By the winter of 1941 everyone in Ravensbrück knew that babies were being aborted in the Revier. The rules were that babies must not be born here. In the early days those arriving pregnant were so few that they were simply sent off to give birth in a hospital at Templin, a nearby town. Two years later, however, the number of pregnant women had multiplied, due almost entirely to the arrival in Germany of thousands of Polish slave labourers.
