Secret Nazi 'baby farm' children meet
By ALLAN HALL Last updated at 23:56pm on 3rd November 2006
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=414385&in_page_id=1811
Children born on Nazi baby farms who were intended to be the germseed for Hitler's Ayran master race are meeting in public to break a taboo that has lasted more than 60 years.
They are the product of the Lebensborn programme of the S.S., the 'Fountain of Life' scheme that turned racially and idealogically pure S.S. men into studs and blonde, blue-eyed single girls into child-rearing machines for the Fuehrer.
Thousands of such children were born in Lebensborn camps across Europe. They were immediately seperated from their mothers to be brought up in homes where the only religion was Nazism and qualities like mercy and kindness were frowned upon.
Hitler and his S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler believed they were creating a superrace: instead the lack of affection and poor education besides Nazi indoctrination led many to be educationally backward and emotionally crippled.
The results of this genetic engineering experiment have lived in silence, and often shame, for decades. In Norway, where S.S. eugenecists decided the natives had the right qualities to produce Ayran children for the Reich, some still battle through the courts for compensation for postwar humiliation and neglect.
"It is an important issue and it is time that it finally comes to light," said Dagmar Jung, 64, a Lebensborn child whose adoptive parents refused for years to answer her questions about her past.
Today she travels to the eastern German town of Wernigerode, were the Nazis ran the "Harz" Lebensborn home or the first public meeting of the Lebensspuren, or "Traces of Life", association that the children formed last year.
Of its 60 members, nearly two-thirds are Lebensborn children who, now in their 60s, feel a growing need to uncover their past and break one of the last taboos about the Nazi era in Germany.
For the first time, parts of their meeting today will be open to the public. "To this day, many of them suffer from the consequences of secrecy and the Nazi ideologies of race," said Matthias Meissner of Lebensspuren.
Conservative estimates put the number of Lebensborn children in Germany somewhere around 5,500, but exact numbers do not exist.
The Lebensborn programme became known in England during the 1980's when it was revealed that Princess Michael of Kent's father was an S.S. officer involved in the planning of the project.
Mothers and fathers accepted for it were required to prove not only their Aryan qualities, but also the absence of any mental or other genetic illnesses or defects.
See also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BR4t6GoGWk
By ALLAN HALL Last updated at 23:56pm on 3rd November 2006
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=414385&in_page_id=1811
Children born on Nazi baby farms who were intended to be the germseed for Hitler's Ayran master race are meeting in public to break a taboo that has lasted more than 60 years.
They are the product of the Lebensborn programme of the S.S., the 'Fountain of Life' scheme that turned racially and idealogically pure S.S. men into studs and blonde, blue-eyed single girls into child-rearing machines for the Fuehrer.
Thousands of such children were born in Lebensborn camps across Europe. They were immediately seperated from their mothers to be brought up in homes where the only religion was Nazism and qualities like mercy and kindness were frowned upon.
Hitler and his S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler believed they were creating a superrace: instead the lack of affection and poor education besides Nazi indoctrination led many to be educationally backward and emotionally crippled.
The results of this genetic engineering experiment have lived in silence, and often shame, for decades. In Norway, where S.S. eugenecists decided the natives had the right qualities to produce Ayran children for the Reich, some still battle through the courts for compensation for postwar humiliation and neglect.
"It is an important issue and it is time that it finally comes to light," said Dagmar Jung, 64, a Lebensborn child whose adoptive parents refused for years to answer her questions about her past.
Today she travels to the eastern German town of Wernigerode, were the Nazis ran the "Harz" Lebensborn home or the first public meeting of the Lebensspuren, or "Traces of Life", association that the children formed last year.
Of its 60 members, nearly two-thirds are Lebensborn children who, now in their 60s, feel a growing need to uncover their past and break one of the last taboos about the Nazi era in Germany.
For the first time, parts of their meeting today will be open to the public. "To this day, many of them suffer from the consequences of secrecy and the Nazi ideologies of race," said Matthias Meissner of Lebensspuren.
Conservative estimates put the number of Lebensborn children in Germany somewhere around 5,500, but exact numbers do not exist.
The Lebensborn programme became known in England during the 1980's when it was revealed that Princess Michael of Kent's father was an S.S. officer involved in the planning of the project.
Mothers and fathers accepted for it were required to prove not only their Aryan qualities, but also the absence of any mental or other genetic illnesses or defects.
See also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BR4t6GoGWk
