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There were two more contributions to this ongoing discussion. - ed.
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Submitted by: Richard Weikart
rweikart@TOTO.CSUSTAN.EDU
Some have expressed amazement at the persistence of the image of Lebensborn
as an SS "stud farm," but so far no one has mentioned the relevant works
propagating
this image and discussing their reliability or unreliability. In Bernt
Engelmann's work, _In Hitler's Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich_,
Engelmann spends a chapter discussing the Lebensborn, and he presents it
precisely as an SS stud farm. His source is Marc Hillel's and Clarissa
Henry's work, _Of Pure Blood_ (1976, originally in French _Au nom de la
race_, in
1975; the British title was _Children of the SS_ and the German title was
_Lebensborn E.V. Im Namen der Rasse_). Has any historian out there
examined Hillel's and Henry's work? (I haven't). Is it reliable? In the
course of tracking down information about Hillel's and Henry's book, I also
discovered that some TV productions were made based on it, one in 1986 and
another in 1989 (the latter for BBC).
Richard Weikart
Department of History
California State University, Stanislaus
Turlock, CA 95382
phone: (209) 667-3522 or 667-3238
e-mail: rweikart@athena.csustan.edu
fax: (209) 667-3132
WWW homepage: www.csustan.edu/History/Weikart/index.htm
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Submitted by: Boria Sax
VogelGreif@AOL.COM
Whether we call Lebensborn a "stud farm" or a "maternity home" depends on
what we believe its major purpose to have been. It may have served several
functions, but was it primarily created to create Aryan children or to help
young women? Official statements seem to place more emphasis on the former
goal. For a summary of the purposes, activities, and organizational
structures of Lebensborn, I suggest _NS-Biologie_ edited by Aenne Baeumer
(Stuttgart: S. Hirzel, 1990), p. 103-108.
Boria Sax
 Humanities & Social Sciences Online 
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