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In reply to the discussion: Congressman says NO is treason [View all]leveymg
(36,418 posts)12. It was similarly a crime against the Fatherland to deny birth to a good "racially valuable" German
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensborn
The Lebensborn e. V. (eingetragener Verein, "registered association"
was founded on 12 December 1935[4] to halt the high abortion rate (as high as 800,000 per year in the interwar period) and falling birth rates in Germany, and to promote Nazi eugenics.[1][5] Located in Munich, the organisation was partly an office within the Schutzstaffel (SS) and responsible for certain family welfare programmes, and partly a society for Nazi leaders.
On 13 September 1936, Himmler wrote the following to members of SS:
The organization "Lebensborn e.V." serves the SS leaders in the selection and adoption of qualified children. The organisation "Lebensborn e.V." is under my personal direction, is part of the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, and has the following obligations:
1. Support racially, biologically, and hereditarily valuable families with many children.
2. Place and care for racially and biologically and hereditarily valuable pregnant women, who, after thorough examination of their and the progenitor's families by the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, can be expected to produce equally valuable children.
3. Care for the children.
4. Care for the children's mothers.
It is the honourable duty of all leaders of the central bureau to become members of the organization "Lebensborn e.V.". The application for admission must be filed prior to 23 September 1936.[6]
In 1939, membership stood at 8,000 , of which 3,500 were SS leaders.
On 13 September 1936, Himmler wrote the following to members of SS:
The organization "Lebensborn e.V." serves the SS leaders in the selection and adoption of qualified children. The organisation "Lebensborn e.V." is under my personal direction, is part of the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, and has the following obligations:
1. Support racially, biologically, and hereditarily valuable families with many children.
2. Place and care for racially and biologically and hereditarily valuable pregnant women, who, after thorough examination of their and the progenitor's families by the race and settlement central bureau of the SS, can be expected to produce equally valuable children.
3. Care for the children.
4. Care for the children's mothers.
It is the honourable duty of all leaders of the central bureau to become members of the organization "Lebensborn e.V.". The application for admission must be filed prior to 23 September 1936.[6]
In 1939, membership stood at 8,000 , of which 3,500 were SS leaders.
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I always figured the GOP was anti-abortion because they might only get one chance to breed.
freshwest
Mar 2012
#8
It was similarly a crime against the Fatherland to deny birth to a good "racially valuable" German
leveymg
Mar 2012
#12
The German Family Law is based in good old Gold Prize Better Babies and American Eugenics Theory
leveymg
Mar 2012
#15
Some of America's wealthiest supported the Eugenics Movement - lines up well with elites who
leveymg
Mar 2012
#17
The "satire on the Republican War on Women" brings us back to the pillars of the Republican Party
leveymg
Mar 2012
#19
There are much bigger figures in the Fascist International than Ayn Rand. She's a ditzy ideologue,
leveymg
Mar 2012
#22
Actually, she was known in fascist circles, particularly among White Russians/Baltics like Rosenberg
leveymg
Mar 2012
#24