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Poles and (Polish) Jews... Victims of war... and beyond [380]
Here is the german wiki link:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugendverwahrlager_Litzmannstadt
My translation:
"...The planning for a "camp for protection of Minors East" begun already 1941.
The idea came, after own admission, from Hans Muthesius who was annoyed/disturbed that because of "lack of special care institutions" foreign (especially polish) youth got send to german care institutions.
Ont 15th November 1941 Heinrich Himmler ordered the accelerated building of the camp.
With a memo from the 30th. May 1942 the told SS-Obergruppenführer Oswald Pohl that it isn't justifiable to use SS-guards and that the overseeing has to go back to the criminal investigation department.
The camp was being build under the overseeing of the SS, but ruled and run was it by the Reichs departement for the fight against youth criminality, a special departement of the female criminal police...."
All of the sudden the Nazis are Germans, and the concentration camp is an orphanage(sic) for orphaned Poles.
No, it was definitely not an orphanage (even if very young children were tested if they were able to become adopted by german families).
It's official goal was to protect Germans from criminal polish youth.
The only thing they got right is that the internees were transfered to Ravensbruck or Auschwitz on their 17th birthday.
That doesn't seem to be true...at least it isn't mentioned anywhere.
