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Security chief Reinhard Heydrich calls for special camps for neglected children and young people in December 1939. In early 1940, the Reich Criminal Police Office in Berlin began building youth protection camps for the police. Youth welfare offices, police, SS, Hitler Youth and the Gestapo were able to arrest young people and children who did not fit the Nazi image and intern them in the so-called youth protection camps without a court order. This happened in Germany, but also in the occupied territories. From 1941, the youth concentration camps were experimental fields for Nazi racial policy. Under the direction of Dr. Robert Ritter, so-called criminal biologists tried their thesis that criminality and "anti-sociality" are hereditary. The film lets former inmates of the youth concentration camps Moringen (for boys) and Uckermark (Ravensbrück, for girls) tell how they were arrested from one day to the next as young people and tries to follow their individual fates in the camps.—anonymous

The film lets former prisoners of the Moringen and Uckermark youth concentration camps have their say with a lot of calm. Today's eighty-year-old's tell how they were arrested from one day to the next when they were 15 or 16 years old. They report on their arrival in the camp, on everyday life as a prisoner, on forced labor and hunger, on terror and draconian punishments by the SS, and on the very personal need of each individual in this situation characterized by lawlessness and arbitrariness. Most of them did not end their imprisonment until the spring of 1945.—Kino Lumière