Germanization of children: how the Third Reich created a “superman”

The idea of ​​​​creating a “superman” was one of the key pillars of the Nazi ideology of the Third Reich. Naturally, in the sick imagination of the leadership of Nazi Germany, the last one certainly had to be an Aryan.

In order to implement the above idea and transform the Germans into a “super race”, a special organization was even created, called “Lebensborn”. Typically, it was founded by Heinrich Himmler himself.



It is worth noting that, at first glance, the organization looked quite “humane”. A whole network of maternity hospitals was created, which created all the conditions for the birth and care of babies. Moreover, women without husbands could give birth to children here incognito and leave them in the maternity hospital in the care of the state, rather than having an abortion, fearing public condemnation.

It would seem that the initiative was aimed at combating the demographic crisis that began in Germany even before the First World War. However, the devil, as always, is in the details.

The thing is that only completely healthy women with pure Aryan blood could get into the above-mentioned maternity hospitals. Moreover, babies born at Lebensborn were carefully selected. The Nazis killed the sick and weak.

However, in the future, realizing that it would not be possible to create a race of “supermen” in this way, the Reich leadership decided to steal children in the occupied territories. Again, not everyone, but those as close as possible to the Aryan race in appearance.

All stolen children upon arrival in Germany were divided into three groups: suitable for the German nation, acceptable and undesirable.
The first two groups were subjected to re-education and Germanization. “Undesirables” were exterminated or sent to concentration camps.

Today it is impossible to say how many such children were “hijacked” to Nazi Germany. Towards the climax of World War II, Lebensborn destroyed all existing documents.

As a result, in Germany to this day there are charitable organizations that help people who learned that they were kidnapped by the Nazis as children find their relatives.