17. A Human Selective Breeding and Child Kidnapping Program
When the Nazis overran much of Europe during WWII, German occupiers were encouraged to breed with women from Nordic populations. The offspring were often birthed in Lebensborn clinics, which were scattered across Europe, then raised as Germans. Thus, the wombs of acceptably Aryan-Nordic women from across Europe were utilized to increase Germany’s “Aryan stock”. The breeding program in occupied Europe was quite successful: more Lebensborn children were born in Norway during five years of German occupation, than were born in Germany during the program’s entire ten-year span.
Another part of the Lebensborn program involved straightforward kidnapping of children. Children who looked like pure Aryans were kidnapped by the hundreds of thousands from across Europe, and taken back to Germany. There, they were adopted by the same types who adopted the SS-bred children, and Germanized.
