Lebensborn
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Lebensborn e.V. 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" an
A Lebensborn birth house
Christening of a Lebensborn child, c. 1935–1936, Rhenish Hesse region
Kidnapping of Polish children during the Nazi-German resettlement operation in Zamość county
Polish children in Nazi-German labour camp in Dzierżązna near Zgierz
During World War II, around 200,000 ethnic Polish children as well as an unknown number of children of other Slavic ethnicities from the Soviet Union were abducted from their homes and forcibly transp
Lebensborn
…for their suitability to be raised in Lebensborn homes, and fostered by German families. At the Nuremberg trials, much direct evidence was found of the kidnapping of children by Nazi Germany during the period 1939–1945. The Lebensborn e.V. (e.V. stands for eingetragener Verein or registered association), meaning "fount of life", was founded…
Letter from Lebensborn office to Reichsdeutsche family of Herr Müller in Germany informing that two perfect boys have been found for them to choose one they like. The boys' names have already been Germanized, 18 December 1943.
Czesława Kwoka, one of many Polish children murdered at Auschwitz by the Nazis