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Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was a secret, SS -initiated, state -registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics (also called "racial hygiene" by some eugenicists).
Sep 29, 2020 · In what ways did the Lebensborn program reflect Nazi racial ideology? How did it reflect Nazi theories of eugenics? What does the Lebensborn program reveal about Nazi attitudes toward women? What effects did World War II have on the development of the Lebensborn program?
- Germany Seeks A Way to Save Itself from Disastrous Population Decline
- The Lebensborn Program Tries to Redefine Motherhood
- Lebensborn Expands Beyond Germany
- Destruction and Chaos in The Final Days of The Lebensborn Program
Lebensborn began as the solution to a problem: Germany was facing a demographic catastrophe. World War I had decimated the country’s young male population. Nearly 2,000,000 German soldiers were never coming home— a loss that had dire consequences for not only the years immediately following 1918 but the next decades as well. Those soldiers would ne...
In 1935, Himmler began a propaganda campaign inviting any unwed mother who fit the racial profile to give birth inside a Lebensborn home. It was an ambitious pledge, as it sought to turn a centuries-old attitude about unwed mothers on its head. No longer was having a child out of wedlock a source of shame — instead, the Nazi regime would celebrate ...
The German Reich was doing its best to make motherhood into an Olympic event, issuing a Mother’s Cross of Honor in three classes: bronze, silver, and gold. The lowest rank required a woman to conceive and raise at least four children, while the highest honor recognized a woman who had given birth to eight or more. Those who bore the Mother’s Cross ...
As the tide of the war turned in the Allies’ favor, the S.S. leadership grew desperate. Himmler now declared that every S.S. soldier should father at least one child before going off to war. He assured the soldiers that while they fought, the mothers and babies would be cared for in a Lebensborn home. But the new patriotic attitude toward sex was a...
Lebensborn. Der Lebensborn e. V. war in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ein von der SS getragener, staatlich geförderter Verein, dessen Ziel es war, auf der Grundlage der nationalsozialistischen Rassenhygiene und Gesundheitsideologie die Erhöhung der Geburtenziffer „ arischer “ Kinder herbeizuführen.
The Nazi regime sought to racially reshape German society. As part of this effort, the Nazis created the Lebensborn program. The program encouraged so-called “Aryan” Germans deemed “hereditarily healthy” to have children.
Lebensborn provided support for expectant mothers, wed or unwed, by providing a home and the means to have their children in safety and comfort. The first Lebensborn home was opened in 1936 in Steinhoering, a tiny village not far from Munich.
Feb 22, 2023 · The Children of the Nazis’ Genetic Project. Across Europe, some adoptees have had to face a dark realization about their origins. By Valentine Faure. Children at a Lebensborn home in Germany ...
