12,000 BLUE EYED "ARYAN" CHILDREN TAKEN BY THE NAZI'S ' WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?

DAILY MAIL UK ; 12,000 BLUE EYED CHILDREN TAKEN TO CREATE ARYAN SUPER RACE  Andrew Malone for the Daily Mail

EXCERPT: 

Folker, then just four, did not know it, but he had been chosen to be part of the new 'breed' of supposedly genetically-superior German beings, who would replace millions of the 'impure'  -  Jews, gipsies, homosexuals, blacks  -  after they had been exterminated in Hitler's death camps.
 
Having being ripped from the arms of his parents when German tanks rolled into the Crimea in 1942, Folker was first taken by SS officers to a German medical institute, where doctors measured every part of his body, checking for any 'Jewish aspects'  -  for example, dark hair, pointed noses, circumcision  -  before he was declared suitable.

He had been selected to be a member of the 'Lebensborn'  -  The Fount of Life  -  Himmler's breeding programme to safeguard the future of the Thousand-Year Reich by providing 'pure' future generations to replace those lost by war.

Devised in 1935, the Lebensborn scheme operated on different levels to provide 'Aryan' children for Hitler's mad schemes of eugenics.

As well as the stealing of blond children from families in occupied areas, another part of the scheme involved special 'breeding clinics' where pure German SS officers were told to mate with suitable German women.


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I have a story to tell about this...

I once was introduced to an old Blue Eyed woman and was later told by her house-mate that she had absolutely no idea about her heritage and had no family.  My associate speculated that she was one of the children born in Hitler's breeding program.  She did look "German," to me and was about the right age.  The woman lived alone in a house in Los Angeles, had never married or had children, and was quite isolated. How she afforded anything was a mystery. 

When I read this article I thought about her, and others who have an unknown or unspoken heritage, for which they personally have no responsibility at all.

Sometimes people will challenge me, stating that I could not possible do their genealogy.  Often they are wrong, simply they are unaware of how much public information is out there.  However, in a case like this I would be stymied. 

FOLKER HEINECKE DISCOVERS HIS ROOTS AFTER HITLER'S LEBENSBORN PROGRAMME - MULTINATIONAL ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS FOUND

DAILY MAIL - THE TRAGIC TALE OF 12,000 BLUE EYED BLOND CHILDREN STOLEN BY THE NAZI's  by Andrew Malone   long article and very important story

EXCERPT:

Folker, then just four, did not know it, but he had been chosen to be part of the new 'breed' of supposedly genetically-superior German beings, who would replace millions of the 'impure'  -  Jews, gipsies, homosexuals, blacks  -  after they had been exterminated in Hitler's death camps.

Having being ripped from the arms of his parents when German tanks rolled into the Crimea in 1942, Folker was first taken by SS officers to a German medical institute, where doctors measured every part of his body, checking for any 'Jewish aspects'  -  for example, dark hair, pointed noses, circumcision  -  before he was declared suitable.

He had been selected to be a member of the 'Lebensborn'  -  The Fount of Life  -  Himmler's breeding programme to safeguard the future of the Thousand-Year Reich by providing 'pure' future generations to replace those lost by war.

...Folker Heinecke:

'So I was an orphan. I could live with that. It was only some years later, as I tried to get more and more information, that it looked increasingly likely that I was part of the Lebensborn programme.'
Folker collected 20 boxes of documents from the American authorities, the German Red Cross, the Polish Red Cross, the International Tracing Service, the British Army of Occupation and at least 30 other agencies and church offices  -  all pieces in the gigantic jigsaw of his past.

Then, last year, he made a crucial breakthrough. With the opening up of the biggest Holocaust archive in the world at the Red Cross Tracing Centre in Bad Arolsen, Germany, Folker finally discovered the truth.

He found a document dated November 12, 1948, which stated: 'The childless couple Heinecke applied to the Hamburg youth office for adoption of a child.
They were given permission to have a child and went to a Lebensborn home to choose one. The child was fetched on 20.5.1943.'  Other documents were found on which the name, birthdate and place of the boy adopted by the family Heinecke are given as: 'Aleksander Litau, born 17.10.40 in Alnowa, Crimea, USSR.'

IRENA SENDLER : IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOTHERS : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY FILM REVIEW

IRENA SENDLER : IN THE NAME OF THEIR MOTHERS : ANCESTRY WORSHIP GENEALOGY FILM REVIEW

As it says on the back of the pack, this film is the story of a group of Polish Woman who outwitted the Nazi's during World War Two.  More to the point, Irena Sendler and some of her social worker friends were gentiles and are now gifted with the title Righteous of All Nations, by Yad Vashem.

Over 2500 Jewish children were saved from death by being taken from the Warsaw Poland ghetto where they and their families awaited deportation and death.  They secreted these children mostly in Catholic Convents with the nuns.  Everyone involved risked death as punishment for their heroic activity if they were caught.  Of course the children were required to learn new Christian names and act as Catholics and it was all very stressful and confusing for them. But they lived.

This is a PBS video but there was a lot of financial help behind it which is noteworthy.  The Polish and Slavic Federal Credit Union.  The Foundation for German Polish collaboration,  Rafal Obinski and the Legion of Young Polish Women are just some of the funders.  I realize I had never heard of these people or organizations before this film. 

Winner of the Best Documentary Audience Award in the UK Jewish Film Festival 2012, I am always glad to know that historians are trying for a balanced view of history, because I've heard a lot of Catholic bashing and Polish bashing in my lifetime.  Yes, an estimated 6 million Jewish civilians were exterminated by the Nazi's in Occupied Poland, Occupied Hungary, and so on, but so were millions of Catholic Poles and Christians in several countries.

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