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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WERNIGERODE, Germany – 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 ...

OSLO, Norway – Gathered at the Royal Christiania Hotel overlooking rain-swept Oslo, the men and women with their name tags and windbreakers could pass for a perfectly ordinary party of over-60s on an ...

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 ...

WERNIGERODE, Germany, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Thousands of Germans conceived under the Nazi Lebensborn program are trying to come to terms with their heritage. S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler promoted the program ...

WERNIGERODE, Germany – A group of Germans who as children were selected by the Nazis for their Aryan qualities as part of Adolf Hitler's quest to build a master race were gathering publicly Saturday ...