Nazi Germany perpetrated various crimes against humanity and war crimes against children, including the killing of children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in accordance with Nazi ideological views,
Cropped "Ivanhorod Einsatzgruppen photograph", portraying a policeman of the German Ordnungspolizei aiming his rifle at a woman who is trying to shield a child with her body
Czesława Kwoka, 14-year-old Auschwitz concentration camp victim
Grave-site memorial from the Am Spiegelgrund clinic in Vienna, where 789 child "patients" were murdered by the Nazis as part of the child euthanasia program.
Warsaw Ghetto boy, an iconic photograph representing children in the Holocaust
During the Holocaust, children were especially vulnerable to death under the Nazi regime. An estimated 1.5 million children, nearly all Jewish, were murdered during the Holocaust, either directly by o
Nazi crimes against children
…attacks. It is estimated that during World War II Nazis killed 2 million Polish and Polish Jewish children in occupied Polish territories. 1.5 million Jewish children perished in the Holocaust; tens of thousands of Romani children died in the Romani Holocaust, between 5,000 and 25,000 disabled children were killed as part of the Nazi euthanasia…
Jewish twins kept alive to be used in Mengele's medical experiments. These children were liberated from Auschwitz by the Red Army in January 1945.
A group of children wait in line at an Ustaša concentration camp
Children rounded up for deportation to the Chełmno extermination camp.