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Even before the events of World War II, Germany struggled with the idea of African mixed-race German citizens.While interracial marriage was legal under German law at the time, beginning in 1890, some colonial officials started refusing to register them, using eugenics arguments about the supposed inferiority of mixed-race children to support their decision. [3]
Czesława Kwoka, 14-year-old Auschwitz concentration camp victim. 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, either as part of their idea of racial struggle or as a measure of preventive security.
Starting in the 1920s, the Nazi Party "targeted German youth as a special audience for its propaganda messages". [1] They encouraged the formation of Nazi youth groups for children who were "dynamic, resilient, forward-looking, and hopeful." [1] As the Nazi Party grew, the number of children they targeted increased. By 1936, "membership in Nazi ...
Additional non-German-speaking children were evacuated along with German civilians, while tens of thousands of foreign children were recruited as forced labourers or born to female forced labourers in Germany. Confusion between ethnic German children from Eastern Europe and non-German children was another factor that led to inflated estimates. [1]
Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was a secret, SS-initiated, state-registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics (also called "racial hygiene" by some eugenicists).
Mischling (German: [ˈmɪʃlɪŋ] ⓘ; lit. ' mix-ling '; pl. Mischlinge [1]) was a pejorative legal term which was used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed "Aryan" and "non-Aryan", such as Jewish, ancestry as they were classified by the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935. [2]
German child soldiers in World War II (2 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Nazi crimes against children" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
The Nazis and their collaborators killed children for these ideological reasons and in retaliation for real or alleged partisan attacks. [2] Early killings were encouraged by the Nazis in Aktion T4, where children with disabilities were gassed using carbon monoxide, starved to death, given phenol injections to the heart, or hanged.