Crimes Against Children
See also: Kidnapping of Polish children by Nazi Germany and Ausländerkinder-PflegestätteAt least 20,000 children in occupied Poland were also kidnapped by the Nazis to be subjected to German indoctrination. These children were screened for "racially valuable traits" and sent to special homes to be Germanized. They were then placed for adoption if the Germanization was effective. Many of them, found by Allied forces after the war, had been utterly convinced that they were German.
Children of forced workers were mistreated in Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte, where thousands of them died. A camp for children and teenagers, Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt ran from 1943 to 1944 in Łódź.
Read more about this topic: Nazi Crimes Against Ethnic Poles
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