During World War II, Nazi birthing centres for foreign workers, known in German as Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte, Ostarbeiterkinderpflegestätten, or Säuglingsheim were German institutions used as stati
Commemorative plaque at the entrance to the former NSDAP home in Velpke where 76 Polish and 15 Soviet babies were killed by starvation in 1944
Medical checkup before departure to unknown German slave markets; already pregnant foreigners were not allowed entry into Germany.
Preoccupied with their new babies, foreign labourers could no longer work for the benefit of the Nazis.
During World War II, around 200,000 ethnic Polish children as well as an unknown number of children of other Slavic ethnicities from the Soviet Union were abducted from their homes and forcibly transp
Nazi birthing centres for foreign workers
…am Pyhrn (Austria): Here existed the first such birthing centre in the whole German Reich, at least 49 children died due to undersupply and neglect. Kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany Kinder KZ adjacent to Litzmannstadt Ghetto…
Letter from Lebensborn office to Reichsdeutsche family of Herr Müller in Germany informing that two perfect boys have been found for them to choose one they like. The boys' names have already been Germanized, 18 December 1943.
Kidnapping of Polish children during the Nazi-German resettlement operation in Zamość county
Czesława Kwoka, one of many Polish children murdered at Auschwitz by the Nazis