Deportation children

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When sending out one called the bringing of infants and school children due to health problems in spa or rest homes.

At least 8 million to as many as 12 million children were in need of relaxation or malnourished because of illness, were from the post-war period until the 1990 years in the Federal Republic spent for usually six week stay in homes by the sea or in the mountains. The small children were "sent" there in collective transports or alone.

The system and infrastructure were largely based on the Kinderlandverschickung (KLV), which already existed during the Weimar Republic and under the rule of the National Socialists, but during the war years served a general evacuation of city children from the danger of bombing (so-called extended KLV), itself aimed more at custody than at recovery.

Since the home facilities were within the competence and responsibility of the health insurance companies, there was no control of educational conditions.

These "deportations" were often perceived as traumatizing by those affected. For a long time, the deportation homes maintained a strict approach to dealing with children, occasionally still influenced by Nazi ideologies, including many cases of psychological and physical violence. In order to cover up the circumstances, it was the practice in many homes that all children had to copy given texts from a blackboard onto postcards, which were then sent home to their parents.

There are also deaths in an as yet undetermined number. The causes of death in previously documented cases range from asphyxiation from leftover food and vomit, forcibly forced on the child because it “did not want to eat”, to victims of secret drug tests.

The "Initiative for children sent" supports the networking and founding of regional groups of those affected, provides publicity and education, and the association "Processing and researching child dispatch - AEKV" was founded to motivate and promote scientific processing.

In November 2019, a congress organized by more than 75 people affected took place on Sylt for the first time with the title "The misery of the children sent away".

In May 2020, the youth and family ministers of the federal states asked the federal government to initiate a research project to come to terms with the fate of the children who were sent away. The findings so far obtained by those affected by their own research should also be taken into account. The decision also recognized "with dismay and great sadness the suffering of those affected" .

literature

Sabine Ludwig: Black houses . Cecilie Dressler Verlag, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7915-1204-4 , p. 352 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ What was dispatch? Dispatch children initiative, accessed on June 26, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Manfred Beck, Sergio Chow, Irmgard Köster-Goorkotte: Children in Germany . Realities and perspectives. In: Tübingen series . tape 16 . dgvt-Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-87159-216-4 .
  3. ↑ Ralf Vogt: Defamation and betrayal . Dissociative disorders in severely traumatized people as a result of breaches of trust. Asanger, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89334-585-4 .
  4. ^ Deaths - Deportation Homes. Dispatch children initiative, accessed on June 26, 2020 .
  5. ↑ "The Misery of the Deported Children"
  6. ↑ FOCUS Online: Rest homes as chicane hell. The terrible suffering of the children who were sent away. January 31, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  7. ^ Radio Bremen: The misery of the children who were sent away. Child abuse. November 21, 2019, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung: Displacement children: For some, the spa nightmare continues to this day. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .