Nazi Children's Factory
The idea of the program "Lebensborn" goes back to a number of the main tenets of the Nazi ideology - if a German child was conceived, it must be born. The birth of powerless and sick people is unnatural and must be corrected. The "precious blood" of the Aryans in no case should not be confused with the "defective" representatives. “Lebensborn” was not a eugenic organization in which blond and blue-eyed women and men made children to the Führer. Nor was she a charitable society that took care of single mothers and their offspring. "Lebensborn" can be described as an SS institution, a tool of Hitler's racial policy, focused on creating a "new race of gentlemen", as well as the destruction of subhumans.
The organization, whose name translates from German as “source of life”, was created long before World War II, 12 in December 1935, and the project was led by SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler. “Lebensborn” was a continuation of the project “Mutter und Kind” - “Mother and Child”, launched in 1934 year. Officially, the aim of society was to fight with the increased number of abortions, the annual number of which in the territory of pre-war Germany reached a catastrophic figure of six hundred thousand. The sharp drop in the birth rate seriously disturbed the "great minds of the nation", because the country was preparing for bloody conquests and the redistribution of the whole world. And who will fight for their country when women do not give birth to soldiers? Then a grandiose plan was born in the head of the Reichsfuhrer to revive and purify the Aryan race by creating special receivers in which women could give birth and leave babies to the care of the state. At the beginning of the war, about eighty million people lived in Germany, and by the end of the war Hitler planned to increase the population to one hundred and twenty million. The moral side of the question did not interest anyone, because the “great” goal justified any means to achieve it.
The main slogan of the project, calling on young women in Germany to participate in the fertility increase program, was the phrase: “Give the child to the Führer!”. To conceive a child out of wedlock was no longer considered shameful, especially if his father was a Wehrmacht thoroughbred Aryan soldier. The future representative of the “nation of gentlemen” passed the symbolic rite of baptism, during which the mother on behalf of the baby swore allegiance to the Nazi ideology. In his book “My Struggle,” Adolf Hitler summarized the essence of the program, which was to “give the world progeny, which is like God, and not a cross between a man and a monkey.”
All the young women of the Third Reich, in particular the members of the German Girls Union, were constantly subjected to ideological treatment, indicating their high destiny and duty to the country. The mother was sent to one of the special twelve maternity hospitals with a high level of medical care, and after the birth of the child, he automatically became the property of the nation. Either the mother herself could be engaged in raising the baby, while the state paid her allowance, or she signed the relevant papers and transferred the newborn to the Lebensborn orphanage, from which he could later be determined to be educated in a proven German family, where he was inculcated with the ideas of a “new order” on the future domination of the Aryan race in Europe.
A small "nuance" in the admission of a child to the orphanage was only that both parents of the baby had to submit special certificates about the genuine racial purity of the future citizen of the "great nation", the absence of chronic and genetic diseases and convictions from his ancestors. Also, to help program workers, a special “Bureau of race and overpopulation” was created, which could, by its decision, prohibit communication between people whose ancestors suffered from any hereditary diseases. In addition, the bureau employees carried out thorough checks of the pedigree lines of people who are about to marry in order to identify undesirable impurities of Jewish blood. Before each marriage, each SS officer was obliged to provide a special certificate indicating that his bride and her ancestors, who lived up to 1750, were pure-blooded Ariogermanans! After the “racial” assessment, each woman was defined in one of three groups: standards-compliant, with average European indicators and racially inferior. About fifty-six percent of women who sent an application to Lebensborn were rejected for various reasons.
After birth, babies who were children of SS officers, according to tradition, received a silver spoon and a cup, which were made in a special factory near Munich. And women who gave life to four or more children were presented with a maternal cross and a silver candlestick with an engraving, which said that it "is only a link in an endless chain of generations".
In the 1938 year, the organization Lebensborn, which grew to nine departments, was incorporated into the Personal Staff of the Reichsführer SS. Oberführer Gregor Ebner and Standartenführer Max Solman were appointed as its leaders. Soon, the Reich's own human resources did not seem enough, and from 1941, the Lebensborn program moved to a new stage, the goal of which was to “Germanize the Slavic peoples.” To do this, in Yugoslavia, the Czech Republic, Poland, and from the middle of 1943 and in the USSR, SS officers were ordered to withdraw children who had blond hair and blue eyes. The terrible facts of kidnapping kids right on the street are confirmed by numerous eyewitnesses to the events. There are cases when children aged only a few days from birth were taken. Thus, growing up, the children not only did not know anything about their real parents, but also what nation they actually belong to.
Human reproduction has reached a huge scale in Norway, as the Scandinavians have always been considered the closest in blood to the Aryan race. And since the 400 thousandth army of the Germans occupied the territory of Norway for a long six years, only according to official data, starting from 1940 and up to 1945, according to the Lebensborn project in Norway, twelve thousand babies were born. Denmark also fell into the racial plans of the Nazis. The command of the Wehrmacht reported that from September 1941-th to September 1942-th year in this country were recorded seven hundred cases of the birth of children from the German military. But the real figure was much greater. The Belgian branch of Lebensborn opened in the spring of 1943. However, the institution was so unpopular that the SS was forced to provide him with armed guards. And after one of the few German babies was strangled at the branch, all the local nurses were tortured. In France, by the end of 1943, the number of German illegitimate children reached eighty-five thousand. The figures are nothing frivolous, but the SS leadership also opened a branch here.
The meat grinder on the Eastern Front was a little like the “champagne campaign”. With the Soviet Union in accordance with the order of Keitel, who demanded "to use any means even against women and children," the Germans fought a war of total annihilation. Therefore, according to the declassified data, no Lebensborn shelters officially existed on the territory of our country. Nevertheless, this does not refute the numerous facts of the theft of infants and children of school age in the Soviet territories occupied by the Germans. A shocking interview with Max Zolman, one of Lebensborn’s chiefs, confirmed that the number of children stolen during the war years, according to various estimates, could be from five to fifty thousand. SS officers gave preference to children under the age of three, because they quickly forgot their native language and where they came from. Soviet children were placed not only in shelters, but also were given up for rearing in trustworthy German families. So, the project, hiding behind saving the lives of innocent babies, gradually turned into a factory for the production and cultivation of future members of the “perfect and purebred Nordic race”, which planned to settle the territories of nearby Czech Republic, Poland and the Soviet Union after their occupation.
If the parents from whom the child was taken were trying to resist, they were shot without hesitation. The kids were collected in the detention facilities and carefully examined. Those who met all the parameters were sent to Germany, and the rest had to go to the gas chamber. Often, the prey of the SS became the kids who live with their parents in partisan detachments. The circumstances of the removal of partisan children after the defeat of the underground partisan cell in Slovenia in the 1942 year are known. All babies under the age of five were recognized as belonging to the “race of gentlemen” and sent to “Lebensborn” shelters for “adaptation”. Germans shot adults and older children on the spot.
Heinz Wirst, a famous professor and historian from Dresden, has been studying the problem of child abduction for a long time. He came to the conclusion that the first "experiments" of the Nazis with the abduction of Soviet kids who met the requirements of the Third Reich began in the spring of 1942. In accordance with the draft chief "expert on the eastern lands," Erhard Wetzel, who works for the Fuhrer, it was intended to Germanize a quarter of the population of Russia. In this regard, the abduction of children in the USSR has become truly widespread. After receiving the relevant order from the founder of Lebensborn, Himmler, according to the data found by Wetzel, only in August and September of 1943 were ten thousand of our children sent to the shelters of the organization.
“Potential Aryans” were most often searched in the northern regions of Russia, the Pskov and Novgorod regions. A large number of them were exported from the Bryansk and Smolensk regions, as well as from the Crimea, which the German leadership planned in the future to turn into one large settlement of Lebensborn students. When entering Lebensborn Shelter, Slavic children underwent a special procedure for assigning an Old German name. It is also known about the abduction of women of "Aryan appearance." For these cases the Nazis prepared in advance and very carefully. For example, even before the German troops entered Kharkov, the special agents of the fascists already had information about where young women live, suitable for the reproduction of the “great nation”. Immediately after the capture of the region, special teams traveled around all the addresses in the list and took the girls away, leaving them at the disposal of the SS units working for the Lebensborn program. One can only guess about their terrible fate.
According to the plans of the Fuhrer, the kids of “Lebensborn” were to become the basis of a new race, receiving material support and custody of the German elite. Supervised by representatives of the Order of the SS, they should have been promoted to leadership positions, which would create a whole network of influential pro-German minded people capable of controlling the territories of European countries and regions of the USSR. One of the worst pages stories - to turn the children of the countries-fighters against the Nazis into staunch supporters of the Reich. Great luck that these plans were destroyed along with the fall of Hitler's Germany.
Initially creating a program for the revival of the nation, Himmler planned to reach the figure of one hundred thousand saved the lives of German babies saved from abortion. However, scientists tend to argue that the real numbers are near the mark of twenty thousand children. Anyway, the true state of affairs will remain a mystery. In the spring of 1945, the SS men who had been crammed by the Allied troops hurriedly closed the maternity homes, taking the children and secret files to the main house in the German suburb of Steinhöhring near Munich. 28 April 1945 of the year, when the Americans were literally on the threshold, the project archive with all the data was burned by its employees. Other sources claim that all papers were thrown into the Isar. In any case, all the information about the children who were given up for upbringing in German families simply disappeared. Most of them have never learned and will not know the history of their birth and their real parents.
The most severe trials fell to those who, at the time of the end of the war, were in Lebensborn shelters in Norway. The Nazis did not have time to destroy all the documents there, and after the surrender of Germany, the anger of the compatriots fell upon the program participants. The leadership of Norway only encouraged such an attitude towards the “Aryans involuntarily”. The children who were brought into the world by the copulation of German officers and Norwegian women were not just persecuted and harassed, many of them, together with their mothers, had to go through a real hell. About eight thousand "German bastards", as they were called in their homeland, were sent to Australia. Those who remained in the country lived in an atmosphere of constant fear, they were threatened and humiliated, and the authorities officially accused of mental retardation. Women were either sent to concentration camps, or did the most humiliating and hard work. The result of this policy was the massive suicides of the victims of Lebensborn, who simply could not withstand the moral pressure. Many of these children began to use drugs, became criminals.
At the Nuremberg Trials, members of the “Himmlerian children's factories” were presented with three charges: crimes against humanity, looting of the occupied territories and belonging to the SS. After a five-month investigation, examination of documents and interrogation of witnesses, the American tribunal 10 of March 1948 passed the final verdict. According to him, the head of Lebensborn, Max Zolman, together with his closest associates, was acquitted of the first two counts and convicted of the third charge.
The “houses of lightning”, so named because of the presence of the corresponding symbols on the emblem of the project “Lebensborn”, crushed many lives and children's souls. After the end of the war, only a quarter of the children from Eastern Europe, taken from their parents and having undergone SS incubators, returned home. The fate of the rest remained unknown, including almost all Soviet children. In modern Germany, a special organization “Lebenshpuren” has been opened, the purpose of which is to assist those who have learned the truth about their birth or are trying to find real biological relatives outside the country. Many historians and researchers are also trying to raise the part of the veil that hides information about where thousands of innocent babies and children, stolen from their true parents across Europe, have gone.
The worst thing in all that happened is that the experience of the Third Reich did not go unnoticed. He again and again gets a sequel. Europe is dying out and worst of all is in the European North. Right-wing extremists from Germany and Scandinavia are experiencing a real panic about this. Eugenic ideas of the "great ancestors" do not give them peace of mind, like the desire, to see themselves as the rulers of the world and the rulers of human destinies. In the 2004 year, the forty-eight-year-old lawyer from Hamburg Jürgen Reiger, who is of the extreme right, decided to continue the terrible experiment.
For raising children of the pure Aryan race, he acquired an estate of six hundred and fifty hectares in central Sweden. The money for the purchase was taken from the fund of the SS man Wilhelm Teyten, who had grown rich in the post-war years in exchange speculations. Lonely "Nazis" and young couples who have passed the ideological and racial selection, come here from all over Europe. Very soon the first results of the work of the "Nazi horse" will be known.
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