The Nazis did not single out children specifically because they were children, but because of their alleged membership in dangerous racial, biological, or political groups
.Along with elderly people, children had the lowest rate of survival in concentration camps and killing centers. People over fifty years of age, pregnant women, and young children were immediately sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau and other killing centers.
Children were especially vulnerable to Nazi persecution. As many as 1.5 million children, about 1 million of them Jewish, were killed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
