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Among the top Nazis, Heinrich Himmler was the leading racial fanatic. As Reichsfuhrer and SS chief, he personally set up the Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) program in 1935 to turn the German population into a superrace through selective breeding. Thousands of carefully selected German women were encouraged to have intercourse with SS men, who were presumed to be among the racial as well as the political elite. Once pregnant, the women were signed into one of twelve special maternity centers, where they received lavish medical and personal care. When one of his "new breed" babies got sick, Himmler would fret...
...most Germans, and to the Al lied judges at Nuremberg who dispensed minor sentences to Lebensborn person nel, that was all there was to Himmler's program. New light is now being cast on a darker and less well-known phase of Lebensborn: the wholesale kidnaping of hundreds of thousands of foreign chil dren for the purpose of adding to Germany's breeding stock...
...wife Clarissa Henry, 36, a French citizen of English Protestant parentage. In a 400-page book on Le-bensborn to be published in France in January and in a stark, 2½%-hour documentary film, the Hillels trace the pro gram's grotesque course. They show that Himmler had become obsessed with the idea of "racial war" and told Lebensborn directors that he wanted "racially acceptable" children in occupied lands brought to the Fatherland to be raised as Germans. "How can we be so cruel as to take a child from its mother?" he asked piously, then answered...
...adoption to "racially valid and ideologically trustworthy" German families. More than 200,000 children were taken from their families in Poland alone. In the in famous Nazi massacre in the Czech vil lage of Lidice, the Germans first examined the community's 90 children. They saved eight for Himmler's program and gassed the rest...
...that he could still affect the world around him. Thus warps of character appeared: sadism, the passion to control others, and necrophilia, the attraction to death and destruction. That sadism and necrophilia still are character traits in the 20th century, Fromm demonstrates through chilling psychobiographies of Sadists Stalin and Himmler, and the necrophilous Adolf Hitler...