The Lebensborn Program

Accordingly, Hitler began eradicating all nationalities that he considered second-rate to Germans. Many believe that the depopulation technique was the “German viewpoint of the Nazi government, which wanted to create a "master race" of Aryan people. After January 1933, the Jews were placed in concentration camps which started the Holocaust” (Katz, 1994).

Hitler believed Germans were racially superior and deemed Jews and other ‘undesirables’ a threat and ‘impurity’ to the community. In 1933, before Nazi Germany came into

“When babies were born in the camp, the doctors and nurses would usually kill the baby in front of the mother, 130 babies and mothers were gassed in March 1945.” (“Ravensbrück Concentration Camp” (Germany) 2). Some children were thrown in sealed rooms until they died. Some children were even cremated, buried alive, poisoned, strangled, or drowned in Ravensbruck. Although, most of the women got sick.

He believed that “Aryans” were the purified race. He pronounced that his race must remain pure in order to one day take over the world. For Hitler, the ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed, and tall. Although Hitler was not even close to looking like an Aryan, he showed the love he had for them. His mind-set was very racist and discriminatory. He had the idea of a “master race” and he discriminated anyone that wasn’t a part of it. He believed that the Germanic people were the only purified race and everyone else was filthy. The Nazis began to put their ideology into practice with the support of German scientists who believed that the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered "inferior." The only way Hitler could carry on his “master race” was by getting rid of every non-aryan. He went on a hunting spree for every Jew, Gypsy, homo-sexual, etc. He thought they were not pure and didn’t belong on earth, and this expresses the hatred and how discriminatory he was towards anyone that wasn’t German. By doing this, the Nazis grew in power and had the German society following them, which shows the control and power of Hitler’s words and actions. When Hitler and the Nazis came to power, these beliefs became the government ideology and were spread in publicly displayed posters, on the radio, in movies, in classrooms, and in newspapers. Hitler traveled in planes from city to city, spreading the word of the Aryan-race. He spoke to radio stations, educated children in school, posted pictures and many posters, but he mostly gave brainwashing speeches that tricked most of the German Society to follow him. He used blind obedience to grow his idea. Although most Germans followed out of fear, others seemed to resist and go against

One of Adolf Hitler’s main points throughout his book was how Germans are superior to every other race and how Nazi’s should be in complete power. He believed that the Aryan race was perfect, and even encouraged women to bear as many children of this race as they could. He even goes to the extent where he describes what the perfect person looks like, which consisted of pale skin, blue eyes, etc. With this, he concluded that Jews and Gypsies were the most racially inferior with full plans to eliminate them. Writing this book while in jail, being incarcerated for trying to seize southern Germany, he must have been extremely confident

One of Hitler’s many ambitions for Germany was to achieve total Aryan supremacy. Hitler wanted to make all Germans perfect physical specimens. All of them tall and strong with blue eyes and blond hair though he himself was short, with brown eyes and hair. Hitler claimed that the Germans were the purest Aryans and therefore superior to all other peoples. Hitler made sure that all Germans knew this, he told the German people what they wanted to hear, that they were in fact the master race and that they were superior to any other persons. Although many were opposed to Hitler’s idea of Aryan supremacy the German people supported him enthusiastically regardless.

“Every racial crossing leads inevitably sooner or later to the decline of the hybrid product as long as the higher element of this crossing is itself still existent in any kind of racial unity. The danger for the hybrid product is eliminated only at the moment when the last higher racial element is bastardized.” (Manheim). This quote is important because before concentration camps were created, this quote shows in the future about how Hitler wanted to exterminate the “un-pure” race. Through Hitler’s eyes the basis of social judgment was a three-part categorization of human beings. Aryans were at the top and they were really the only ones, in his mind, that were able to create civilizations. They were classified as culture creating. The next category was culture bearing which were people like the Latinas and Asians that could only maintain culture. The culture destroying people, Hitler believed were the Non- Aryans, which included Jews, Gays, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses, Blacks, and even the Handicapped. He believed that they could only destroy civilizations and that Germany had been infected with non-Aryans. He felt like they were sub-human and that they could only threaten his perfect race. So to exterminate this imperfect race he put them in concentration camps, exiled them on the street, or forced them to work on a slave farms. Most of them ended up in concentration camps. Above the gates of all concentration

One of the methods of dehumanization was separating families.”Men to the left, women to the right”(29). Hitler didn’t care about how the Jews felt. Jews were treated like force breeding farms for animals. They did not have a lot of food and bad living conditions. “The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions”(29). Jews weren’t considered humans and so they didn’t get to have human like possessions. Everything they owned was just taken away from them and they never got to see it again.

Disabled Germans were killed in gassings. Midwives, physicians, and guardians of children with severe birth defects were supposed to register the defected child while three expert physicians would decide whether the child lived or died, usually not even seeing the child in person. This was all part to create the “master Aryan race.” 5,000 children were killed in the clinics and state hospitals they were brought to once registered. The Nazis wanted to keep the Euthanasia Program (the program Hitler was using to kill these helpless children) a secret, so the Nazis sent the children’s families made up ways of how their child died. In October of 1939, Hitler started Operation T-4, which was where adult men and women who were “incurable” were moved to carbon monoxide chambers and gassed. 70,000 of these innocent people were lost (Final Solutions).

From 1933 to 1945, Germanyś government was led by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. During this time, they carried out a method to onslaught all European Jews. Because the Germans placed themselves as the superior people, they decided that Jews would be punished only because of their religion/race. In Hitlerś eyes, the only way for survival was to be a part of the ¨master race¨. The ¨master race¨ was to always stay ¨pure¨ in hope that one day, they would take over the world.

Hitler wanted to create a pure race that suited his ideologies. A perfect race with blue eyes and blonde hair. This idea is well defined when Mark’s Mother says, “ A pure Aryan race, so he had to get rid of anyone who didn’t fit his idea, anyone who was different… “. – Pg 23

The program that became known as Lebensborn was Hitler’s attempt to create a master race and ensure the future of Germany. It was illegal for Aryan women to have abortions. These unmarried women had to pass a purity test. Unmarried women that were deemed perfect were encouraged to have children with racially “pure” men who were often SS officers. When these children were born, the mothers would often never see the children again. These children were given a Nazi education and placed in Nazi foster homes all throughout the occupied areas of Europe. To ensure the future of Germany, the files that contained information on the parents and children were kept secret, secure, and were guarded separately from other birth records of the time.

His further announcement carried a very clear message to those who refused showing the support for Nazi party. Such people would either die off or pushed away by the new and young generation. What’s more is that becoming Nazi meant trying to become an anti-Semite as well. Shortly afterwards we could see the establishment of a vast network of community camps across Germany. These became fundamental to protect Germany from other racial parasites. There was also racial propaganda that polluted German schools which directly affected psyche of children. Nazi propaganda was produced to manipulate the public, most notably based on writings from people such as Eugen Fischer, Fritz Lenz and Erwin Baur in the book Foundations of Human Heredity Teaching and Racial Hygiene. Further in 1933 two Nazi theorists, Johann von Leers and Achim Gercke, both proposed that the Jewish Question could be solved by resettling Jews in Madagascar or elsewhere in Africa or South America. However, this idea quickly became

At the third created camp in Ravensbrück, “an estimated 50,000 women died” (qtd by

Women in Nazi Germany is based upon the Nazi regime’s attitudes, policies, and ideologies concerning the role of women in the public and private sphere. Stephenson argues that the women of Nazi Germany should be studied in depth, including the support they gave to the regime, the treatment they received, and the different roles they played. However, she argues they should not be studied separately from the other happenings at the time, but instead, they should be incorporated into the history just as the men are. This book reviews their roles, functions, and how they were controlled by the Nazi leadership, and also their lives in pre-Nazi Germany.