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Setanta Book Store/Collections/Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich
Setanta Book Store/Collections/Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich

by Angeniet Berkers

Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich

2024

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First edition of Lebensborn - Birth Politics In The Third Reich by Angeniet Berkers (2024)

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On December 12th 1935, a programme was initiated in Germany to provide the Third Reich with the new generation of leaders and future elite for their 1000-year empire: Lebensborn (Source of Life). The birth rate in Germany fell dramatically after World War I, and the Nazis tried to reverse the trend by all possible means. All Germans were called upon to have more children, with the slogan “Give the Führer a child”. Abortion was banned, contraceptives suppressed, and incentives and tax breaks devised for families with children. SS officers were encouraged to procreate as much as possible, including out of wedlock. In this setting, the Lebensborn had a special task: to increase the number of so-called ‘Aryan’ offspring. In several Lebensborn homes spread across Germany and Austria, Norway, Belgium, and France (married or unmarried) women could give birth to their children if they met the requirements of the Aryan race.

The architect behind this plan, Heinrich Himmler, aimed to improve the ‘racial quality’ in the new empire to be built on a National Socialist basis with these blue-eyed, blonde-haired, and light-skinned children. When it turned out the program wasn’t effective enough, thousands of children were kidnapped from Eastern Europe and taken to Germany to be ‘Germanised’.

After the war, the children from these homes and families were often stigmatised and sometimes even mistreated or abused. Many grew up with secrets. Angeniet Berkers (NL) documented the stories of some of these children who are now in their 70s and 80s. In her archive research, she found objects and many documents that show how nationalist ideas permeated the nurseries in an eerily organised way. Lebensborn tells the compelling story of this particular history, focusing on the major events, but especially on the personal consequences for those involved.

With an essay by Dr Ingvill Constanze Ødegaard.

Publisher: The Eriskay Connection

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