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Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was a secret, SS-initiated, state-registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics (also called "racial hygiene" by some eugenicists).
In Allied-occupied Germany, after much debate about whether this law should be repealed for its Nazi roots or if it should be kept for the moment, after excising its most odious clauses, to protect the German food supply, in 1947 the Allied Control Council decided to repeal it and to regulate the transfer of forests and farms. On the occasion ...
Rutka moved with her family to the southern Polish city of Będzin, from whence her paternal grandparents hailed. Following the German invasion of Poland, while in the Będzin Ghetto, Rutka Laskier, age 14, wrote a 60-page diary in Polish, chronicling several months of her life under the Nazi rule in 1943. Her diary remained in the hands of ...
In November 1938, following Kristallnacht in Nazi-ruled Germany, the House of Commons approved a measure to allow the entry into Britain of refugees younger than 17, provided they had a place to stay and a warranty of £50 (equivalent to £4,033 in 2023) [22] was deposited per person for their eventual return to their own country. [23]
The Nazis: A Warning from History is a 1997 BBC documentary film series that examines Adolf Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power in Germany, their zenith, their decline and fall, and the consequences of their reign. It featured archive footage and interviews with eyewitnesses and was shown in six episodes.
Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival is a memoir by Daniel Finkelstein. It was first published in June 2023 in the United Kingdom by William Collins , [ 1 ] and as Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin, and the Miraculous Survival of My Family by Doubleday in the United States in September 2023. [ 2 ]
Authorities say Blaze's killer was a neo-Nazi, a member of a small violent hate group called "Atomwaffen," whose beliefs were deeply anti-LGBTQ + as well as virulently antisemitic. The killer is ...
German childhood in World War II describes how the Second World War, as well as experiences related to it, [1] directly or indirectly impacted the life of children born in that era. In Germany, these children became known as Kriegskinder ( war children ), a term that came into use due to a large number of scientific and popular science ...