[Pt.1] The Nazi “Birth Program” Lebensborn: How the SS Tried to Engineer a Generation

Описание: A war built on conquest was also a war built on bodies—especially newborns.
Lebensborn wasn’t a rumor or a myth: it was an SS-run system designed to weaponize birth itself.
Inside Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, Heinrich Himmler and the SS fused eugenics with bureaucracy—turning pregnancy, childbirth, and adoption into instruments of racial policy. From the first Lebensborn home at Steinhöring to the program’s expansion into occupied Europe, the regime pursued a “racially valuable” future while the war consumed a generation of men. The story runs through paperwork and medical exams, secrecy for unmarried mothers, SS-controlled maternity homes, and adoption pipelines—then spirals into the darker territory of forced identity changes and the kidnapping and “Germanization” of children in occupied regions.
This documentary episode follows the homefront machinery behind Nazi population policy: how the Third Reich tried to manage demographics, how ideology shaped women’s lives and children’s identities, and why the Lebensborn legacy lingered for decades—especially in places like Norway, where “war children” faced stigma long after 1945.
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