Children of captured Yugoslavian partisans from Celje who were forcibly separated from their parents, arrive in Frohnleiten, Austria on their way to the Reich.
Overview
- Caption
- Children of captured Yugoslavian partisans from Celje who were forcibly separated from their parents, arrive in Frohnleiten, Austria on their way to the Reich.
- Date
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1942 August 11
- Locale
- Frohnleiten, [Styria] Austria
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
- Event History
- Soon after the invasion of Poland, the Nazis began an extensive campaign of kidnapping foreign children in order to augment the limited stock of racially pure Aryans with the most nordic specimens existing among the conquered peoples of Europe. These children were to be adopted by German families or Germanicized in special children's homes, where they would be inculcated with proper Aryan values. The resulting increase in the number of Aryan children would allow for the production of ever larger generations of Aryan offspring to people the greatly expanded German Reich, which, in the meantime, was to be cleansed of its inferior racial inhabitants. At first the campaign was confined to ethnic Germans, but it was soon expanded to include all children of "good racial characteristics." Racial hygienists from RuSHA were sent to the occupied areas to perform these examinations and selections.
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Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public DomainSource Record ID: 238.5.3-RuSHA Case, Pros. Ex. 304, Doc. 5289 A-BAKG -- Archiv fuer Kunst und Geschichte
Copyright: Exclusively with source
Keywords & Subjects
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