ABSTRACT

Kindertransport is one of those neat, German portmanteau words. It means a trainload of children. In the ten months between November 1938 and September 1939 it was a trainload of children being thrown out by Germany and accepted, with a few cautious reservations, by Great Britain. They came at a rate of one thousand children a month, nearly ten thousand in all. The Germans actually paid for the trains that removed these infant ‘Untermenschen’ (subhumans) from the Fatherland.