Delve into the inner workings of the Lebensborn program as Himmler’s vision extended beyond childbirth. Learn how maternity homes, adoption policies, and marriage controls were used to shape an elite ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — For most of his 77 years, Cardiff resident John Gundersen had a firm grasp on his life story, at least from age 2, when his adoptive parents collected him from a Norwegian ...

When most of us think of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, we rightly recall the Holocaust and the millions of mostly Jews sacrificed to the Third Reich’s perverse fantasy of an Aryan super race. But there ...

Explore how Heinrich Himmler created the Lebensborn program in 1936 to increase births among children deemed racially valuable. This episode reveals the rise of maternity homes across Germany and ...

Local author Jennifer Coburn shines a light into a dark period of history. Her new novel, “Cradles of the Reich,” exposes an abstruse Nazi program, the Lebensborn Society. “It was a breeding program ...

The children of the Nazi Lebensborn program gathered publicly to deal with their past. Reuters reported that 35 products of the project, which involved homes started by Heinrich Himmler to create ...