Children's Home No. 6 was an orphanage in Moscow established for orphans from fascism.Barry McLoughlin, Kevin McDermott (Eds.), Stalin's Terror: High Politics and Mass Repression in the Soviet Union Palgrave Macmillan (2003), p. 182. . Retrieved November 29, 2011 It was established for Austrian and German children and was considered a model in the Soviet Union, housing some 130 children.Barry McLoughlin, Kevin McDermott (2003), p. 219 In 1938, a number of the teenaged residents were arrested in the so-called Hitler Youth conspiracy, bringing pressure to close the school.
Other institutions for German-speaking children were the Karl Liebknecht School and Ernst Thälmann summer camp,Atina Grossmann, "German Communism and New Women" in: Helmut Gruber and Pamela M. Graves (eds.) Women and Socialism, Socialism and Women: Europe Between the Two World Wars (1998), pp. 160. Berghahn Books. Retrieved November 13, 2011 both of which closed around 1938.
Despite the efforts of the Austrian Communist Party to keep it open, the orphanage was closed in 1939, a week after the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.
Notable former residents Wolfgang Leonhard
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