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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
An Overview
Sources
Chapter 1: Adoption in Germany through the Kaiserreich
Introduction
Adoption Law
Private Social Organizations
The Kinderrettungsverein
Examples in Practice
World War I and Adoption
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Adoption in the Weimar Republic, 1919-33
Introduction
Structural Changes
Adoptive Desperation
Reform Efforts
The Fate of Adult Adoptions
Cultural Attitudes
Chapter 3: Adoption in the Third Reich, 1933-45
Introduction
Attitudes toward and Promotion of Adoption
Creation of Racial Guidelines
Institutional Takeover
Political Compulsory Adoptions
Jewish Adoption
Annulments
Forbidding of New Adoptions
Annulment of "Old" Adoptions
Annulments and Foreigners
Litzmannstadt and Lebensborn
Lebensborn
Lebensborn Houses
"Germanizable" Children
Long-Range Plans: Child Abduction
The Children of Foreign Workers
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Adoption during the Occupation, 1945-49
Institutional Revival in the Western Zones
Legal Changes in the British and the American Zones
Institutional and Legal Changes in the Soviet Zone
Chapter 5: Adoption in the Federal Republic, 1949-Present
International Adoption
International Adoption-Structural Changes
Adoption of Afro-German Children
Adoption of White German Children
International Adoption Agreements
International Adoptions to West Germany
Domestic Adoption in West Germany, 1961-Present
Chapter 6: Adoption in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-90
East German Legal Reforms
Adoption Law
Informal Adoptions
Institutional Change
Children's Homes
International Adoption
East German Adoptions of Foreign Children
Inter-German Adoption
Overriding and Zwangsadoption
Conclusion
Conclusion
Archival Materials Referenced
Archiv des Deutschen Caritasverbandes (ADCV)
Archiv des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes (ADRK)
Blätter des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes
Archiv des Diakonischen Werkes (ADW)
Allgemeine Sammlung
Auswärtiges Amt
Politisches Archiv (AAPA)
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (BayHStA)
Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (BLHA)
Bundesarchiv Berlin (BArchB)
Bundesarchiv Koblenz (BArchK)
Centrum Judaicum (CJ)
Evangelisches Zentralarchiv (EZA)
Landesarchiv Berlin (LArchB)
Staatsarchiv München (StAM)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
An Overview
Sources
Chapter 1: Adoption in Germany through the Kaiserreich
Introduction
Adoption Law
Private Social Organizations
The Kinderrettungsverein
Examples in Practice
World War I and Adoption
Conclusion
Chapter 2: Adoption in the Weimar Republic, 1919-33
Introduction
Structural Changes
Adoptive Desperation
Reform Efforts
The Fate of Adult Adoptions
Cultural Attitudes
Chapter 3: Adoption in the Third Reich, 1933-45
Introduction
Attitudes toward and Promotion of Adoption
Creation of Racial Guidelines
Institutional Takeover
Political Compulsory Adoptions
Jewish Adoption
Annulments
Forbidding of New Adoptions
Annulment of "Old" Adoptions
Annulments and Foreigners
Litzmannstadt and Lebensborn
Lebensborn
Lebensborn Houses
"Germanizable" Children
Long-Range Plans: Child Abduction
The Children of Foreign Workers
Conclusion
Chapter 4: Adoption during the Occupation, 1945-49
Institutional Revival in the Western Zones
Legal Changes in the British and the American Zones
Institutional and Legal Changes in the Soviet Zone
Chapter 5: Adoption in the Federal Republic, 1949-Present
International Adoption
International Adoption-Structural Changes
Adoption of Afro-German Children
Adoption of White German Children
International Adoption Agreements
International Adoptions to West Germany
Domestic Adoption in West Germany, 1961-Present
Chapter 6: Adoption in the German Democratic Republic, 1949-90
East German Legal Reforms
Adoption Law
Informal Adoptions
Institutional Change
Children's Homes
International Adoption
East German Adoptions of Foreign Children
Inter-German Adoption
Overriding and Zwangsadoption
Conclusion
Conclusion
Archival Materials Referenced
Archiv des Deutschen Caritasverbandes (ADCV)
Archiv des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes (ADRK)
Blätter des Deutschen Roten Kreuzes
Archiv des Diakonischen Werkes (ADW)
Allgemeine Sammlung
Auswärtiges Amt
Politisches Archiv (AAPA)
Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (BayHStA)
Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv (BLHA)
Bundesarchiv Berlin (BArchB)
Bundesarchiv Koblenz (BArchK)
Centrum Judaicum (CJ)
Evangelisches Zentralarchiv (EZA)
Landesarchiv Berlin (LArchB)
Staatsarchiv München (StAM)
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
Bibliography
Index
About the Author