PEN Zentrum deutschsprachiger Autoren im Ausland
5. Dezember 2011: Neuer Text - Vampire Camps of the Wehrmacht
Vincent C. Frank hat uns seinen englischsprachigen Text über slawische Kinder, die zu unfreiwilligen Blutspendern für Wehrmachts-Soldaten gemacht wurden, zur Verfügung gestellt:
The “Vampire Camps” existed in the final years of WW2 in Eastern Europe: Slavic – not Jewish – children were kept in these camps as living blood reserves to be used in German military hospitals. The blood was given to soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht. Wounded Waffen-SS probably also received Slavic blood.
The children were taken from the street, some having lost their parents some were stolen from their parents. These children camps are not mentioned in the respective literature nor are they mentioned among the thousands of German camps known.