It is a very tragic subject and exposes dark realities of the past.
In order to be precise, the Nazi regime aimed at killing any baby born to prisoners especially that of the Jewish mother. They considered these babies as a threat and non-productive.
Gassed to death: Once they reached places like Auschwitz, the Nazis took all the people who they considered unfit to work, such as the old, ill, mothers with young children and pregnant women, and would take them and gas them to death. The babies died together with their mothers as part of the destruction decree.
Killed immediately after birth: In rare instances when a pregnant woman was able to hide and deliver the child in the camp, the SS almost always killed the newborn right after it was born. Cruelties were inhuman: drowning, lethal injection or asphyxiation.
Terrible decisions to save the mother: There are horrible decisions made by some prisoner medical staff, be it abortions they did, or newborns they killed immediately after being born, in a bid to save the mother. They knew that when a child was born, murder of the mother and anybody who helped her would take place.
It was, therefore, an excuse to kill a baby immediately in a concentration camp as per the Nazis. Few babies survived through their infantile years.

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