When Himmler's programme wasn't as successful as he had hoped, the Nazis resorted to stealing children from Nazi-occupied territory, bringing them to
When Himmler's programme wasn't as successful as he had hoped, the Nazis resorted to stealing children from Nazi-occupied territory, bringing them to Germany where they would be 'Germanised' through indoctrination. FEICHTENBACH, AUSTRIA. THIS FOREBODING building stands as a reminder of Nazi?s sinister ?Lebensborn? Eugenics programme for breeding the so-called, ?Aryan Pictures show the Wienerwald sanitorium, founded in 1903 near Vienna in Austria by lung doctors Hugo Kraus and Arthur Baer . The medical facility quickly becoming world-famous, with the sanitorium attracted guests from all over the world seeking innovative tuberculosis treatment at this exclusive high-altitude clinic. This all changed when Nazi Germany annexed neighbouring Austria, and the hospital was seized by the Gestapo in 1938 to be repurposed as a Lebensborn home, used for breeding blond blue-eyed children and as a convenient place for top Nazis to send the mothers of their illegitimate children. Meaning ?Fountain of Life?, Lebensborn was an initiative pioneered by Heinrich Himmler in 1935 aiming to raise the birth rate of Aryan children. Himmler succeeded with an estimated 8,000 children resulting from the Lebensborn programme and more than half of them thought to have been brought into the world at this facility. The aim was to provide maternity services to those who the Nazis considered to be ?racially pure? and to attract pregnant, unmarried women with babies fathered by ?approved? men, who would then give up their babies for adoption through the SS. The Wienerwald Sanatorium is one of approximately 33 locations where these atrocities took place. When the programme was not as successful as Himmler had hoped, the Nazis resorted to stealing children from Nazi-occupied territories, transporting them to Germany where they would be forced to become ?Germanised,? adopting a German heritage and rejecting their own. Georg-Michael Jordan (55) from Furth, Germany, is the photogra
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