The “Final Final Solution” The War Against Jewish Fetuses in Their Mothers‘ Wombs
The “Final Final Solution” The War Against Jewish Fetuses in Their Mothers‘ Wombs
Author(s): Miriam OfferSubject(s): Political history, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II, History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism
Published by: Wiener Wiesenthal Institut für Holocaust-Studien
Keywords: Anti-childbirth decree; Lithuanian ghettos; Medicine and Holocaust;
Summary/Abstract: Operation Barbarossa was a turning point between the array of dehumanising “solutions to the Jewish question”, hitherto concocted by the Nazis, and the gradual escalation into mass systematic annihilation in forest ravines, gas vans, and extermination camps. This article examines the distinctiveness of the decree against births imposed in the Jewish ghettos of Lithuania, established in the second half of 1941, in comparison with the Polish ghettos, as well as the possible connection to the Wannsee Conference decisions. Furthermore, the article addresses the coping strategies adopted in the ghettos. In view of the Wannsee Conference Protocol and the chronological proximity of the conference to the decree’s announcement, the decree appears to have constituted an additional frontier to ensure the “Final Final Solution” discussed at the meeting at Wannsee.
Journal: S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation.
- Issue Year: 12/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 51-66
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
