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From: H-German Editor Steve Remy <sr110986@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
List Editor: H-German Editor Steve Remy <sr110986@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>
Editor's Subject: Query: Lebensborn
Author's Subject: Query: Lebensborn
Date Written: December 27, 1999
Date Posted: Wed, 28 Dec 1999 08:38:16 -0500

Submitted by: Frank Mecklenburg, Leo Baeck Institute (frank@lbi.com)

I came across an autobiography of an SS member

Peter Neumann, Black March, transl. by Constantine Fitzgibbon from the
French original, published in the late 1950s

in which, on p. 80 in my edition, he describes a mating farm in Germany.
This is in 1939 or 1940 and he is 19 or 20 years old, not yet a member of
the SS but has gone through NAPOLA and basic training. After being
recognized as a 'pure Aryan', he is sent off to this place where he lives
for a week. He picks his mate, lives with her for a week and all with the
understanding that this is to produce 'pure Aryan' off-spring.

Strange thing is also that Peter Neumann was apparently never translated
into German.

Has anyone seen this book? Is it fiction?

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