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Lebensborn e.V. (literally: "Fount of Life") was an SS-initiated, state-supported, registered association in Nazi Germany with the goal of raising the birth rate of "Aryan" children via extramarital relations of persons classified as "racially pure and healthy" based on Nazi racial hygiene and health ideology. Lebensborn encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women, and mediated adoption of these children by likewise "racially pure and healthy" parents, particularly SS members and their families. Initially set up in Germany in 1935, ''Lebensborn'' expanded into several occupied European countries with Germanic populations during the Second World War. It included the selection of "racially worthy" orphans for adoption and care for children born from Aryan women who had been in relationships with SS members. It originally excluded children born from unions between common soldiers and foreign women, because there was no proof of racial purity on both sides. At the Nuremberg Trials, no evidence was found of direct involvement by the ''Lebensborn'' organization in the kidnapping of Polish children. However, Heinrich Himmler directed a programme with other segments of the Nazi bureaucracy, whereby thousands of Polish children were kidnapped and subjected to 'Germanisation'. Germanisation involved a period at one of the 're-education camps', followed by being fostered out to German families. ==Background== The ''Lebensborn e. V.'' (e.V. stands for ''eingetragener Verein'' or registered association), meaning "fount of life", was founded on 12 December 1935, to counteract falling birth rates in Germany, and to promote Nazi eugenics. Located in Munich, the organization was partly an office within the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) responsible for certain family welfare programs, and partly a society for Nazi leaders. On 13 September 1936, Heinrich Himmler wrote the following to members of the SS: The organisation "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: In 1939 membership stood at 8,000, of which 3,500 were SS leaders.〔() 〕 The ''Lebensborn'' office was part of ''SS Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt'' (SS Office of Race and Settlement) until 1938, when it was transferred to ''Hauptamt Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer-SS'' (Personal Staff of the ''Reichführer''-SS), i.e. directly overseen by Himmler. Leaders of ''Lebensborn e. V.'' were ''SS-Standartenführer'' Max Sollmann and ''SS-Oberführer'' Dr. Gregor Ebner. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lebensborn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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