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Lebensborn (Fount of Life, in German) was a child welfare and relocation program initiated by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to aid the racial heredity of the Third Reich. The program was implemented in Germany and certain parts of occupied Europe.
After World War II it was reported that the objective of the program was a large-scale systematic eugenic human breeding programme to create a master race of "racially pure" Aryans.[1]
tain parts of occupied Europe.
After World War II it was reported that the objective of the program was a large-scale systematic eugenic human breeding programme to create a master race of "racially pure" Aryans.[1]
Background
The Lebensborn e. V. (eingetragener Verein, "registered association") was founded on December 12, 1935, in part as a response to
declining birth rates in Germany. Located in Munich, the organization was partly an office within the Schutzstaffel (SS) and responsible for certain family welfare programs, and partly a society for Nazi
leaders. The purpose of the program was to provide incentives to encourage Germans, especially SS members, to have more children.
On September 13, 1936, Himmler wrote the following to members of SS [1]:
The organization "Lebensborn e. V." serves the SS leaders in the selection and adoption
of qualified children. The organization "Lebensborn e. V." is under my personal direction, is part of the race and settlement
central bureau of the SS, and has the following obligations:
- (1) aid for racially and biologically-hereditarily valuable families
- (2) the accommodation of racially and biologically-hereditarily valuable mothers in
appropriate homes, etc.
- (3) care of the children of such families
- (4) care of the mothers
It
is the honorable duty of all leaders of the central bureau to become members of the organization "Lebensborn e. V.". The application
for admission must be filed prior to 23/9/1936.
In 1939, membership stood at 8,000 , of which 3,500 were SS leaders with mandatory membership
[2]. The Lebensborn office was part of SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt (SS Office of
Race and Settlement) until 1938, when it was transferred to Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS (Personal Staff
of the Reich Leader SS), ie. directly overseen by Himmler. Leaders of Lebensborn e. V. were SS-Standartenführer Max Sollmann
and SS-Oberführer Dr. Gregor Ebner.
[edit] Implementation
Initially the program served as a welfare institution for wives of SS officers; the
organization ran facilities, primarily maternity homes, where women could give birth or get help with family matters. Furthermore,
the program accepted unmarried women who were either pregnant or had already given birth and were in need of aid, provided
that both the woman and the father of the child were racially valuable. Later such facilities also served as temporary homes,
orphanages and as an adoption service. When dealing with non-SS members, parents and children were usually examined by SS
doctors before admittance.
The first Lebensborn home (known as Heim Hochland) opened in 1936 in Steinhöring, a
tiny village not far from Munich. The first home outside of Germany opened in Norway in 1941.
While Lebensborn e. V. established facilities in several occupied countries, activities
were concentrated around Germany, Norway and the occupied North-Eastern Europe, mainly Poland. The main focus in occupied
Norway was aiding children born by German soldiers and Norwegian women; in North-Eastern Europe the organization, in addition
to services provided to SS members, engaged in the relocation of children, mostly orphans, to families in Germany.
Lebensborn e. V. had facilities, or planned to, in the following countries (some were
merely field offices):
- Germany: 11
- Austria: 3
- North-Eastern occupied Europe (Poland): 3
- Norway: 9 (or as many as 15)
- Denmark: 2
- France: 1 (February, 1944 - August, 1944)
- Belgium: 1 (March, 1943 - September, 1944)
- The Netherlands: 1
- Luxembourg: 1
About 8,000 children were born in Lebensborn homes in Germany, and another 8,000 in
Norway. Elsewhere the total number of births was much lower. For more information about Lebensborn in Norway, see War children.
[edit] Post-war trial
After the war the branch of the Lebensborn organization operating in North-Eastern Europe
was accused of kidnapping children deemed racially valuable in order to resettle them with German families. However, of approximately
10,000 foreign-born children located in the American-controlled area of Germany after the war, in the trial of the leaders of the Lebensborn organization (United States of America v. Ulrich Greifelt,
et al.), the Court found that only 340 had been handled by Lebensborn e. V. The accused were therefore acquitted on charges
of kidnapping.
The Court did find ample evidence of an existing kidnapping/forced relocation program
of children in North-Eastern Europe, but indicated that these activities were carried out by individuals who were not members
of Lebensborn. Exactly how many children were relocated by Lebensborn or other organizations remains unknown due to the destruction
of archives by SS members prior to fleeing the advancing Allied forces. From the trial's transcript: [3]
The prosecution has failed to prove with the requisite certainty the participation of
Lebensborn, and the defendants connected therewith in the kidnapping program conducted by the Nazis. While the evidence has
disclosed that thousands upon thousands of children were unquestionably kidnapped by other agencies or organizations and brought
into Germany, the evidence has further disclosed that only a small percentage of the total number ever found their way into
Lebensborn. And of this number only in isolated instances did Lebensborn take children who had a living parent. The majority
of those children in any way connected with Lebensborn were orphans of ethnic Germans.
As a matter of fact, it is quite clear from the evidence that Lebensborn sought to avoid
taking into its homes, children who had family ties; and Lebensborn went to the extent of making extensive investigations
where the records were inadequate, to establish the identity of a child and whether it had family ties. When it was discovered
that the child had a living parent, Lebensborn did not proceed with an adoption, as in the case of orphans, but simply allowed
the child to be placed in a German home after an investigation of the German family for the purpose of determining the good
character of the family and the suitability of the family to care for and raise the child.
Lebensborn made no practice of selecting and examining foreign children. In all instances
where foreign children were handed over to Lebensborn by other organizations after a selection and examination, the children
were given the best of care and never ill-treated in any manner.
It is quite clear from the evidence that of the numerous organizations operating in
Germany who were connected with foreign children brought into Germany, Lebensborn was the one organization which did everything
in its power to adequately provide for the children and protect the legal interests of the children placed in its care.
Upon the evidence submitted, the defendant Sollmann is found not guilty on counts one
and two of the indictment.
In Norway the Lebensborn organization handled approximately 250 adoptions. In most of
these cases the mothers had agreed to the adoption, though not all were informed that their child would be sent to Germany.
The Norwegian government brought back all but 80 of these children after the war. The Norwegian Lebensborn records are intact,
the majority stored at the The National Archival Services of Norway.
[edit] Post-war sensationalism
Himmler's effort to secure a racially pure Greater Germany, the classification of Lebensborn
as one of Himmler's race programs and sloppy journalism on the subject in the early years after the war seems to have marked
Lebensborn as one of the frontiers of Himmler's race battle. In particular, the allegation of an attempt to create a master race through supervised breeding have stuck with Lebensborn and have reached a wider audience
over the years.
Until the last days of the war, the mothers and the children got the best treatment
available, including food, even though many others in the area were starving. Because of this, once the war ended many townspeople
turned on the women, beating them, cutting off their hair, and running them out of the community.
The first stories of Lebensborn involvement in a master race plan can be found in the
German magazine Revue, which ran a series on the subject in the 1950s. On January 13, 1961, the German movie Der
Lebensborn (also known as Ordered to Love (US) and Fountain of Life (International)), produced by Artur
Brauner, was released, later to gain worldwide circulation. The movie purported that young girls were forced to mate in Nazi
camps. [4] In the decades to follow the subject has been revisited both by film makers and in the
printed press. Examples:
CBS Drama Explores Nazis' Plan For A `Master Race, The Seattle Times -
October 19, 1986
Of all the many terrible aspects of the Nazi regime, one of the least familiar was the party's plan to
create a Master Race through lebensborn. This was a program intended to mate the most Aryan of German girls with the
most Aryan of S.S. members.
Nazi records found for breeding scheme, The Dallas Morning News - November
26, 1999
Thousands of Germans who were born as a result of one of the Nazis' efforts to create an Aryan "master race" have
at last been given hope of tracing their parents - 54 years after the scheme was hurriedly abandoned at the end of the second
world war.
How the Evil Began, and How It Spread, Newsweek - March 20, 2000
The
Lebensborn program wasn't a sudden decision by Hitler and his cronies. It was part of a much larger Nazi policy on racial
purity that evolved over many years ...
Recent movies: Lebensborn (US, 1997), Pramen zivota (Czech, 2000; also
known as Spring of Life (US, 2000))
[edit] Open meeting
In November of 2006 an open meeting took place between several Lebensborn children,
with the intent of dispelling myths and encouraging those affected to investigate their origins.[2]
[edit] See also
- Catrine Clay & Michael Leapman: Master race: the Lebensborn experiment in Nazi
Germany. Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. ISBN 0-340-58978-7. (German version: Herrenmenschen - Das Lebensborn-Experiment der Nazis. Publisher:
Heyne-TB, 1997)
- "Children of World War II: the Hidden Enemy Legacy." Ed. Kjersti Ericsson and Eva Simonsen.
New York: Berg Publishers, 2005.
- Marc Hillel and Clarissa Henry: Of Pure Blood. Published 1976. ISBN 0-07-028895-X (French version: Au nom de la race. Publisher: Fayard)
- Dorothee Schmitz-Köster: Deutsche Mutter bist du bereit - Alltag im Lebensborn.
Publisher: Aufbau-Verlag, 2002.
- Gisela Heidenreich: Das endlose Jahr. Die langsame Entdeckung der eigenen Biographie
- ein Lebensbornschicksal. Published: 2002.
- Georg Lilienthal: Der Lebensborn e. V. - Ein Instrument nationalsozialistischer
Rassenpolitik. Publisher: Fischer, 1993 (possibly republished in 2003).
- Kare Olsen: Vater: Deutscher. - Das Schicksal der norwegischen Lebensbornkinder
und ihrer Mütter von 1940 bis heute. Published 2002. (the authoritative resource on Lebensborn in Norway and available
in Norwegian: Krigens barn: De norske krigsbarna og deres mødre. Published: Aschehoug 1998. ISBN 82-03-29090-6)
- Jörg Albrecht: Rohstoff für Übermenschen. Published: Artikel in Zeit-Punkte
3/2001 zum Thema Biomedizin, S. 16-18.
- Benz, W.; Graml, H.; Weiß, H.(1997): Enzyklopädie des Nationalsozialismus. Published:
Digitale Bibliothek, CD-ROM, Band 25, Directmedia GmbH, Berlin.
- Trials of War Criminals - Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control
Council Law No. 10. Vol. 5: United States v. Ulrich Greifelt, et al. (Case 8: 'RuSHA Case'). Publisher: US Government
Printing Office, District of Columbia, 1950.
- Thompson, Larry V. Lebensborn and the Eugenics Policy of the Reichsführer-SS.
Central European History 4 (1971): 54-77.
- Wältermann, Dieter. The Functions and Activities of the Lebensborn Organization
Within the SS, the Nazi Regime, and Nazi Ideology. The Honors Journal II (1985: 5-23).
- Huston, Nancy, Lignes de faille, Actes Sud, ISBN 2-7609-2606-4, 2006
[edit] References
- ^ Eddy, Melissa. "Documents Shed Light on Secret Nazi Programs." May 6, 2007 (AP).
- ^ Nazi 'master race' children meet, BBC News, November 4, 2006
[edit] External links
Finnish war children
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During World War II some 70,000 Finnish children (Finnish: sotalapset) were evacuated from Finland to Scandinavia, chiefly to Sweden. Most were evacuated during the Continuation War to ease the situation for their parents who set out to rebuild their homes in the re-conquered
Karelia returning from the evacuation of Finnish Karelia. The first surge of evacuees arrived, however, during the Winter War when the Finns had reasons to fear a humanitarian catastrophe following the expected Soviet occupation.
In retrospect, the evacuation has been considered psychologically flawed, as the separations
turned out to inflict a far greater damage on the evacuees than the damage suffered by those children who had remained by
their parents in Finland. In comparison to Finland's approximately 23,000 military casualties in the Winter War, the 66,000
in the Continuation war, and the total of 2,000 civilian casualties – and the roughly equally many seriously wounded
– the war children were, of course, not physically injured, let alone killed. However, their number is of about the
same size as that of the war invalids, and many of them feel their sufferings to be ignored.
After the war Finland experienced times of economic hardship, and also substantial insecurity
with regard to the Soviet Union's plans for Finland, which resulted in the delay of the return of the children for several
years. Ultimately about 20% of the war children stayed with their foster families after the war, who often adopted them, which
spared them another traumatic separation. Many more returned to Sweden as adults, when the prolonged post-war hardship in
Finland pushed large contingents of unemployed Finns to Sweden's booming economy in the 1950s–60s.
The exact figures remain unknown.
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