The Lebensborn Program Headed by Heinrich Himmler

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Could you imagine yourself being born just to be part of an inferior race than everyone else? Can you picture in your mind how that would feel to find out years later that you were basically created for someone and that you may not even know who your parents even are? That you basically wake up one day realizing that who you thought you were is just lie. The Lebensborn Program was meant to be an advancement of the Reich; however it just turned out to be the foolishness of a ruling dictator and his party. There is a misunderstanding when it comes to the Lebensborn program and what it was. Many people think of the program that it wasn’t just about killing Jews it was to eradicate the genetic ability to come forward and those that were going to breed to do it well. There must be more insight to “The Lebensborn Program:” Heinrich Himmler was head of the SS. He was a secretive man who was perfect for the job of creating the Lebensborn project. It was during the year 1935 in December that the program was created. This was in fact the same year that the “Nuremberg Laws were outlawing intermarriage with Jews and others who were deemed inferior” (The Nazi Party). The birthrate of Germany was decreasing, these made Himmler have a goal to reverse the decline and increase the Germanic population to 120 million. It was during his time that he encouraged SS and Wehrmacht officers to have children with women of Aryan decent. “Himmler believed that these children that were part of this program would then grow up to lead a Nazi nation.” (The Nazi Party)

The Lebensborn program stood for the “fountain of life”, the programs purpose was to offer young girls who were considered “racially pure” the possibility to give birth to a child in secret. The ...

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...nd conscripted into the army, their family names were then Germanized every trace of the children’s heritage was erased” (The Lebensborn organization).

In 1942 the Lebensborn program stretched to welcome non- German mothers. Adolf Hitler then designed a rule that German soldiers were stimulated to fraternize with native women comprehending that all children created would be taken care for. Racially fit women were most often the officer’s girlfriends or the one- night stands of the SS officers. These women were then requested to the Lebensborn homes where they could have their child in the isolation and security.

Works Cited

"THE LEBENSBORN ORGANIZATION." Http://colanmc.siu.edu/. Southern Illinois University, 2013. Web. 12 Apr. 2014.

"The Nazi Party: The "Lebensborn" Program." The "Lebensborn" Program. Jewish Virtual Library, 2014. Web. 12 Apr. 2014.

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