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The Hitler Youth, and the Children Who Defied Hitler

Khalid Elhassan March 7, 2025 15 min

Hitlerjugend - Enthusiastic indoctrinated children at a Nazi rally — Enthusiastic indoctrinated children at a Nazi rally. K-Pics

8. The Nazis Encouraged Out of Wedlock Aryan Teen Pregnancies

Members of the League of German Girls salute Hitler at the 1936 Nuremberg Rally. Pinterest

Mixed gender gatherings of the youth organizations, such as the Nuremberg rallies, often produced bumper crops of teen pregnancies. The most famous of those, the 1936 Nuremberg Rally, led to an estimated 900 pregnancies. It is unclear how many of those pregnancies were the result of consensual sex between Nazi teens, and how many the result of molestation by adult Nazis. However they came about, the number of pregnancies dismayed many. Traditional conservative elements still held some sway at the time, and the Lebensborn crowd had not yet gained an ascendancy. So a temporary stir and kerfuffle ensued. In the end, many of the pregnancies were terminated by abortions, on orders from the Nazi Party.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.