either we have no desire to keep these children alive – therefore we should not allow them to slowly starve to death and swindle so many litres of valuable milk from the
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Der Bahnhof gleicht einem Sklavenmarkt. Ein Fingerzeig und Marusja wird zusammen mit anderen ausgesuchten Frauen auf einem Holzwagen zur Blechwarenfabrik Bremer & Brückmann, Juliusstr. 1, gebracht. Ein kleines zweigeschossiges Gebäude auf dem Firmengelände ist für die nächsten drei Jahre ihr
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Geborene Kinder wurden in der Regel den Müttern weggenommen. Von nun an unterschieden die Behörden bei den Neugeborenen zwischen Kindern, die "dem Deutschtum zu erhalten und ... daher als deutsche Kinder zu erziehen" waren (sie wurden in deutsche Familien gegeben), und "rassisch minderwertigen
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occurred on the farms where the Polish girls worked. The SS suspected the victims of "cheating their way out of work" by conceiving. Notably, the babies born inside concentration camps were not released into the communities. For example, of the 3,000 babies born at
226:. Pregnant slave workers, who were forced to abort by the Germans, had to sign printed requests before surgery and were threatened with prison time and death by starvation. Abortions were enforced after determining whether the probable father was a 151:. The babies and children, most of them resulting from rape at the place of enslavement, were abducted en masse between 1943 and 1945. At some locations, up to 90 percent of infants died a torturous death due to calculated neglect. 477:"Eksterminacja "niewartościowych rasowo" dzieci polskich robotnic przymusowych na terenie III Rzeszy w świetle postępowań prowadzonych przez Oddziałową Komisję Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu w Poznaniu" 285:
himself who intentionally gave these "assembly stations", a pompous name of the nursing homes for the non-German children, while all along planning their mass murder known euphemistically as "the special treatment"
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babies was very high on average, exceeding 50 percent regardless of circumstances. It is estimated that between 1943 and 1945 some 100,000 infants of slave labourers from Poland and the Soviet Union were killed by
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general food supply. Or we intend to raise these children in order to utilize them later on, as labor. In this case they must be fed in such a manner that they will be usable as workers.
292:). The immediate reason for the local Gestapo to insist on setting up so many of these institutions was that pregnant German women absolutely refused to enter the facilities where the 193: 974: 886:
The accused were charged with committing a war crime at Velpke, Germany, between May and December, 1944, in the killing by wilful neglect of a number of children, Polish nationals.
281:-Holthausen birth and abortion camp, 1,273 infants were purposely left to die in the so-called baby-hut and then simply checked off as stillborn. Historians believe that it was 148: 201: 390: 182:, some 2,500 newborns were drowned in a barrel at the maternity ward by the German female overseers. Meanwhile, by the spring of 1942 the arrival of trains with the 300:
in this matter, signed on 27 July 1943, foreign mothers who were unable to get back to work after giving birth were to be exterminated along with their babies.
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or by calculated neglect after birth in Germany. By other estimates, up to 200,000 children might have died. A German general and NSDAP government official,
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children, including their intentionally misdiagnosed mothers (usually as being "mentally ill"), were established at the Bavarian state hospital at
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Medical checkup before departure to unknown German slave markets; already pregnant foreigners were not allowed entry into Germany.
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Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy: Coming to Terms With Forced Labor, Expropriation, Compensation, and Restitution
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Database with information on over 400 confinement institutions in Nazi Germany for the children of Zwangsarbeiters
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Kindern," die in "Ausländerkinder-pflegestätten" völliger Vernachlässigung und dem sicheren Tod überlassen wurden.
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among other locations, where the young women were beaten, starved, and prohibited from speaking to each other.
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Preoccupied with their new babies, foreign labourers could no longer work for the benefit of the Nazis.
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in origin. Children were either born in, or brought into any one of the estimated 400
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Entbindungsheim für Ostarbeiterinnen. Braunschweig, Broitzemer Straße 200
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The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality
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homes as "parentless". When "racially valuable", they were removed for
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where 76 Polish and 15 Soviet babies were killed by starvation in 1944
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Gräber ohne Namen, Die toten Kinder Hannoverscher Zwangsarbeiterinnen
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Cordula Wächtler, Irmtraud Heike, Janet Anschütz, Stephanus Fischer
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Ausstellung in der Gedenkstätte Zellentrakt (18 September 2009).
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signed a decree allowing for abortions "requested" by the young
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trial, two death sentences for the killing of Polish children.
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turned into slave markets in German towns and villages, as in
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The true victims' statistics, however, will never be known.
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Ausstellung Zwangsarbeit Dokumention der Ausstellungsbanner
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Bibliography: R. Hrabar, N. Szuman; Cz. Łuczak; W. Rusiński
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Systematically neglectful children's homes in Nazi Germany
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for the so-called 'troublesome' babies according to
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Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web
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Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web
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Index


NSDAP
Velpke
Reichsführer-SS
Nazi Germany
World War II
Nazi Party
Nazi Germany
Himmler
female forced labour
German
Zivil
Ostarbeiter
unwanted births
Auschwitz
girls from Poland
Braunschweig


Abortion in Germany
German women were concerned
Reichsführer-SS
German
Germanic
Germanisation
Norwegian
forced abortion
Erich Hilgenfeldt
Waltrop
Himmler

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