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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).
The Lebensborn project was one of most secret and terrifying Nazi projects. Heinrich Himmler founded the Lebensborn project on December 12, 1935, the same year the Nuremberg Laws outlawed intermarriage with Jews and others who were deemed inferior. For decades, Germany’s birthrate was decreasing.
Heinrich Himmler created The "Lebensborn" on December 12th, 1935. The goal of this society ("Registered Society Lebensborn - Lebensborn Eingetragener Verein") was to offer to young girls "racially pure" the possibility to give birth to a child in secret.
Aug 14, 2021 · 85 years of Lebensborn: Arolsen Archives take on collection. Author and journalist Dorothee Schmitz-Köster has spent many years researching and publishing about the Lebensborn homes in which the SS raised thousands of “Aryan” children.
Dec 12, 2020 · Our own holdings on the subject of the “Lebensborn e.V.” are soon to be augmented by the acquisition of the archive created by the author and journalist Dorothee Schmitz-Köster. The fates of some of the children have been clarified.
1. What Was the Lebensborn Program? To say that the powers that be in the Third Reich were obsessed with race and racial purity would be an understatement. Most are familiar with the darkest manifestations of that obsession: the Holocaust and the murder of millions of racial undesirables.
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In December 1935, Heinrich Himmler established an SS agency designated as Lebensborn, or the “Well of Life” society, ordering it to perform a twofold task: to administer welfare assistance to SS families having a large number of racially valuable children; and to extend maternity and child-care facilities to expectant mothers, whether they ...
