Nazi Germany wanted to give birth to as many babies as possible who would have a role in the Third Reich. Guntram Weber, who was born in an SS orphanage, told correspondent Hanna Mahlamäki about his painful background, which he only found out in his old days.
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Berlin
When the baby cried, he was put in the carriage. The carts were pushed into a dark room and left there until the “squealing” stopped, as the nurses used to say. At that time, in Germany, babies wanted to be hardened. That way they would grow up to be proper Nazis.
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