HeavenlyPossum on Nostr: During its reign of terror, Nazi Germany implemented an effort to encourage ...
During its reign of terror, Nazi Germany implemented an effort to encourage reproduction by “racially pure” Germans called the “Lebensborn” program.
Part of this program included the kidnapping of children from conquered territories who met the Nazis’ arbitrary phenotypical qualifications for racial superiority—things blue-eyed and blond-haired. Unlike other members of their communities, who were destined for enslavement or mass murder, the Nazis believed these children could be adopted out to German parents and incorporated into German society.
(Few things emphasize the nonsensical bullshit of Nazi racial theories than this sort of arbitrary selection of “pure” children from “subhuman” communities.)
The Nazis kidnapped tens of thousands of children, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, from communities they conquered—Czechia, Poland, Russia, etc. They deliberately destroyed records at the end of the war, so many of the children who survived were never identified.
After the war, during the Nürenberg Trials, this action was correctly identified as an *act of genocide.*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
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Part of this program included the kidnapping of children from conquered territories who met the Nazis’ arbitrary phenotypical qualifications for racial superiority—things blue-eyed and blond-haired. Unlike other members of their communities, who were destined for enslavement or mass murder, the Nazis believed these children could be adopted out to German parents and incorporated into German society.
(Few things emphasize the nonsensical bullshit of Nazi racial theories than this sort of arbitrary selection of “pure” children from “subhuman” communities.)
The Nazis kidnapped tens of thousands of children, and perhaps hundreds of thousands, from communities they conquered—Czechia, Poland, Russia, etc. They deliberately destroyed records at the end of the war, so many of the children who survived were never identified.
After the war, during the Nürenberg Trials, this action was correctly identified as an *act of genocide.*
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
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