Lebensborn,Nazi Symbolism and Meandering Through the Maze of Mental Shortcuts

My essay is going to cover a wide range of topics the essay may contain non sequiturs. In a personal piece, however, we are given more leeway and we may abandon a strictly academic discourse. Let us begin. Holocaust. Shoah (Hebrew: calamity). Probably one of the most scrutinized topics of all time. An industrial-scale genocide throughout Europe genocide perpetrated by dehumanizing the victims and treating them like vermin. Vermin which had to be eradicated in order to pave the way for the Herrenvolk. Not many people seem to ask the question: what about the other side of the coin? The other side of the coin being the Aryan population growth.An obsession of doctor Joseph Mengele, who studied twins obsessively to give his Fuhrer as many Nordic children as possible. The master race population explosion was planned meticulously by the Nazis. The levels of Aryan population were to dramatically increase especially after the war. The beginnings of the process, however, reach 1935. With the advent of the Lebensborn one of the most mysterious and horrific organizations ever conceived in human history. How appropriate for the Germans to have it called the source of life.

The Lebensborns organization was based on a tenet of binarism. The whole project began shrouded by a veil of secrecy. A place where the Herrenvolk was to propagate, the Nazis had great plans for the Lebensborn; its tentacles were to penetrate Europe with millions of Aryan children being born every year.Lebensborn covered a multitude of angles, including forced Germanization of the children of the east to deportations in Zamojszczyzna regions to be settled by German colonists, reclaiming their rightful place from the Slavic Untermenschen. In Poland, terms such as Germanization and Russification are definitely negative in their connotation, but the Nazi variant of Germanization was far more profound than what kulturkampf had envisioned. Bismarcks kulturkampf did not entail a full-scale genocide. A child was either racially valuable or racially worthless. Racially worthless children were killed by phenol injection to their hearts. It was acceptable to Germanize children up until twelve years of age; older children were deemed too Polonized and were killed as future enemies of the Reich bent on revenge. Whether the speech is authentic - or not -its contents summarize not just the tenets of Lebensborn, but the whole Nazi philosophy. One basic principle must be the absolute rule for the SS men : We must be honest, decent, loyal and comradely to members of our own blood and to nobody else. What happens to a Russian, to a Czech, does not interest me in the slightest. What other nations can offer in the way of good blood of our type, we will take, if necessary, by kidnapping their children and raising them here with us. Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only so far as we need them as slaves for our culture; otherwise, it is of no interest to me. Whether 10,000 Russian females fall down from exhaustion while digging an

antitank ditch interests me only insofar as the anti-tank ditch for Germany is finished. We must understand that Nazism was not merely a totalitarian ideology with a racist undercurrent; Nazism was fundamentally rooted in occultism. Indeed, this aspect is rarely addressed by historians, but there is irrefutable proof to categorically state that the Nazis were guided by esoteric principles, such as the hollow Earth (sending expeditions to Tibet in 1938; discoveries of dead Buddhist monks in Berlin during the last phases of the war), and the idea of reversing symbolism to achieve their aims the most famous example being the swastika, which is hardly a symbol of mayhem. Etymologically speaking, swastika derives from a Sanskrit wordsvastikah which loosely translates as a sign of good luck. It is ironic that one of the most positive signs humans have ever conceived of is now the quintessence of repulsion and terror in the minds of many. Nazi salutes siegheil and heil Hitler among the most recognizable ones have an occult vibe to them as well when we understand where they originate from; SS officers had to undergo rudimentary runic training and the very letters SS were written in Scandinavian runes, denoting victory. The Nazis also used runic signatures, undoubtedly a nod at their perceived Nordic supremacy. Twelve prominent SS officers led by Heinrich Himmler gathered at the Wewelsburg castle, drawing obvious parallels with knights of the round table. Lebensborn had its own baptism ceremonies, with quasi-religious undertones. In fact, virtually everything the Nazi regime had implemented over the years was based on symbolism, as the Nazis believed emblems and expressions resonate

with the population, creating energies and providing hoi polloi with a frame of reference. I always found it surprising so many Lebensborn homes were established in Poland (to my best knowledge, there were five homes, with numerous screening facilities to decide whether a particular child deserved or perish as an entity unworthy of living). Nothing exemplifies the sheer absurdity of Lebensborn better than photographs of Polish children behind Auschwitz barbed wire; some of those children were to undergo further testing (surprisingly, it was not just about appearance, but also about intelligence, and behavior if a particular child had Aryan characteristics, but was deemed delinquent/not too bright, that child was to be terminatedon the spot!) Racial obsession of Nazism was as profound as it was disturbing. If we take the SS the elite of the elite, the future masters of not just Europe but even the world the knights were subjected to racial profiling going back to the 1750s; their female partners were required to undergo the same level of stringent racial profiling. No hereditary diseases were tolerated. What is amazing to me are..insults, insults that entered the language of Lebensborn and even the more mainstream German society insults such as dont slouch like a Slav. Language reflects the mindset of its users, after all, so what better way of finding the core of ideology than in everyday speech. Naturally, if a Lebensborn child was born disabled, it was deemed racially inferior and immediately killed. There was no mercy of any kind, as mercy would equal weakness - mercy could not have become a Nazi virtue. Such was the warped sense of morality. Yes, it was a new kind of morality a Nazi morality where only the racially valuable could survive.

Let me narrow the concept of Lebensborn down to a few specific examples. Helenw (a place near d), loosely translated as a camp for the betterment of the Germanic race. I find the camp to be a particularly vicious expression of the Nazi regime. The camp bonded teenage Germans and Poles I cannot stress this enough: who possessed valuable racial features and forced them to procreate. Neither group was given a say in the matter. In case of Poles, however, arriving at Helenw was more dramatic, i.e. z apanki.There was no way to oppose rampant sexual exploitation, and suicide attempts were common- especially in case of Polish females. Polish underground was reluctant to accept the fact that it was next to impossible to resist the exploitation and used words such as unfortunately when describing suicide attempts of Polish women. Indeed, Polish women were seen as traitors but how could we talk about treason when snatched off the street and enslaved? Myriad examples of cognitive dissonance was par for the course throughout the second world war. Forced laborers in Germany would of course have children from that to time. The children were racially inspected and if there was a suspicion that they were racially valuable (yes, suspicion, because further tests in special racial laboratories were required, one of which was located in Kalisz) Lebensborn was part of Heu-Aktion (hay action),and Heu-Aktion was in turn part of the Generalplanost. Had Generalplanost been implemented in full magnitude, the Holocaust would have been dwarfed by circa fifty million additional deaths mostly Slavs.

When the allied forces entered Germany, they found many Lebensborn homes. Understandably, allied soldiers were perplexed as to the nature of those homes. SS-personnel got rid of the documents identifying childrens origins (mostly Polish, it is estimated circa 200, 000 children were kidnapped from Poland even during the Warsaw uprising!), throwing them in rivers and burning as many documents as they could. In Norway, Lebensborn children are suing the Norwegian government en masse for maltreatment right after the second world war, when the children were imprisoned in psychiatric wards and labeled SS-bastards. A specially formed contingent called brown sisters scoured Polish orphanages for racially valuable children nobody ever asked Polish caretakers whether the children could be taken. Children were ripped away from their mothers arms. The age of twelve was the threshold between life and death as Adolf Hitler could not allow superior Aryan blood on alien lands to rebel against Germany, the older Aryan children were killed along with racially inferior ones. I remember reading a story of a Ukrainian adult prisoner somewhere near Kiev. SS-personnel arrived and started scanning the prisoners. He was one of the chosen ones. There was a slight problem, however: circumcision. He had to hide that pesky fact as soon as possible there was no way anyone would have let him out of the camp had they discovered his secret. Miraculously, the man was classified as Aryan, received a German passport and was free to work in the Reich. Such examples show how flawed the Reichs ideology was with famous saying of Goering that he decides who is a Jew and who is not a Jew. What about the mischlings, numbering up to 100, 000 in the German army? What does the above tell us? Quite a lot, actually. On a multitude of levels.

We must honor and remember the Jewish victims but we should not treat Jews as saints they are not saints, nor is any other group; we cannot allow words such as anti-Semitism (Semitic peoples, to my knowledge, extend far beyond the Jews, so the term itself is misplaced ) to be used as censorship mechanisms, labeling anyone expressing non-mainstream views as racist. Analogous principle can be observed in case of Nazi/German division. I heard many times not to talk about the Lebensborn, because it might offend the Germans. I do not understand such reasoning, as stating facts is not shouting abuse at someone. I understand the political correctness approach behind it, but where does political correctness end? We must guard against the Orwellian indoctrination of society disguising itself as political correctness. With all the German (yes, lets not be afraid to use that word) atrocities in Poland, let us ask ourselves: were all those atrocities really unavoidable? Did Poland really have no alternative? Let us be honest, Poland chose one of the worst paths it could have taken as a state. It is worth remembering that Alfred Rosenberg a chief Nazi ideologue did state unequivocally Poland had a sizeable Nordic population. A hostile Nazi stance was a result of unquenchable Polish patriotism. What happened that Poland apparently at the eleventh hour - decided to ally with Britain and France? Was it naivete, a romantically induced moment of weakness that is so common in Polish thinking - or something entirely different? We probably are never going to learn the answer. What we do know is that Poland suffered enormously under the Nazi and subsequent Communist rule in the name of well, exactly: in the name of what? Being on the side of the good guys? Better reputation?

Unfortunately for many Poles, it is not honor - but realpolitik - which governs the international chessboard. Perhaps if JzefPisudski had been alive in 1938-1939, we would have taken a less serendipitous route. Uaskafantazja is good for parades, but not out there in the real world. Poland paid dearly for its decisions and will continue to pay the price for generations to come. Is the resurgence of Nazism unthinkable? All I can say is this: never use the word unthinkable with humans. They just might surprise you on every extreme of the spectrum. Lebensborn, for instance, is by no means a dream of the past; Robert Graham an American entrepreneur and eugenicist was so appalled by the levels of dropping intelligence levels in humans, he contacted as many esteemed individuals as he could asking for their sperm to be donated. Graham wanted to create as many genius children as possible by mixing the DNA of highly intelligent donors and willing women. There is approximately two hundred children in the world today who do not know they are products of Nobel prize sperm banks. In a world where money is God and human life has no intrinsic value anything is possible. Finally, I would like to mention the heavily sensitive issue of Jews in Poland. There are not many of them, thousands of them at most. Or so I keep hearing. Well, thats not exactly true and Im sure the ones who say there is thousands of Jews in Poland are perfectly aware of the fact that Jewish DNA (please, do not read into that) is widespread in Poland.

I do not know how many people in Poland have Jewish genes in them, but I would not be surprised if we are talking about millions. Percentages of genetics vary, of course.You cannot erase a thousand years of co-habitation even when we are talking about six years of senseless murder. I think Jews might have saved Poland in crucial historical moments thanks to their inherent sets of skills and (I do believe so) a generally above-average level of intelligence. I do understand why it is a contentious issue in modern Poland, i.e. it is going to take a generation or two before Polish society grows up and treats the Jewish matter with maturity it so richly deserves.