Lebensborn breeding program

I have been reading about the Lebensborn breeding program.

"Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was an SS-initiated, state-supported, registered association in Nazi Germany with the goal of raising the birth rate of "Aryan" children of persons classified as "racially pure and healthy" based on Nazi racial hygiene and health ideology. Lebensborn provided welfare to its mostly unmarried mothers, encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women at their maternity homes, and mediated adoption of these children by likewise "racially pure and healthy" parents, particularly SS members and their families. The Cross of Honour of the German Mother was given to the women who bore the most Aryan children. Abortion was illegal at this time.

Initially set up in Germany in 1935, Lebensborn expanded into several occupied European countries with Germanic populations during the Second World War. It included the selection of "racially worthy" orphans for adoption and care for children born from Aryan women who had been in relationships with SS members. It originally excluded children born from unions between common soldiers and foreign women, because there was no proof of racial purity on both sides. During the war, many children were kidnapped from their parents and judged by "aryan" criteria for their suitability to be raised in Lebensborn homes, and fostering by German families."

One of the things that I have read is that after the war, women in occupied Europe who volunteered for this program were prosecuted including head shaving.

The thing that bothers me more is that the children were prosecuted as a reaction to the war. They were shunned and placed in mental asylums. Personally, I do not believe that children should be held accountable for the actions of their parents.

I am wondering what POD would be needed for the Lebensborn children not to pay the price for the actions of their parents.
 
Honestly, short of Nazi Germany surviving somehow I don't see it.

In the eyes of many those kids where essentially the human incarnation of the racial ideology that had just hurted the world so much and has such, peoples common sense kind off flew out of the windows as far as they where concerned.
 
Honestly, short of Nazi Germany surviving somehow I don't see it.

In the eyes of many those kids where essentially the human incarnation of the racial ideology that had just hurted the world so much and has such, peoples common sense kind off flew out of the windows as far as they where concerned.

Pretty much this. There was simply too much anti-nazi rage post war...
 
I can understand the rage since the women had better food and care than the rest of the population.

I wondering if there was an option of sending the women and children to Germany and say 'These are German children and their mothers. You take care of them." At least the children would not be abused. I understand that life as a child in post war Germany was not easy but they would be able to blend in better.
 

Insider

Banned
The point was, they often weren't. A lot of children with "germanic looks" were either handled over by parents in an attempt to save them from starvation, or stolen from their unwilling parents, or outright ripped from their parents dead hands to be sent to Germany where they were to become model Aryans. It was often done with little or no documentation so a lot of those children couldn't be returned to their families (or more often then not, closest surviving family). Note that kids that were abducted could be as old as 12 years old, or as little as 12 months. Polish Government at first had dismissed "stealing of babies" as a rumour, or listed them as dead, only after few chance findings of older children, had believed in the gossips. It is estimated that 200 000 children were stolen.
 
POD would be Adolf Hitler going "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of! How could ANY POLISH child be ARYAN?" Something along those lines, but I don't know that you could actually stop the breeding program of perfect Aryan girls being encouraged to have children with the perfect Aryan soldiers......

Oh, any woman who cooperated with the Germans had her head shaved......not just the ones having babies for them. The ones who were unwilling mistresses were also brutalized when the war was over, even if they did it only to save their families.
 

BigBlueBox

Banned
POD would be Adolf Hitler going "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard of! How could ANY POLISH child be ARYAN?" Something along those lines, but I don't know that you could actually stop the breeding program of perfect Aryan girls being encouraged to have children with the perfect Aryan soldiers......

Oh, any woman who cooperated with the Germans had her head shaved......not just the ones having babies for them. The ones who were unwilling mistresses were also brutalized when the war was over, even if they did it only to save their families.
There were no Lebensborn in Poland. Like OP said, it was only in Germanic countries like the Netherlands and Norway.
 
I was referring to the removal of children who fit "Aryan" criteria and resettling them with Aryan couples, not the program itself.
 
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