Of all the hateful crimes committed by the Germans, the murder and torture of defenseless children for me is the worst.
We are in a society haunted by the media, especially TV, where we go from the image of an agonizing child in Africa to the announcement of a luxurious villa or how to cook meat better. Murders and violence of all kinds have been seen by our children before and to a much greater extent than us and therefore their sensitivity is not the same as ours to their years.
Likewise, interest in history, which was never the majority, is less than ever and current Germans benefit from it, since if the atrocities of their parents and grandparents were known in depth, the whole world would spit in their faces.
We will not go into the concept of collective guilt, which for me it exists, but it is true that no people, not even the Japanese have committed so many cruelties in such a systematic way and with the participation, and knowledge, of so many people .
As we saw in my previous post on this subject, the Germans drew blood to Russian children until their death, now we will see that they also did it with Jewish children despite all their theories about the races, it seems that Jewish blood was worth them for their wounded . What a country of hypocrites!
This atrocity was known as early as 1943 :
This topic is limited to the last years of World War II and to Eastern Europe: Slavic children were kept in special camps for the sole purpose of delivering blood to wounded German soldiers and officers in military lazarettos. More than a dozen such camps have been named and recognised by sources and witnesses; towards the end of WWII some of the “Vampire Camps of the Wehrmacht” were transferred to Germany.
The children were collected on the street or taken by force from their parents. Depending on the rarity of their blood group they had to deliver blood once a week, or even more frequently. The age-limit was from 5 years (often lower) till puberty. The withdrawal of blood is remembered by the victims as a coarse procedure that caused considerable pain.
After blood withdrawal, the children were given candy – but no nourishing sustenance. When the children inmates of these camps were bled dry, they were disposed of by gas-wagon or shut. Very few survived. The documentation on the procedure is poor. Relevant historical documents from the times were found mostly in Eastern Europe, not in Germany. Systematic historic research has not yet been undertaken anywhere.
The paucity of documents deserves special interest: The demand for fresh blood increased during the course of the war. Medical personnel indoctrinated in Nazi race theory knew of the “risks” they run of mix Slavic with Arian blood. The loss in manpower could be reduced by transfusing “inferior” Slavic children’s blood to wounded German combatants – a typical dilemma between ideology and experience. Transfusing Slavic blood to Arian military had to be kept as a strict secret by the Wehrmacht, particularly from the SS. The transfusions from child to wounded had to be conducted with extreme division of labour and careful compartmentalization, avoiding personal contact between “donor” and recipient. Following WWII the Soviet authorities had no interest in recognising this small group of children as victims. The practice came to light only as a by-product of war crime trials and thanks to recent testimony of survivors.
Vincent C. Frank-Steiner (Basel, Switzerland) – Slavic children forced to donate their blood for wounded enemy soldiers
More testimonies :
Short childhood at Krasny Bereg
German killers of children
Testimony of Lyudmila Melashchenko
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Are there many who remember and can speak about this?
For a long time, few people knew that there were children’s donor concentration camps. Veterans, partisans and heroes were the focus, having brought victory. Children were victims. There were five donor children’s concentration camps in Belarus, with four located in the Gomel Region and one in the Minsk Region. Only one prisoner-of-war — Zoya Kazakevich — returned from Krasny Bereg camp; she has died now but had a miraculous escape. She was brought to Germany, where a German woman dragged her out of a pit half-dead and helped her recover.
What happened to those children whose blood was taken?
In most cases they died. Blood was taken several times, leading to the children losing consciousness and failing to wake. Only a few survived, but we have no exact figures. I do know that the Germans took 3,500 litres of blood from children at Salaspils concentrated camp. Child-donors were in a privileged position, receiving soup, sweets, tea and hot chocolate on their days of blood collection. Those who weren’t fit were mercilessly killed.
More from Lyudmila Melashchenko :
In the Estate Of Winczent-Pokrewski. The enormous halls of architectural monument during the war were hospital chambers for the injured German soldiers and the officers.
– Here was a German garrison… And in this building all rooms, and here them there were about 33, they were filled by the injured. And these injured needed the fresh donor blood, tells the scientific worker of memorial “Belorussian children – the victims of fascism” Ludmila MELASHCHENKO. In the same building – the occupiers held about 2000 children. Predominantly girls from 8 to 14 years. the 1st group of the blood and positive Rh factor were most frequently encountered precisely in them. Benevolent aunts in the white dressing gowns regularly came and took away children by groups. They placed to the tables under the inclination and pushed through slender knobs into the openings in the wall. They took away the blood completely, and bodies were burnt.
No German has been punished by these horrific crimes, no nurse, no doctor, no soldier, returned to Germany mostly safe and educated their children and grandchildren, how did they educate them and what remains of these murderers in their descendants?
Of course the Germans taked blood from every prisioner :
Gisella Perl’s memoir “I Was A Doctor In Auschwitz”
“The doctors of the hospital were sent for. The sight which greeted us “when we entered Block VII is one never to be forgotten. From the cages along the walls about six hundred panic-stricken, trembling young women were looking at us with silent pleading in their eyes. The other hundred were lying on the ground, pale, faint, bleeding. Their pulse was almost inaudible, their breathing strained and deep rivers of blood were flowing around their bodies. Big, strong SS men were going from one to the other sticking tremendous needles into their veins and robbing their undernourished, emaciated bodies of their last drop of blood. The German army needed blood plasma! The guinea pigs of Auschwitz were just the people to furnish that plasma. Rassenschande or contamination with “inferior Jewish blood” was forgotten. We were too “inferior” to live, but not too inferior to keep the German army alive with our blood. Besides, nobody would know. The blood donors, along with the other prisoners of Auschwitz would never live to tell their tale. By the end of the war fat wheat would grow out of their ashes and the soap made of their bodies would be used to wash the laundry of the returning German heroes.
We were ordered to put these women back on their feet before they returned to camp so as to make place for others. What could we do without disinfectants, medicines, liquids? How could we replace the brutally stolen blood? All we had were words, encouragement, tenderness. And yet, under our care, these unfortunate creatures slowly returned to life and they even smiled when saying: “This is still better than the crematory.”
Block VII was always full. Once it was the women with beautiful eyes who were told to come forward, once the women with beautiful hands. And the poor wretches always believed the stories they were told, came forward, and to the amusement of the SS henchmen gave their last drops of precious blood for the German soldiers who used the strength robbed from us to murder our friends, our relatives, our allies.”
Holocaust and WWII in the East 