The relevance of the study of various aspects of the Nazi occupation regime that existed in the North-West of Russia is due to the specifics of the region during the war period, which consists in the duration of its occupation by Nazi armies, the formation of a very stable system of occupation administration here, active resistance to the occupiers, the existence of partisan edges and zones here. The purpose of the work is based on the analysis of archival documentary sources to show the Nazi occupation policy towards children and adolescents, to determine the nature of crimes against them. The scientific novelty of the research consists both in the analysis of the occupation policy itself against children and adolescents, the study of the forms and methods of its implementation in the territory of the North-West of Russia, and in the classification of documentary sources through the prism of identifying crimes against childhood committed by the occupiers in the region under consideration. Comparative-historical and statistical methods, the method of source studies, structural-diachronic and system analysis are used in the work on the article. The research is based on the documentary sources of the central and regional archives of the cities of the North-West of Russia. Among them are acts of district and village commissions to investigate the atrocities of the Nazi invaders, questionnaires of citizens who returned from forced labor, questionnaires of citizens who returned from forced labor, documents of the Leningrad headquarters of the partisan movement, documents of personal origin submitted by letters and memoirs of residents. Numerous archival documents testify to the nature of the crimes committed against childhood. Mass crimes against children and adolescents were accompanied not only by the punitive actions of the occupiers, they were the basis of their policy aimed at exterminating the local population, at stealing them to forced labor, including to Germany as cheap labor.
