![]() ![]() Many of these facilities were established in confiscated houses and former nursing homes owned by Jews. The first home outside of Germany opened in Norway in 1941. The first Lebensborn home (known as "Heim Hochland") opened in 1936, in Steinhöring, a tiny village not far from Munich. When dealing with non-SS members, parents and children were usually examined by SS doctors before admission. In case the mothers wanted to give up the children, the program also had orphanages and an adoption service. The program allowed them to give birth secretly away from home without social stigma. The programme also 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 classified as "racially valuable". Initially the programme 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. ![]() ![]() Gregor Ebner.Ĭhristening of a Lebensborn child, c. were SS-Standartenführer Max Sollmann and SS-Oberführer Dr. ![]() The Lebensborn office was part of SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt ( SS Race and Settlement Main Office) until 1938, when it was transferred to Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS (Personal Staff of the Reichführer-SS), i.e. In 1939, membership stood at 8,000, of which 3,500 were SS leaders. The application for admission must be filed prior to 23 September 1936. It is the honorable duty of all leaders of the central bureau to become members of the organisation "Lebensborn e.V.". Placement and care of racially, biologically and hereditarily valuable pregnant women, who, after thorough examination of their and the progenitor's families by the Race and Settlement Central Bureau of the SS, can be expected to produce equally valuable children.Support racially, biologically and hereditarily valuable families with many children.The organisation "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: The organisation "Lebensborn e.V." serves the SS leaders in the selection and adoption of qualified children. On 13 September 1936, Heinrich Himmler wrote the following to members of the SS: Located in Munich, the organization was partly an office within the Schutzstaffel (SS) responsible for certain family welfare programs, and partly a society for Nazi leaders. stands for eingetragener Verein or registered association), meaning "fount of life", was founded on 12 December 1935, to counteract falling birth rates in Germany, and to promote Nazi eugenics. During the war, many children were kidnapped from their parents and judged by Aryan criteria for their suitability to be raised in Lebensborn homes, and fostered by German families.Īt the Nuremberg Trials, much direct evidence was found of the kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany, across Ukraine and Poland during the period 1939–1945. It originally excluded children born from unions between common soldiers and foreign women, because there was no proof of ' racial purity' on both sides. It included the selection of "racially worthy" orphans for adoption and care for children born from Aryan women who had been in relationships with SS members. Initially set up in Germany in 1935, Lebensborn expanded into several occupied European countries with Germanic populations during the Second World War. Abortion was legalised (and, more commonly, endorsed) by the Nazis for disabled and non- Germanic children, but strictly punished otherwise. The Cross of Honour of the German Mother was given to the women who bore the most Aryan children. Lebensborn was established by Heinrich Himmler, and provided welfare to its mostly unmarried mothers, encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women at their maternity homes, and mediated adoption of children by likewise "racially pure" and "healthy" parents, particularly SS members and their families. (literally: "Fount of Life") was an SS-initiated, state-supported, 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). ![]()
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