Master race

"In the run-up to the Second World War, Heinrich Himmler embarked on Lebensborn, his obsessive programme to populate the Thousand Year German Reich with pureblooded Aryan men and women - while the death camps were disposing of Jews, homosexuals and the other 'sub-humans' enumerated by Hitler in Mein Kampf." "When the Germans invaded Poland, Himmler's SS discovered many blonde, blue-eyed Polish children - the image of the ideal Aryan. Himmler had an estimated 200,000 of them stolen as they walked home from school or played in village squares. They were transported to camps and tested to gauge their racial quality. If they passed they were first 'Germanized' and then placed with good Nazi families; those who did not measure up were used as forced labour or sent to camps that specialised in killing children." "Now, some of these 'perfect Aryans' tell their stories, recalling the shock and confusion of discovering their real backgrounds and the emotional scars they have never been able to obliterate."--BOOK JACKET.

Year

1995

Publisher

Coronet Books

Editions

1

Pages

288

ISBN

9780340665619

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