Himmler encouraged and then required SS members to procreate with their wives and other women judged to be sufficiently Aryan. He didn't care if they were married or not, and the unwed mothers could give birth in secret homes in Germany and the occupied countries which were comfortably furnished with things stolen from deported Jews. The condition was that after the child was born, they would be handed over the SS to be allocated to 'elite' families (in other words, the most fanatical Nazi nutbags).
The Nazis also kidnapped a lot of children from occupied territories which the troops on the ground thought looked Aryan (at least 100,000 were taken from from Poland alone). The kids were sent back to Germany for final judgement. If they failed the test, they were either killed or put in orphanages; if they passed the test, they were given to German families to raise.
After the War, the 'Lebensborn' children became social outcasts, both in Germany and in the occupied countries, and many of them had pretty miserable lives. The best-known child of such a union was Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the brunette woman in ABBA. She was the child of a single Norwegian woman and a German sergeant. This fact meant that her childhood was messed up in many ways and it's most likely a large part of the reason she's had some serious battles with depression.
IIN I feel like I drew the short straw
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Himmler encouraged and then required SS members to procreate with their wives and other women judged to be sufficiently Aryan. He didn't care if they were married or not, and the unwed mothers could give birth in secret homes in Germany and the occupied countries which were comfortably furnished with things stolen from deported Jews. The condition was that after the child was born, they would be handed over the SS to be allocated to 'elite' families (in other words, the most fanatical Nazi nutbags).
The Nazis also kidnapped a lot of children from occupied territories which the troops on the ground thought looked Aryan (at least 100,000 were taken from from Poland alone). The kids were sent back to Germany for final judgement. If they failed the test, they were either killed or put in orphanages; if they passed the test, they were given to German families to raise.
After the War, the 'Lebensborn' children became social outcasts, both in Germany and in the occupied countries, and many of them had pretty miserable lives. The best-known child of such a union was Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the brunette woman in ABBA. She was the child of a single Norwegian woman and a German sergeant. This fact meant that her childhood was messed up in many ways and it's most likely a large part of the reason she's had some serious battles with depression.