Children taken from eastern Europe during the SS "Heuaktion" (Hay Action), and temporarily imprisoned in Auschwitz awaiting their transfer to Germany, look out from behind the barbed wire fence. Approximately 40,000 eastern European children were transferred to Germany during the "Heuaktion," a cover name for the kidnapping of children aged 10 to 14 deemed suitable for "re-Germanization" into the Reich. The "Heuaktion" was one of many such operations carried out by the SS with the cooperation of institutions administered by its youth and "Lebensborn" programs.

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