Angeniet Berkers: Lebensborn – Birth Politics in the Third Reich Fiction Gavan McCormack

Gavan McCormack

352 pages

the children from these homes and families were often stigmatised and sometimes even mistreated or abused

and countless others

Angeniet Berkers: Lebensborn – Birth Politics in the Third Reich Fiction Gavan McCormackOn December 12th 1935, a programme was initiated in Germany to provide the Third Reich with the new generation of leaders and future elite for their 1000 year empire: Lebensborn (Source of Life). The birth rate in Germany fell dramatically after World War I, and the Nazis tried to reverse the trend by all possible means. All Germans were called upon to have more children, with the slogan Give the Fhrer a child. Abortion was banned, contraceptives