Posted on 11/04/2006 8:57:50 PM PST by txroadkill
Folker Heinicke always had the feeling that something about his upbringing just wasn't right.
Being raised in a German home full of wealth and privilege did not dull his notions that something was missing, but it would be decades before he would learn the full truth: he was the child of a Nazi program to strengthen the German race with Aryan blood.
He and other children — known as "Lebensborn Kinder" or "source of life" kids — were the product of parents chosen for their traits to breed Hitler's idealized blue-eyed, blonde-haired Aryan race.
For the last four years, Heinicke and about 40 other children raised in the Nazi program have met to support each other. On Saturday for the first time, they told their stories in public, swapping tales of aunts who turned out to be mothers, ice-cold adoptive parents who slid into alcoholism and the joy at finding a blood relative who embraced them as a member of their family.
"There was always the feeling that something wasn't quite right," said Heinicke, who was stolen from present-day Ukraine by the Nazis. "It happens when you have no mother, no father, no roots."
Heinicke's parents told him when he was a teenager that he was adopted but did not reveal the full truth about his background. Later in life, he started exploring irregularities in his birth certificate that led him to other questions, eventually uncovering that he had passed through a Lebensborn home. He discovered his true identity but has yet to find any of his relatives.
Others like Heinicke were born outside the program and taken as toddlers from parents in lands the Germans overran during World War II, then given to a German family to raise.
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... und to compete in ze powerlifting and mathematics contests!
ON THE NET..
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Lebensborn+Kinder%22&btnG=Google+Search
http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&q=%22Lebensborn+Kinder%22&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&filter=0&sa=N
... und to compete in ze powerlifting and mathematics contests!
Hahahahaha! Lol! This is by far the funnierst line I have read this week! Ouch... my stomach hurts from laughing...
Soon the eugenics fans will engineer and clone our descendants,,,if they get their way.
I love the headline lol. I dont think this is not exactly a secret program. I guess it might have been secret in the 40's but good grief I have seen the one hour special on this on the history channel 7 or 8 times
I'm familiar with the feeling. I was supposed to be born into a family of enormous wealth and privilege but I was swapped in the hospital and given to a family that made me do chores, eat what was put in front of me, subsist on a tiny allowance, get satisfactory grades in school, be polite to adults, etc. etc. (These feelings really bothered me from the time I was 12 until I was about 18.)
I don't think it was secret at all. IIRC, the Nazis advertised it. They had the movie reels of the Lebensborn houses.
You learn something every night:
"Germany was not the only country with Lebensborn homes, of the other occupies countries in Europe, Norway had the most with up to nine homes functioning. There were three homes in Poland, two in Austria, and one each in Belgium, Holland, France, Luxembourg and Denmark."
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~jhs3866/
I don't think they advertised the kidnappings though.
"I was supposed to be born into a family of enormous wealth and privilege but I was swapped in the hospital and given to a family that made me do chores, eat what was put in front of me, subsist on a tiny allowance, get satisfactory grades in school, be polite to adults, etc. etc"
I am certain and I know that I must be your brother! Please, tell me, have you managed to find our real parents yet!
ROTFLMAO! I'm closing in on them even as we speak. They promised to call as soon as they get back from G'stad!
Hurry brother! Keep me appraised of your progress! I have been living on the street and only managed to find you by chance after wandering into this Nigerian internet cafe while seeking scraps of food!
If you could be so good as to help me until you find our rich parents I will give you the name of my lawyer for bonafides! Any money orders may be sent in care of my bank!
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