Walheimat - monthly issue number 4 1942

Waldheimat - Elternbrief der Erweiterten Kinderlandverschickung - Gau Steiermark, (Literally Forest Home - Parent Letter from the Extended Evacuation of Children to the Countryside - Styrian Region) - Issue 4, 1942. Illustrated magazine for parents of children who have been send to Gau Steiermark-Styria camps by Kinderlandverschickung (KLV) because of allied bombings of German cities, 12-16 pages each, very rare. The cover picture caption reads: Boys from the Mariazell KLV camps at work. The main headline reads: Greetings to all new campers! The Kinderlandverschickung (KLV) was a Nazi-era program in Germany that involved evacuating children from cities to rural areas during World War II. While presented as a measure to protect children from wartime dangers like bombing raids, the program also had a strong ideological component, aiming to indoctrinate youth with Nazi values. An estimated 2.5 million children participated in the KLV and involved establishing KLV camps where children lived under the supervision of teachers and subjected to activities and educational programs formulated by the Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth)

Campers Caption Component Dangers Dresden Educational Establishing Estimated Evacuating Evacuation Extended Formulated Ideological Indoctrinate Involved Jugend Kinderlandverschickung Literally Lived Mariazell Measure Nazi-era Participated Programs Protect Raids Steiermark Styrian Subjected Supervision Teachers Values

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