The Forgotten Children of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn @HistoryInsideWW2
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Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
What happened to the children of Heinrich Himmler’s Lebensborn program after World War II. From Norway’s abandoned Lebensborn children to the Polish children kidnapped and Germanised by the SS, this is the chilling aftermath of one of Nazi Germany’s most disturbing racial programs.

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Research & script by Jordy Faijdherbe
Narration by Benjamin Pemberton

Chapters
00:00 How Himmler’s Lebensborn Program Worked
02:47 Norway’s Lebensborn Children After WW2
05:09 Nazi Germany’s Stolen Children
07:46 Why Lebensborn’s Leaders Walked Free

📚 Primary sources used:
- USHMM — "Lebensborn Program"
- US Military Tribunal No. I — RuSHA Case Judgment, 1948
- Diane Marie Amann — "Inge Viermetz, Woman Acquitted at Nuremberg," 2024
- Willa Smith — "They Must Be Germans," 2020
- The Globe and Mail — "Norway's War Children Head to Court," 2007
- Catrine Clay & Michael Leapman — Master Race: The Lebensborn Experiment in Nazi Germany, 1995

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