This is how nazism used the promotion of abortion to perpetrate genocide

The links between National Socialism and the promotion of abortion are unknown to the general public, which is very significant..

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Today, some governments are actively promoting the elimination of human lives in their prenatal age, so that talking about the promotion of abortion by Nazism has become an uncomfortable subject for many. But just because it is uncomfortable does not mean it did not exist, as @ConservaEspanol and @fjconpe pointed out yesterday on Twitter. I will limit myself here to presenting documents and testimonies that were presented at the Nuremberg Trials, which compiled evidence of the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed by Hitler's dictatorship.

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Letter from the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories, dated August 19, 1942, outlining German policies for the occupation of Eastern European countries. Document R-36 of the Nuremberg Trials. Cited in Volume 5 of the Nuremberg Trials Proceedings, pp. 331–332:

"The Slavs are to work for us. In so far as we don't need them, they may die. They should not receive the benefits of the German public health system. We do not care about their fertility. They may practice abortion and use contraceptives; the more the better. We don't want them educated; it is enough if they can count up to 100. Such stooges will be the more useful to us. Religion we leave to them as a diversion. As to food, they will not get any more than is absolutely necessary. We are the masters; we come first."

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Judgment of the Nuremberg Trials, section on the accused organizations. Discusses the Nazi Party Leadership Corps' guidelines on foreign slave workers:

"Under Sauckel's directive the Leadership Corps was directly concerned with the treatment given foreign workers, and the Gauleiters were specifically instructed to prevent "politically inept factory heads " from giving too much consideration to the care of Eastern workers. The type of question which was considered in their treatment included reports by the Kreisleiters on pregnancies among the female slave labourers, which would result in an abortion if the child's parentage would not meet the racial standards laid down by the SS and usually detention in a concentration camp for the female slave labourer."

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Testimony of Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier, a member of the French Resistance who was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in 1943. Quoted in Volume 6 of the Nuremberg Trials, page 211:

"The Jewish women, when they arrived in the first months of pregnancy, were subjected to abortion. When their pregnancy was near the end, after confinement, the babies were drowned in a bucket of water. I know that because I worked in the Revier and the woman who was in charge of that task was a German midwife, who was imprisoned for having performed illegal operations. After a while another doctor arrived and for 2 months they did not kill the Jewish babies. But one day an order came from Berlin saying that again they had to be done away with. Then the mothers and their babies were called to the infirmary. They were put in a lorry and taken away to the gas chamber."

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Communiqué of the German Peasants' Union of Carinthia cited in Volume 8 of the Nuremberg Trials, page 132:

"According to an official announcement of the German Farmers' Union in Carinthia (Landesbauernschaft Karnten) of 10 August 1944, issued in Klagenfurt, every case of pregnancy of non-German women was to be reported, and in all such cases these women were to be obliged to have their child 'removed by operation in a hospital.' The announcement itself explains that in cases when non-German women give birth to their children this 'creates difficulties for their use in work,' and besides, it is also 'a danger for the population policy.' Furthermore, this announcement states that the Office of Labor Service should try to influence these women to commit an abortion."

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Report by British Prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross as reported in Volume 19 of the Nuremberg Trials Record, page 497:

"The Nazis also used various biological devices, as they have been called, to achieve genocide. They deliberately decreased the birthrate in the occupied countries by sterilization, castration, and abortion, by separating husband from wife and men from women and obstructing marriage. I quote:

"We are obliged to depopulate"-said Miner to Rauschning- "as part of our mission of preserving the German population. We shall have to develop a technique of depopulation. If you ask me what I mean by depopulation, I mean the removal of entire racial units. And that is what I intend to carry out- that, roughly, is my task. Nature is cruel, therefore, we, too, must be cruel. If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the spilling of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin" (Document Number USSR-378)."

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Food and Agriculture Administration directive, entitled "Treatment of Pregnant Women of Non-Germanic Origin", cited by Lev Smirnov, assistant to the Soviet Union's chief prosecutor, Roman Rudenko. It appears in Volume 7 of the Nuremberg Trials Proceedings, page 546:

"There has recently been a considerable increase in the birth rate among women of non-Germanic origin. Difficulties have arisen in consequence, not only in connection with the use of these people for labor but, to a greater extent, with a danger of a social-political nature, which should not be underestimated." (...)

"The simplest method for overcoming these difficulties would be to inform, as soon as possible,-the institutions which employ them for labor, of the pregnancy of the non-Germanic women." (...)

"These institutions must attempt to compel the women to get rid of their children by resorting to abortion."