![]() ![]() A German general and NSDAP government official, Erich Hilgenfeldt, while inspecting some of those locations was troubled by what he saw. By other estimates, up to 200,000 children might have died. It is estimated that between 19 some 100,000 infants of slave labourers from Poland and the Soviet Union were killed by forced abortion or by calculated neglect after birth in Germany. The mortality of the Zivil- und Ostarbeiter babies was very high on average, exceeding 50 percent regardless of circumstances. In the event a foreign female worker was considered to be of Germanic blood, such as Norwegian, her child was kept alive, but this was rare. When "racially valuable", they were removed for Germanisation. Children were either born in, or brought into any one of the estimated 400 Ausländerkind-Pflegestätte homes as "parentless". Abortions were enforced after determining whether the probable father was a German or otherwise Germanic in origin. 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. ![]() On 11 March 1943, the Reichsführer-SS signed a decree allowing for abortions "requested" by the young Zivil- und Ostarbeiter. Ībortion in Germany was illegal as far as German women were concerned, thus the law had to be altered. Preoccupied with their new babies, foreign labourers could no longer work for the benefit of the Nazis. Meanwhile, by the spring of 1942 the arrival of trains with the girls from Poland turned into slave markets in German towns and villages, as in Braunschweig among other locations, where the young women were beaten, starved, and prohibited from speaking to each other. For example, of the 3,000 babies born at Auschwitz, some 2,500 newborns were drowned in a barrel at the maternity ward by the German female overseers. Notably, the babies born inside concentration camps were not released into the communities. The SS suspected the victims of "cheating their way out of work" by conceiving. A staggering 80 percent of rapes resulting in unwanted births occurred on the farms where the Polish girls worked. Nazi policy Īmong the Polish and Soviet female forced labour ( German: Zivil- und Ostarbeiter) unintended pregnancies were common due to rampant sexual abuse by their overseers. At some locations, up to 90 percent of infants died a torturous death due to calculated neglect. The babies and children, most of them resulting from rape at the place of enslavement, were abducted en masse between 19. During World War II, Nazi birthing centres for foreign workers, known in German as Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte (literally "foreign children nurseries"), Ostarbeiterkinderpflegestätten ("eastern worker children nurseries"), or Säuglingsheim ("baby home") were German institutions used as stations for abandoned infants, Nazi Party facilities established in the heartland of Nazi Germany for the so-called 'troublesome' babies according to Himmler's decree, the offspring born to foreign women and girls servicing the German war economy, including Polish and Eastern European female forced labour. ![]()
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