Only a hundred years ago, the concept of eugenics, inhuman in its essence, enjoyed serious popularity and support in many ideological circles. Socialists, communists, social Darwinists and other protectors of a happy future for all mankind took the idea of Darwin's nephew, Francis Galton. Of course, the Nazis, obsessed with the idea of bringing out a true Aryan, a superman, could not pass by either.
Life source
An ambitious program to create a superhuman is called Lebensborn, the source of life. As conceived by the curators, genetically pure German women were assigned as partners to senior SS officers. So the adherents of national unity were going to get ideal children - the glorious future of the Third Reich.
Incubators
Women were selected throughout Europe. They were taken to special boarding schools, which were, in fact, incubators. Norway turned out to be a real gift for fans of eugenics: blue-eyed blondes were indeed the perfect material for experiments.
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Program development
The Norwegian beauties gave the Third Reich about 12 thousand purebred Aryans - the backbone of the future super race. But the ambitious plans of the Fuhrer demanded more: they began to take pregnant German women of Aryan appearance to boarding houses, without even asking the alleged father of the child. Having suppressed the resistance of Eastern Europe, the Germans began to take out children of Aryan appearance to their homeland in whole trains.
hit or miss
Those who did not pass the final selection were ruthlessly sent to concentration camps. "True Aryans" were assigned to psychologists and, after proper training, were given to the officers' families for education.
Source end
Already at the very end of the war, the Germans realized that they would never see forgiveness for the inhuman eugenic experiments on stolen children. The Lebensborn project was urgently destroyed: the boarding houses were burned along with the documents. As a result, even today historians cannot imagine the true scale of the program for breeding ideal Aryans: by the most conservative estimates, about 200 thousand children passed through the "Source of Life".