This column is adapted from Angeniet Berkers’ photo book “Lebensborn — Birth Politics in the Third Reich.” In wartime, it is difficult to think in terms less polarizing than good and bad, guilt and ...

t the small elementary school in Jouy-sous-les-Côtes, in northeastern France, Gisèle Marc knew the rumor about her: that her parents were not her real parents, and her real mother must have been a ...

Earlier this month, Electronic Arts announced one of the most anticipated games of the year: Battlefield 5, a shooter that, at least in its trailer, focuses on the glory and adrenaline of World War II ...

My Child Lebensborn is based in real history. It’s not a often spoken or known of given the awful nature of the Norwegian events. “The Norwegian people treated our own children like enemies, because ...

Last week we saw the ballyhooed introduction of Call of Duty: WWII, a game that follows videogaming's generic code for war stories. Mostly, they are about combat, heroism and the glory of victory. But ...

The Lebensborn programme, meaning spring or source of life, was one of the most secret and incredible projects of the regime in Nazi Germany. Its aim was to give birth to children who were seen as ...

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Between 1935 and 1945, around 10,000 German children and an estimated 9,000 Norwegian children with "Aryan" characteristics of blond hair and blue eyes were born into a Nazi-run programme called ...

Behind the deceptively gentle name Lebensborn was a Nazi program driven by Heinrich Himmler's obsession with racial purity and eugenics. What began under the appearance of maternity care became part ...

Folker Heinicke always had the feeling that something about his upbringing just wasn’t right. Raised in a German home full of wealth and privilege did not dull his notions that something was missing, ...