Oliver Hartung for The New York TimesEight people, products of a program to propagate Aryan traits, met Saturday to exchange their stories.
Posted on 11/07/2006 4:21:57 AM PST by Pharmboy
Oliver Hartung for The New York Times
Eight people, products of a program to propagate Aryan traits, met Saturday to exchange their stories.
WERNIGERODE, Germany, Nov. 4 — For Guntram Weber, the journey that led to this quaint town of horse-drawn carts and half-timbered houses was long, wrenching, and anything but redemptive.
Four years ago, Mr. Weber discovered that his father was not, as his mother had told him, a young soldier who died honorably on the battlefield during World War II. Instead, he was a high-ranking SS officer, who oversaw the deaths of tens of thousands of people while stationed in what is now western Poland.
“He died peacefully in Argentina, with his old comrades standing at his grave and raising their right arms,” Mr. Weber said, his voice thick with anger and grief. “A racist is forever a racist.”
As Mr. Weber, 63, told his story to a hushed room of mostly gray-haired men and women here, there were sympathetic nods, but little surprise. Most had their own tales of deceit and discovery, life histories that proved to be homespun fairy tales, the dark truth buried under layers of silence.
These are the children of the Lebensborn, an SS program devised to propagate Aryan traits. On this chilly weekend, they gathered here in a corner of central Germany to share their stories, and to speak publicly, for the first time, about the horror of finding out they had been bred to be the next generation of Nazi elite.
“This is the opposite example of the Holocaust,” said Gisela Heidenreich, 63, a family therapist from Bavaria, whose mother was unmarried and whose father, she later discovered, was a senior SS officer. “The idea was to further the Aryan race by whatever means were available.”
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These MSM guys make me want to puke.
I don't know if I'd call Hillary "ordinary."
One fact that liberals often ignore is that lesbians were not persecuted under Hitler -- they were, however, expected to have children and did use the SS stud farms for that end.
No really an aryan look ... she's had a bad dye job going for the last 30 years.
How does the story end? I won't register for the NYT's.
I saw this exact picture the other day and it explained that these people were the children of murdered jews taken from their parents and given to German parents, they were chosen because they had aryan features. Makes me wonder if the media ever gets stories wrong. /s/
"These MSM guys make me want to puke."
They're not subtle, are they?
"Glow in the dark" Nazis...boy that one took me by surprise. Maybe Mel Brooks can use it--funny.
Wow...that's really strange. Can you find the source of that picture? I would love to post it.
Random ping to my random ping list...
Sorry, I don't remember where I saw it, I was hoping someone here had seen it as well.
Click on the link .... it's not registration banded (as of now).
I hope someone does find it. This shady practice needs to be stopped.
For the editors of the New York Times, it is always the height of the New Deal, and the enemy is always the Nazis, even as many decades have passed and circumstances have changed and great new dangers have arisen which demand the most serious attention of our opinion leaders. Yet the Times, like the aging movie star in "Sunset Boulevard," refuses to face the reality of the present and prefers to wallow in the glories of her fights from long ago.
It was/is for me.
Thanks for the ping. An interesting article but I've always wondered about other WW2 babies: the products of rapes by Red Army soldiers. There must be thousands still living.
I used a http://www.bugmenot.com password (fynyt) and it worked.
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