The Older Children
As for the children aged six to twelve, things were very different. When they arrived at the “special homes”, officials told them that their parents had been killed and that they required taking on German names to replace their Polish ones.
The Older Children
German was the only language they could speak and the punishment for speaking any other language was severe beating. Any child who proved incapable of learning German, was sent to youth camps. Those who could, were sent for adoption. Many of these children believed that they were German, and completely forgot their past and heritage.
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Medical Test Subjects
Any children who didn’t pass the racial purity test, were sent to different concentration camps where they were killed. Others who weren’t killed were forced to become medical test subjects of the worst kind.
Medical Test Subjects
Children from the age of 8 months to 18 years experienced medical torture that resulted in death, trauma, permanent disability or disfiguration. The majority of the children who passed through the medical wing didn’t make it out alive.
