The SS Race and Settlement Main Office was the organization responsible for "safeguarding the racial purity of the SS" within Nazi Germany.
SS christening of a child born through the RuSHA's Lebensborn program in 1936
Babies born during the SS Lebensborn program in 1943
Some of the 14 defendants in the RuSHA Trial at Nuremberg read the indictments against them in July 1947.
Bundesarchiv Bild 119 2179, Walter Richard Darré
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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
SS Race and Settlement Main Office
…to ensure her racial purity. With time, the marriage laws became less strict. Thereafter, in December 1935 Himmler ordered the RuSHA to establish the Lebensborn network of maternity homes, whose purpose was "to accommodate and look after racially and genetically valuable expectant mothers." The RuSHA increasingly…
Kidnapping of Polish children during the Nazi-German resettlement operation in Zamość county
Polish children in Nazi-German labour camp in Dzierżązna near Zgierz