The Pittsburgh Press (September 13, 1944)
Nazi ‘baby factories’ found in Belgium
Eupen, Belgium (UP) –
A number of elaborate German “baby factories” – nursing homes for children born out of wedlock to French, Belgian and German women and SS officers and men – have been found evacuated in this area.
The homes were provided by Minister of the Interior Heinrich Himmler and the practice of having children out of wedlock was encouraged, particularly in the case of SS regiments which were considered the finest in the German Army.
After birth, mothers were given a choice of keeping the babies or turning them over as wards of the Third Reich.