Oct 30, 2020 · On December 12, 1935, Germany instituted the Nuremberg Laws that banned intermarriage between most Germans and Jewish people. But Lebensborn was enacted in secret the same day. The program was led by Heinrich Himmler himself. Women were recruited from the Band of German Maidens, the female wing of the Hitler Youth.

Aug 17, 2020 · Lebensborn (loosely translated “Spring of Life”) was a secret breeding program established by Adolf Hitler in 1935. In keeping with Hitler’s Aryan master race concept, German Women of “pure” blood bore blond, blue-eyed children in its clinics. Fourteen of the clinics were located in Germany, nine more in Norway.

Sep 29, 2020 · By the end of World War II, Lebensborn became involved in the Nazi regime’s systematic kidnapping of thousands of “biologically valuable” foreign children to be raised in German homes. The Lebensborn program was created by the SS in late 1935 in order to promote the growth of Germany’s healthy “Aryan” population.

Jan 12, 2024 · The disgusting program was a system of supervised selective breeding in which unmarried ‘racially pure’ women were instructed to have children with Nazi officers and create a “super race” for the German Reich that would rule for …

Nov 22, 2017 · In 1935, the German government estimated that as many as 800,000 pregnancies were ending in abortion every year. To Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler, this was an …

Nov 29, 2021 · DW says that most of the Lebensborn homes ended up being built in Norway, where the 350,000-odd German soldiers were encouraged to fraternize with Norwegian women. Thousands of these partnerships led to children being born, and the occupying Nazis made it quite clear: These children were German. And then, the war ended.

When much of Europe came under German control during WWII, German occupiers were encouraged to breed with women from Nordic populations. The offspring were often birthed in Lebensborn clinics, which were scattered across Europe, then raised as Germans.

Mar 11, 2020 · It is estimated that some 20,000 such babies were bred during the 12 years of the Third Reich (1933–45), principally in Germany and Norway. Here, Giles Milton explores Hildegard Trutz’s experience and reveals why the young German woman was …

In a policy formed by Hitler in 1942, German soldiers were encouraged to fraternize with native women, with the understanding that any children they produced would be provided for. Racially fit women, most often the girlfriends or one-night stands of SS officers, were invited to Lebensborn homes to have their child in privacy and safety.

29th January 1944: The Nazis plan to replace their war dead by getting German women to produce as many children as possible