My paternal grandmother and her sister came from Lebensborn. When the war ended and the Nazis lost my great grandmother was left a single mother with two daughters she couldn't care for and for obvious reasons no one wanted to acknowledge them or help her care for them. Eventually she met a man that was willing to marry her, under the condition she gave away one her daughters. The man wouldn't raise both of her bastard Nazi babies. So she made the choice to give away the younger of the girls, my great Aunt. She was given to a local family, grew up down the road from my Nanny and her family. The girl never knew where she came from, or that she was even adopted. My Nanny is long gone but her sister, who we did eventually find, is still alive. Her family begged us not to reach out, that the stories we have to tell would be too damaging to an 80 something year old woman. We've kept our distance and just happy knowing she's okay and had a good life. Another fun part of my family story.... My father, the son of a Lebensborn baby, grew up and married a Jewish woman and has three Jewish children and three Jewish grandchildren. We even found out through DNA testing that he himself, from his mother's side, is also about 25% Ashkenazi Jewish. So I guess the Nazis weren't all that good about weeding out all that dirty Jewish blood after all.
Glad you guys have a somewhat good story about this! It just seems horrifying to me, but it's good to know the children who came out of it are not the hateful monsters Hitler wanted them to be.
@@MrPaxio Yeah, all she would've... whoops, I mean _would of_ had to do was wait 80 years for cultural views to shift and then find the right man. It's odd that she was so impatient.
The treatment of the children after the war in Norway is a real blight on Norway. They justified putting these small children in mental institutions and abandoning them by saying, 'Any child fathered by a Nazi can't be and won't be right in their minds', thus showing Norwegians themselves to have the same mindset they claimed to be morally against. The hypocritical irony of this is not lost on me and my modern personal experience here.
Those institutions had a much higher mortality rate than normal families, so sending children there was like making them play Russian roulette. Not quite the same as sending them to the gas chamber, more like an Irish Mother and Baby Home.
Yep. And that treatment can backfire pretty hard too. I was bullied for being the granddaughter of a German soldier, and I damn well near became a Nazi as a result. Being gay saved me from that I guess 😅
@@Donnah1979 its not reversing the roles The children did not commit any crimes. They are victims as well and punishing them is inhuman and makes danish people not far away on a shitty morality scale than thoze nazi soldiers Its as stupid as punishing todays jews for crucifying the Jesus
The more obscure things I learn about the nazis, the more batshit insane they get. Every time I think they couldn't possibly have been any more deranged, history finds a way to prove me wrong. Those poor kids... I hope they're all resting in peace alongside everyone else who lost their lives to the regime.
@@minchen_2265 Never mentioned the US. I'm talking about Germany. Specifically I'm talking about the "undesireable" kids. I never said anything that would support or contradict that statement, but ok thanks.
@@maddiemaccheese8170 some things are just propaganda. Not trying to dampen what they did because they did commit genocide in the worst ways imaginable but if you go down some rabbit holes you'll see the stuff they added to sensationalize and make a profit off of what happened. Which is sick unless you directly were a victim of it.
@@maddiemaccheese8170 that's why the entire "holocaust denial" narrative is growing sadly. Because that 100% did happen but, a good bit of what is being said really was to make it a bigger story which raised red flags with a lot of people. That's why we need to stop dehumanizing nazi Germany. Because the amount of people that actually believe that they wouldn't be apart of a government like that is utterly terrifying. Before the propaganda and echo chambers started they were like us. If people can't grasp how they'll condone something of that nature then history will be repeated. Especially with people within the left because they are so blind to the fact that meeting intolerance with intolerance only makes situations worse. Not better.
@@kevingarth6682 I never said any of this was untrue. The U.S. has committed atrocities as well, obviously. But I wasn't talking about the U.S. I was talking about Nazi Germany.
My great-grandmother was involved in this, thought not willingly. The nazis showed up to her house and took her young son (blonde haired/blue eyed) and said he'd be "educated properly". She never saw him again. This was 1939 in Poland, her name was Helena Canterbury, she fled to the US the same year after her property and all were seized
@@jimmyjimjims7483i think if he survived then he’s ur great uncle, I’m guessing your great grandma had more kids and that he was the sibling or half sibling of your grandparent
When I was a kid in a primarily Italian school in Canada, the other kids would call me a Nazi alien. Absolutely floored me as both sides of my family fought in the war against the Nazis, and I'm not even German. I'm Ukrainian on my mom's side, and Jewish/Native American on my dad's side. My great grandma on his side was sent to a Residential School. It was so freaking bizarre being called such cruel names by rich 100% white kids. I mean, I grew up on stories about my grandma on my mom's side yelling at Nazis and shaming them into leaving the family that took her in as their own alone. She had fled from the Holodomor going on in the Ukraine after losing most of her siblings, and she picked up languages so quickly that no one knew she wasn't German until after the war, which she spent shaming German soldiers and getting absolutely Hench doing farmwork when she wasn't standing between them and the food they wanted to steal. Unarmed, yelling at them to shoot her, a good German woman. She ditched the German identity as soon as the war was over, and our names are very obviously not German.
Growing up in Germany, Guttenberg thought us we were Aryan . My grandpa saw the wall built and I saw it come down ! I'm an army brat of many generations. And it's still going on!
When I came to Canada I was picked on and bullied and alot of racism, bigotry. Lots of name calling and "Nazi" ... I hate that word. We weren't allowed to say it as a kid lol it's like saying the n word here . I never heard that word before moving to Canada ...
The treatment of the kids in non German countries is the saddest thing in this tragic story. Nazis being awful people is old news, but children who had no choice in their parentage being mistreated by whole societies? Revolting.
But the US has its own problem with native and hispanic children. You think it's not related but the Nazis actually quoted the US and our treatment of Hispanic people going through border inspections. The border was largely open and people would crossover to work on seasonal farming and cross back. Until the eugenics movement started. Then they started making the people women and children included strip naked and then they were "inspected" and then sprayed with pesticides. The Nazis got the gas chambers idea from us. And even now we have many lost children and people caged at the borders when technically it is legal to come her requesting asylum. The US is largely undeveloped west of the Mississippi and actually has plenty of room to redistribute people. We are actually in a severe workers shortage. We cannot support the aging population. The reason people don't want to fix the broken system is more about racism and fear of the white race losing power. Hell by then many congressmen were actually working with Hitler and agreed with him.
Alas that was considered normal, especially in classical and medieval times, and is still practiced in some countries today. It's a twisted extreme of the instinct to ensure one's own lineage, and it's one of many reasons that too much power mustn't be concentrated in one place.
@@ScarsFromTomorrow1 Believe it or not, I was thinking about the US border one when I wrote the comment. I also know that standard concentration camps also housed children.
What’s horrific is that I never learned anything about this in school. I knew the Nazis had a eugenics program but I didn’t know it was anything like this… thank you for posting this video, this knowledge NEEDS TO BE KNOWN
I am from Germany and even in our history class it wasn't thought. We spoke about so many aspects of Nazi Germany and did spend many hours with learning about the Holocaust and euthanasia. But I learned about the Lebensborn project during personal research.
@@jcrow236 Many highschools skip over this sort of thing purposefully, just like how 99%of schools here in the U.S. outright avoid talking about neo slavery, and slavery after the 13th amendment
@@cliffdraco1771 the problem is unfortunately that the education plans are full of different topics and the number of lessons during a school year is limited. I had advanced history course and we spoke about the time of nationalism in depth. But there are other important historical topics too. German history isn't only 12 years of nationalism Weimar Republic, Colonialism, German Seperation and Reunion... It's important but to learn about all the horrors caused during this time 10 school years wouldn't be enough.
my German grandmother went through this...she was "selected" despite she was married and had a small child - my father...she refused, and grandpa ended up at the Russian front as punishment...
In hs we had to do projects about different aspects of Nazi Germany. We were given a lot of latitude, very open perameters, and I observed a very interesting thing. Most people seemed to present a project based on an aspect of that time period that would have potentially affected them personally if they had lived there, then. My friend is very light complected, blue eyed blonde and she presented about the Aryan women breeding programs. I presented about how people from my religious background were treated. Another friend who was bi presented about how people who were suspected of being homosexual were treated. And so on. And I just found it fascinating how most of us were putting ourselves in that time and imagining what would happen to us, even when that wasn't the specific direction for the project.
@@naomizachery2303 You go honey! We must remember the most brutal history! My youngest son had to do a Mission project in third grade, we chose highlight the American Indian tragedy side of it. We need youth like yourself, intelligent and BOLD!
Every time I watch a video like this, I get super angry about the past, then I remember this is still happening in some countries, and I get even more pissed off.
@SoFreakinSoft hardly. Accepting it as a fact of human existence isn't permitting, it's acknowledgement of the futility in ever being liberated from that fact of humanity's existence - be it the infliction of cruelty or something mundane as wiping your arse. And the irony being in their cruelty they believed themselves committing a kindness - something to which every part of humanity in one degree or another is culpable for.
I am so happy you mentioned Frida! She has had profound tragedy and stellar successes in life. She went on to be in one of the the biggest pop bands in history, lost her daughter, married a prince, and now is in a common law relationship with a Viscount. I would LOVE to have a biography of her life!
the woman receiving the diamond encrusted award looks dead inside. also there is a game on steam called My Child Lebensborn that centers around a single parent that adopts one of these children, specifically a lebensborn child born to a woman who lived in Norway and had the child with a Nazi soilder when Norway was being occupied by them. the game is really good in terms of game play and story in how it sheds a light on how horribly these children were treated and essentially blamed for the circumstances of their birth, and during the end credits they show quotes from lebensborn children from Norway about how they were treated. its a really heavy game but I think it handles the topic well and was not a topic I ever thought about until I found that game
Highly recommend the game My Child Lebensborn to anyone interested in this topic. Absolutely gut wrenching experience and it educated me about a topic I'd previously never heard of.
A polish friend of mine was traveling in Germany.while drinking in a bar, a local had a few choice words about Poles which she took exception to. She retorted that the nazis had kidnapped polish women to breed with to improve the German people,or something to that extent. She basically implied Poles were the master race, I guess.. The bouncers had to remove him,he got so aggressive after that lol
@@boogerie Germany used to be a bunch of random divided tribes all fighting with petty kingdoms. Throw a random name out there like the Gauls, Vandals, or Saxons and they're probably involved equally so.
I saw another video about a survivor of the Japanese military kidnapping young Korean and other girls from neighboring countries to be used by their soldiers with men in lines waiting their turn. Disgusting behavior.
I remember my history teaching us this. What a great teacher he was. He would just speak mostly but the way he spoke we learnt so much compared to teachers that force you to glue yourself to you text book
Thank you for touching on what happened to those babies/ children who didn’t meet Nazi requirements. They were basically killed, by gassing , starvation or injection. Seen programs that don’t even mention this horrific behavior. Great job explaining what happened and why.
My husband was the most adorable blond haired blue eyed little boy. We’re polish and he says when he was little his grandparents would say that he’s lucky he wasn’t born in WW2 because the Nazis snatched kids who looked like him. It wasn’t scary to him, he was too young to understand, but it speaks to the horrors of living in occupied Poland (or anywhere).
Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA was born to a Norwegian Mother and a Father who was a Sergeant in the Nazi Armed Forces. After her birth, her Grandmother took her to Sweden to raise her.
ElizabethT45, thanks for explaining that to us 😌because Simon has such a heavy accent, and he talks really fast,so I missed part of what he said about Anni-Frid Lyngstad. I like this channel though because it’s very educational.
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.
I wonder if genetic testing would help their descendants find closure or if it would cause more emotional distress for them. I don’t understand how anyone could blame children for being conceived & born.
i honestly don't know what. either you realize you were raised to be a nazi or you realize not only that but also the fact that you had loving parents at one point who were killed by the very thing you were raised to be. horrible, horrible situation
When I was young there was a family who had an adopted WWII German Arian bred child. We lived in NJ. My late mother said the little girl was gorgeous and blonde/blue eyed etc. She passed away from the pediatrician over prescribing penicillin for every sniffle etc (before they realized it could be dangerous to do so )
The one woman to have had 16 babies, that's basiclaly 12 years of being constantly pregnant, I couldn't imagine how awful that has to be, one out, another in, jeez... :S
Having 16 or more children was common in the pre condom era. My dad was one of 12 kids, he was born in 1920, and my mother was one of 13 (born in 1924) Both were born in England.
There were big families generally 5-10, anything higher, especially for one woman, must be hell. 😂 16 is craaazy, I can really on the medieval or bare sustenance type family, where it was kinda common for some, most, or all of your children die because llagues, food, winter, ect. Needing a woman to try for 16 kids. 😂🤷
I have a Navajo friend who was illegally adopted by that cult in Utah when she was born. She died recently at 70. "Taking" children off the Rez was common then. From what little I could track down these Utah people were also adopting these Natz babies. According to Vanity Fair at the time Rove worked for Bush, he was one of these babies adopted by a Utah family. His birth father was a Natz officer, Karl Rover.
After learning about what they did in occupied countries, it has repeatedly crosses my mind when looking at my Polish children. They are adults now and still blonde, blue eyed & tall, especially my son. I joke that my son looks like an Aryan poster boy but it's really not funny. Another time and place & it could have been them that could have been stolen forever for some bat shit ideology that they were not part of. It's tragic beyond words
My daughter is blond, but she was born with severe club foot. It makes me shudder to think if she'd been born 60 years earlier, they'd have killed her outright for her "defects," or maybe even experimented on her. Her dad has German lineage.
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.................
@@Abigailtyrhgf Wow. You make me ashamed to be white. There, they're, their--learn a few fourth grade English lessons, please. White people pushed the indigenous people off their lands, and stole it from them--FACT. Crying about how people who lived on this continent before Europeans even knew it existed, are crossing a border white people created, is just so bleeding ignorant! Blaming the Jews for their own extermination at the hands of Nazis, is .... I just can't even grasp the level of stupidity exhibited in one post.
This as czech and slovak person that knows so many blond and blue eyed, who still stayed blond even though most people hair after puberty turn into light brown, I always think of what would have happened to them, so glad that I was born with brown hair and green eyes
As a mother As a Polish Woman As a parent of a boy with blond hair and blue eyes but being a woman with deep brown eyes and brown hair As a human being I'm appalled by the idea of taking , indoctrinating but also putting into labour camps and heartlessly killing any children Also I cannot believe the level of indoctrination that these woman were to give up their children with no idea of where they will be taken just for their own comfort during pregnancy and twisted idea of nationalism
I'm a third-generation Polish American (intermixed with Pennsylvania Dutch German and a small amount of Bavarian from my mother and Polish and Midlands English from my father) and my paternal grandmother (whose parents immigrated from Galicia and Lodormeria, which were Habsburg lands) had dark hair and light blue eyes....common characteristics of Austrian Jews (of which shock jock Howard Stern is one and Hitler descended from), even though I have yet done that "spit-in-the-tube" test from Ancestry. Yet this is what the Far-Left Red Fascists (Stalinist and Maoist Communists) want to do here in the US with our children.
Yes! Even if the conditions were seemingly ”good” and no one was ”forced” it was all based on indoctronation and propaganda. It was probably a strategic move to recrute young women. The whole idea of this program is so dehumanizing and sickening. I do kot get the obsession these kind of men and leaders have with breeding and making sure women keep on having children.
You brought a child in this world to be nothing but a slave to nazi g0vernm3nt. You missed out one bullet point also As a gumby with less then 80 i.q points
Okay as someone who speaks German let me break down Mutterehrenkreuz, it's pretty simple once you deconstruct it. Mutter - Mother Ehre (noun) - Honour/Glory (etc.) Ehren (verb) - to honour/to venerate (etc.) Kreuz - Cross (this is pronounced like "kroits") A confusing thing about German for English speakers (and others alike) is that they combine multiple words into one instead of hyphenating or simply leaving spaces. We do in this English too but we generally limit it to about two words whereas in German the sky's the limit.
I know some EU countries don't allow home DNA tests as readily as the US does, I think anyone of Polish descent or anyone who thinks they were stolen should be allowed a private home DNA test.
I wonder if that would help. To assume that a pure race exists and would correlate with a specific country is a myth. Most it could tell you is if you have central european or slavic etc properties, but Europe is ethnically very mixed and also always has been pre WWII era, so that wouldn't help a lot. I also doubt that those DNA yest results you see claiming somebody is 45% Italian or whatnot are even scientific at all. Being Italian is not a race but a way of life
Most polish people don't have "pure" polish genes. Before the war many people married internationally, polish history also made it so there's rarely anyone that doesn't have German, Russian or otherwise other European genes. DNA tests wouldn't do anything for a European person, unlike Americans that may have had their countries of origin forgotten or lost
The seemingly unending depths of horror committed by the NAZIs is what makes me hate how casually the term is tossed around these days. The reality of what that word represents should never be forgotten, trivialized, or mistaken. Yet, year after year, it seems to be losing more of its punch.
I agree with you. Nazi should be reserved for that absolute abomination of humanity. Instead today it seems to mean "I disagree with you", which removes the horror and stigma that should be associated with that label.
My paternal grandmother and her sister where both born in lebensborns and adopted by a couple who was fairly high in the party's hierarchy... not too proud of that but it is my family's history, I can't change that... not everyone was on the right side of events ^^
dig deep enough in any lineage, and you're bound to strike "oil" eventually... "right side" families being no exception. better to laugh it off. greets from Israel ;-)
It's not your fault, so you shouldn't be ashamed of it either. I think talking openly about this, like you do, helps avoiding something terrifying like national socialism to happen again, with the premise of people being intelligent enough to learn from such horrible mistakes. (Which they are apparently not, unfortunately.)
Its hypocritical for them to have this mindset. And in my opinion if a person felt this way, it also shows a lot of imsecurity in their own beliefs. If you think that you have to resort to killing children to spread your beliefs then your beliefs dont have a basis that youre confident in.
I can tell all this outrage is from men. Its a kind of black humor that you will find with pregnant women. If you think about it, a fetus is rather parasitic.
Humans are the same as cattle to Nazis, especially those with a working uterus. The USA slavery also had breeding farms for slaves, once the transatlantic slave pipeline was cut off. It was very profitable for the slave states. Thomas Jefferson mentioned how beneficial it was for Virginia.
I really liked that you singled out Norway in this video Because Norway was seen as the perfect Arian race to the Germans and with a population of less than 3 million Norway was the single biggest contributer to the lebensborn program There was a stigma for these children all There life and it even followed in to their children This is one thing I'm really ashamed of for my country 😔 this is a stain that we as a country must live with and never forget Lest we commit the same crime all over And yes it's kinda a nice story for Freda in ABBA but don't forget that Because we actually don't know 12 to 15000 children was born in the program in Norway And we must never forget what we did to those children So many lives ruined because we as a country wanted to give back som hatred to innocent children 😪😪😪😪 WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT WE DID TO THESE CHILDREN AND YES OFFCORS THAT ALL SO GOES FOR ALL THE CHILDREN IN GERMANY AND POLAND RUSSIA AND ALL THE OTHER PLACES THAT THE NAZIS CORUPTED DURING WW2 just saying 🇧🇻
All politics aside, you put young strong attractive people together and babies are the result. The mothers had nothing to be ashamed of, it's human nature.
@@quirky-catholic-girl det er ingen kvinner eller barn som skal verken dømes ei heller ha no SOM helst skyld i det som skjedde under andre verdenskrig At vi som et land ble invadert av en gjeng med psykopater er ikke vår feil Ei heller de kvinnene/ jentene som da ble dratt in i en verden av bedrag å brutte løfter Vi som land ble brukt som et perfekt land for NASSENE å det er ikke vår feil Så det VI SOM NORGE DA GJORDE MOT DE KVINNENE ER EN AV DE STØRSTE SKAMPLETTENE VI HAR SOM LAND I VÅR HISTORIE DET ER DET SAMME SOM DET VI GJORDE MOT KRIGSEILERNE SOM ETTER OPP MOT 10 ÅR UTE IKKE FIKK NOR SOM HELST FOR DEN UVURDERLIG JOBBEN DE GJORDE NORGE HAR FORTSATT MYE Å GJØRE OPP FOR ANG ANDRE VERDENSKRIG MEN DET VIL NOK IKKE SKJE SÅNN ER DET Å LEVE I VERDENS BESTE LAND GIT just saying 🇧🇻
@@neohermitess420 Not to mention that when a country is occupied by a conquering army, not all babies are the result of enthusiastic consent, making the post war violence against the mother unjustifiable, and the treatment of the children absolutely heinous.
If you want a more emotionally raw experience of how the Lebensborn children were treated in Norway during that period I recommend the game "My Child Lebensborn" It's sort of a tamagotchi-esque storydriven game about taking care of a lebensborn child and the experience as their parent seeing how they are treated. It's not too long, but it's really sad.
My father’s uncle was born from one of these women who were ment to have Nazis babies. After WW2 ended he was stashed in a closet for months because being discovered, after he was found he put in an orphanage where he was adopted by an abusive couple. Later in life he came to America and married my fathers aunt. I was close to him great up, he and my father’s aunt divorced a few years back and he passed away last year.
There is a game called my child lebensborn. You play as a parent who adopted a child. The child was from the program. It's all about it and super interesting
I would very much like to tell my families story of the lebensborn. My German grandmother married a man, who was a lebensborn child, and had my mother with him. Their relationship did not last he was vile to my grandmother and she divorced him (sometime in the 70s, divorce wasn't so forbidden at that time) I have never met my grandfather because he was a terrible father to my mother and at 19 my mother just started to ignore him. She basically cut him out of her life. The last time she spoke to him was shortly after I was born when he found out she was a mother from my grandma. My mother informed him that he would never have the pleasure to meet his grandchild and that he wouldn't exist in my life. Which was true. The man I grew up with thinking was my grandfather actually was just my grandmothers boyfriend, which I didn't find out about until I was in highschool. Blew my mind to know I had a biological grandfather I had never met. Anyways very off topic. But from my grandmother I found out that my bio grandfather was actually a lebensborn child. His mother (my great grandmother) had signed up for the program and got pregnant. Problem was this was right around the time they stopped the program. So very pregant she went home with a child she never intended to have. She was young, and unwed and now had a child she was supposed to just give away. She hated my grandfather because she never wanted him. Apparently she was incredibly abusive to my grandfather, my grandmother says this is why he was such a terrible man. Anyway just thought it was an interesting fact I learned about my own family. Had it not been for the lebensborn program I most likely wouldn't exist in this world. It's a very strange and surreal thought to have. Coming from such a terrible past and wondering if the world would be better had that past not happen, but then I wouldn't be here to live in it. Anyways have a great night. Loved all the information in this amazing video.
This does remind me of the historical fiction book, Someone named Eva. It makes a lot of sense of why her new "mother" was given medals and wanted her children to be the best of the best.
Once again, there's a Star Trek reference that I'm surprised Simon didn't mention: in the Voyager two-part episode “The Killing Game” (season 4, episodes 18 & 19), much of the crew are involved in a Holodeck program involving the Nazi occupation of France. B’Elanna Torres is carrying the child of a German SS officer, even though she's part of the French resistance; when the Germans capture her resistance cell, the officer tells her “I will spare your life for now, but only because you are carrying a German child”.
much as I love star trek, I kinda feel like this video's about real life & mixing fiction into it dilutes the seriousness of the issue. Roxanne Dawson's baby was fine & had a mother who loved her, she was never in danger in the holodeck & that part of the storyline was only written to cover for the actor's real life pregnancy, it wasn't a topic they felt a passionate need to write into the show otherwise
Fun fact about that episode of Voyager, Roxann Dawson the actress that played Torres was heavily pregnant. Through out that whole season she wore something similar to a lab coat to hide the bump.
Margaret Atwood had a hard rule when she wrote "The Handmaid's Tale" that she would not invent any atrocities that happened in her book. EVERY atrocity chronicled in The Handmaid's Tale would be one that has happened before, and documented.
This was a well done video. It was informative, and to the point. I like Simon's few bits of humor that helped lighten the impact of the presentation without disrespecting the material.
Which is also a very sad chapter in the history of the WWII , together with the Lebensborn children, the cildren born in the war of German and allied soldiers who were rejected everywhere and these innocent children had to suffer from it for a lifetime. It broke your heart to read stories like this.
I remember my Grandma telling us how if her family hadn't escaped to the US she might have been taken away and given to a German family to raised as a Nazi and everyone else would been killed. Her family was Czech and her father was a vocally anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Prague, so they were on lists. She was only 3 at the time they escaped and she had blond hair and blue eyes, with some German ancestry. Everyone else in her family had dark hair, and hers darkened when she got older.
Children shouldn't be punished which is not their crime nor should anyone but children are very vulnerable and susceptible to emotional and physical trauma.
My great grandmother was given the „Mutterverdienstkreuz“, she had five children. After receiving it she went into the outhouse and threw it into the sh*t. It was not like she had wanted five children for the Führer. In a rather rural area she just didn’t have much of a choice.
Interesting..My story has 4 things in common with yours. Don’t say the town she lived in, but would it happen to be near Mainz? If so, we could be related.
@@ManiyaVinas Why do you assume there was any rape in it? As a couple they could very well have considered it together, seeing as the program offered more means for their future children than a common life and work in a rural area.
Feels more like an Into The Shadows video than Today I found Out. But maybe the idea was to get this out to more people, just to remind them how evil that ideology is
What's always puzzled me is the concept of arianism. The Aryans came from India and are black haired, brown-eyed and have a swarthy complexion--the opposite of the blonde haired blue-eyed Germans. The Nazis knew this, they weren't intellectually impaired. So why?
Nazis were into goofy myths like Atlantis and the giants of Thule. The also took an interest in Tibet which is hardly a Nordic country. Nazism was more psuedo-science than science
I feel like there’s something to be said about the importance of manufacturing a mythos in order to try and solidify the “canon” of your ideology, therefore making it acceptable or justified in the eyes of a historical narrative. None of what they claimed about German or Aryan heritage makes any sense, especially from a migrational perspective of human history, but if it’s convincing enough to feed an impressionable population while they’re still in their earliest years of education, eventually you have generations repeating the same narrative. Quite terrible, and I agree, definitely laughable
actually the historical Aryans were from modern day Northern Iran / Armenia / Gorgia where practically all 'caucasian' (its in the name) people originate from.
um the nazi aryans were aliens who came to earth and had psychic powers they were blonde blue eye etc then bred with the lower humans and lost their powers
It will forever shock me every time I hear about more and more things that happen during this time. My mind can’t comprehend how so many people can be so cruel. We like to think that evil people aren’t common but they’re everywhere
Every time I think I know about the rough points that happened, I’m forced to find out they were worse. So, so much worse and so very aware of what they were doing.
@@Kitmuri Racism has nothing to do with Simon’s line. If your family was in Germany at this time like mine and didn’t follow the Nazi line, you were never seen again! It wasn’t just Jews. My grandmother was tortured in ways you could never imagine.
@@aiapihud4344 after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.
This is the first video I have watched by Simon Whistler, and I regret that I took so long to see his work. His voice and his image alone, with photos to the side, is overwhelmingly enough to have kept me spell bound all the way through. He was born to do this, I think. I shall find and watch everything he has done.
You mean the series from the 1960s? Wow. BTW completely unrelated, as a kid I had a fan crush on the girl who played the younger daughter Penny. She also had a role in The Sound of Music.
The former use of ~"German brat" (Tysk-unge in Swedish) was something that we were told about pretty early in life here in Sweden. I am definitely *not* proud of being a Swede when it comes to the 2nd World War. ("Neutral" my @$$) My grandmothers mother (I think that's right) helped the Norwegian people and smuggled things over the border to Norway, at the risk of her life, so it's very nice to know that my family wasn't a-holes at least. We're Sami/Sapmi, which makes my ancestors actions even braver. This I am thankful for.
I remember watching this film Europa, Europa as a young teenager and boy it messed me up. To this day, it's probably the hardest but greatest movie about WW2 Germany that I've seen
I have a sister who, in the early `90's, wanted to be a "breeder" for her boyfriend's little gang. When she told me, I was incredibly naive even though I am a year and a half older, I asked her, "Like a dog breeder? Like what they do with dogs?" This just made me think of that.
It always fascinates and horrifies me when exposed to the premises and implementations of eugenics. And still to this day it exists hiding in plain sight, many government policies and NGO's around world at their core a driven by the warped and repugnant notions that are the foundation of eugenicists' thinking
First; instead of specific instances I will offer up a litmus test. 1 Promotes genocide 2 Advocates for mandatory sterilization based on race or genetic defect 3 Advocates for racial purity or racial homogenization 4 Advocates for the promotion or demotion of social status or opportunity of individuals based their racial or genetic disposition If any above are a yes for a group or governmental policy's stated intent or demonstrated objective they align with eugenic philosophies. Second; for those unwilling to discern for themselves I will give two examples A. The Tuskegee Experiments - often thought to only be racial motivated, however it was more insidious than just that B. Multiple attempts (in various countries) to legislate the mandatory sterilization of people with genetic defects, primarily those with Downs Syndrome
She was not, her parents were a Norwegian Mother and a German Seargent in the German Army. I believe she was born in Norway, then her Grandmother took her and raised her in Sweden
haha, I was so confused at first when he kept saying 'Liebensborn' instead of 'Lebensborn' and kept thinking 'but... this certainly has nothing to do with love...'
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing........
As a Polish person, I'm really mad we are not taught about things like this in school. I was always sure that it's common knowledge, but some time ago I found out that my best friend had NO IDEA this even happened. Ever. I'm just 14 and most things about history I know, I have researched myself. History lessons were always the bare minimum (my history teacher is a great woman, it's not her fault our system doesn't teach us a lot), and the books had a lot of text, but the smallest amount of information. Even when I'm looking at my history school book right now it just feels empty.
I can say that the stigma of this children also could affect people that weren't actually a product of a nazi soldier. My grandma was born right after the war to a single mother in the soviet union. And although her father was a Jewish soldier (the irony), because she had blonde hair and blue eyes and the typical Aryan girl, she told me lots of people were suspicious about her and giving her the side eye.
Why is there no documentary or feature film about this? There’s an Oliver Platt movie called The Infiltrator that barely touches on this topic but this overall needs to be better known.
Wow, I had no idea that the lady from the band ABBA had a distant connection to this horrible legacy! ABBA was my favorite music group back when I was in high school. I was given one of their albums as a present for my 16th b-day. Thanks for sharing this informative video with us.
The U.S.A. has people with similar attitudes on "breeding stock" and a desire to force women to have the "right kind" of children for the "good" of the nation. Seems like the Supreme Court has several members that want this too.Other bad news: Kidnapping children is happening right now in parts of Ukraine. The eugenics movement is still active even after a century.
nobody gives a sht about Ukrainian children being kidnapped, not it cared about deportation to Siberia in the past, ethnic genocide etc. The world did nothing and is doing nothing but condemning.
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.............
…god. I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy who wrote the bill that eventually overturned Roe v Wade (with some of the other wording in there) got the idea from THIS playbook. …I’m pretty sure I read one of the “reasons” in the bill’s wording (paraphrasing here) was because of “a demand for adoptable newborns.” (Nevermind that…there are thousands of kids in state care who need loving homes or reunions. NOPE! Who cares about the kids already here; let’s just punish ciswomen and afab genders for the ol’ Two to Tango/sometimes sexual assault + deny access to medical care, and not just for reproductive health; ANY medication that can cause harm to a pregnancy, or a non-existant pregnancy…) Thank god my state voted to protect ALL reproductive rights and the medical personnel involves. But the state ammendment nearly didn’t pass. And there were far more political ads Anti Legalizing Abortion than there were in favor of the bill/breaking down the wording of the bill. I swear every horrifyingly regressive idea political conservatives have can either be sourced back to Nazi Germany, or mirrors Nazi Germany.
I often feel like im a fucked up person, then im reminded the nazis are a thing and i suddenly feel better and sick to my stomach at the same time. Better because im not that fucked up, but damn some of the shit they did is literally sickening.
The Nazi's themselves aren't much better or worse than anyone else in modern society. What's fucked up were the mandates made by the leaders. Russian society isn't much better than the Nazi society, Stalin tells you to rape some kids, you just do it. Now replace Stalin with Putin's Prison boys and Ukraine is where it's happening instead of Poland this time. In the USA if leadership ever became systemically as demented as Russia's you'd see murder camps set up just like the Nazi's. And most people would probably go along with it if the alternative is being sent to those said camps.
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing...............
Russia's copying the medals for mass baby producers and the kidnapping of foreign children right now. Of course, a lot of their tactics are straight out of the Nazi playbook.
Unfortunately many of the people who need to hear this most will probably say ‘sounds good to me’ not realizing there’s a good chance they contain ‘bad blood’
@@gateauxq4604 Some people will still vote for it even if they have bad blood. Maybe 0.05% of the population want to be purged systemically there are services and hotlines to convince people that those opinions are wrong.
I live in Łódź, a city in Poland that had both second biggest Jewish ghetto in Poland and concentration camp for Polish children. During the war nazis named the city Litzmannstadt. The camp for children was destroyed by the Nazis at the end of the war and there is almost nothing in that place to indicate that such horrible place existed. The kids and toddlers (as we know the youngest was about 2 years old) were treated the same way adult prisoners of camp were treated. There were also two units. One was "normal" and the other was for bedwetters. The kids of "normal" unit had straw and infested blankets (as far as I remember) and bedwetters were sleeping on just the frames that were reeking of urine and mould growing in wet wood. Of course there wasn't such thing as changing clothes when the child wet themselves. The kids did jobs as straightening the nails with their hands, made starw shoes, belts for gas masks and backpacks elements. The most common reason to be in a camp was homelessness or no parents to take care of the child. But there were also children of partisans that were killed or sent to Auschwitz. Other reasons were stealing or "worry" that the child will become neglected. There was no death penalties or crematories yet at least 200 children died in only that one camp.
Anytime I hear someone question the depravity of humankind or start to think that tragedies and systematic cruelties could never happen, I make them watch videos like these.
You should tell the story of the Norwegian woman that had children with German men and after the war norway sent all the Norwegian mothers with Germans they where called the 'german girls' was a sad time for the Norwegian
@@Abigailtyrhgf lol what? Germans and Brititish are the most ugliest nations. They killed all of their beautiful women on pyres. Easter european women are the most beautiful by standarts of the entire world.
Oh yes. German here, have known this for a long time, as here ex Lebensborn children often tried to find their real parents when they found out about their adoption.
Wow, Naoki Urasawa really did he research into German history when writing Monster. Amazing manga and anime, that delves into some deep topics like this in a thoughtful way. 10/10 would recommend
My mom was only 4 years old when sent to this "nutrition camp," within a prison camp where the rest of her family were prisoners. She was force fed. To this day (she is 86, now) she CANNOT eat spinach nor will she go near any large body of water.
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@@benjamindover5676 Loreial Ridge guy?
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My paternal grandmother and her sister came from Lebensborn. When the war ended and the Nazis lost my great grandmother was left a single mother with two daughters she couldn't care for and for obvious reasons no one wanted to acknowledge them or help her care for them. Eventually she met a man that was willing to marry her, under the condition she gave away one her daughters. The man wouldn't raise both of her bastard Nazi babies. So she made the choice to give away the younger of the girls, my great Aunt. She was given to a local family, grew up down the road from my Nanny and her family. The girl never knew where she came from, or that she was even adopted. My Nanny is long gone but her sister, who we did eventually find, is still alive. Her family begged us not to reach out, that the stories we have to tell would be too damaging to an 80 something year old woman. We've kept our distance and just happy knowing she's okay and had a good life.
Another fun part of my family story.... My father, the son of a Lebensborn baby, grew up and married a Jewish woman and has three Jewish children and three Jewish grandchildren. We even found out through DNA testing that he himself, from his mother's side, is also about 25% Ashkenazi Jewish. So I guess the Nazis weren't all that good about weeding out all that dirty Jewish blood after all.
tbh if she dumped that guy and let another simp come along, most likely they would of raised both of the bastard childs. its pretty common these days
Glad you guys have a somewhat good story about this!
It just seems horrifying to me, but it's good to know the children who came out of it are not the hateful monsters Hitler wanted them to be.
@@MrPaxio Yeah, all she would've... whoops, I mean _would of_ had to do was wait 80 years for cultural views to shift and then find the right man. It's odd that she was so impatient.
Nazis actually would still breed with you if you were part Jew still they had a chart about it
@@MrPaxio You sound bitter. Also kinda giving off incel vibes
The treatment of the children after the war in Norway is a real blight on Norway. They justified putting these small children in mental institutions and abandoning them by saying, 'Any child fathered by a Nazi can't be and won't be right in their minds', thus showing Norwegians themselves to have the same mindset they claimed to be morally against. The hypocritical irony of this is not lost on me and my modern personal experience here.
Those institutions had a much higher mortality rate than normal families, so sending children there was like making them play Russian roulette. Not quite the same as sending them to the gas chamber, more like an Irish Mother and Baby Home.
Yep. And that treatment can backfire pretty hard too. I was bullied for being the granddaughter of a German soldier, and I damn well near became a Nazi as a result. Being gay saved me from that I guess 😅
Yes, the roles can soon be reversed.
German children would also starve in Denmark, or be used to clear minefields right after WW2.
Historien er skrevet av seierherren, and so we only do our best to remember our mistakes
@@Donnah1979 its not reversing the roles
The children did not commit any crimes. They are victims as well and punishing them is inhuman and makes danish people not far away on a shitty morality scale than thoze nazi soldiers
Its as stupid as punishing todays jews for crucifying the Jesus
The more obscure things I learn about the nazis, the more batshit insane they get. Every time I think they couldn't possibly have been any more deranged, history finds a way to prove me wrong. Those poor kids... I hope they're all resting in peace alongside everyone else who lost their lives to the regime.
The US had breeding Farms for Slaves. It's not only the Nazis..
@@minchen_2265 Never mentioned the US. I'm talking about Germany. Specifically I'm talking about the "undesireable" kids. I never said anything that would support or contradict that statement, but ok thanks.
@@maddiemaccheese8170 some things are just propaganda. Not trying to dampen what they did because they did commit genocide in the worst ways imaginable but if you go down some rabbit holes you'll see the stuff they added to sensationalize and make a profit off of what happened. Which is sick unless you directly were a victim of it.
@@maddiemaccheese8170 that's why the entire "holocaust denial" narrative is growing sadly. Because that 100% did happen but, a good bit of what is being said really was to make it a bigger story which raised red flags with a lot of people.
That's why we need to stop dehumanizing nazi Germany. Because the amount of people that actually believe that they wouldn't be apart of a government like that is utterly terrifying. Before the propaganda and echo chambers started they were like us. If people can't grasp how they'll condone something of that nature then history will be repeated. Especially with people within the left because they are so blind to the fact that meeting intolerance with intolerance only makes situations worse. Not better.
@@kevingarth6682 I never said any of this was untrue. The U.S. has committed atrocities as well, obviously. But I wasn't talking about the U.S. I was talking about Nazi Germany.
My great-grandmother was involved in this, thought not willingly. The nazis showed up to her house and took her young son (blonde haired/blue eyed) and said he'd be "educated properly". She never saw him again. This was 1939 in Poland, her name was Helena Canterbury, she fled to the US the same year after her property and all were seized
Was that kid your grandpa or great uncle you never met? Sorry if this is rüde im just genuinly curioues
@@lancerutland2278 He was my great grandmothers son so I guess that would make him my grandfather had he lived
@@jimmyjimjims7483i think if he survived then he’s ur great uncle, I’m guessing your great grandma had more kids and that he was the sibling or half sibling of your grandparent
Have you done any genealogy testing to possibly find them? I’m assuming if you did it, you would eventually connect the tree to distant cousins.
@@jimmyjimjims7483That's not how that works. He would not be your grandfather lol
When I was a kid in a primarily Italian school in Canada, the other kids would call me a Nazi alien. Absolutely floored me as both sides of my family fought in the war against the Nazis, and I'm not even German. I'm Ukrainian on my mom's side, and Jewish/Native American on my dad's side. My great grandma on his side was sent to a Residential School. It was so freaking bizarre being called such cruel names by rich 100% white kids. I mean, I grew up on stories about my grandma on my mom's side yelling at Nazis and shaming them into leaving the family that took her in as their own alone. She had fled from the Holodomor going on in the Ukraine after losing most of her siblings, and she picked up languages so quickly that no one knew she wasn't German until after the war, which she spent shaming German soldiers and getting absolutely Hench doing farmwork when she wasn't standing between them and the food they wanted to steal. Unarmed, yelling at them to shoot her, a good German woman.
She ditched the German identity as soon as the war was over, and our names are very obviously not German.
Growing up in Germany, Guttenberg thought us we were Aryan . My grandpa saw the wall built and I saw it come down ! I'm an army brat of many generations. And it's still going on!
When I came to Canada I was picked on and bullied and alot of racism, bigotry. Lots of name calling and "Nazi" ... I hate that word. We weren't allowed to say it as a kid lol it's like saying the n word here . I never heard that word before moving to Canada ...
Well let’s remember which side the Italians were on
The treatment of the kids in non German countries is the saddest thing in this tragic story. Nazis being awful people is old news, but children who had no choice in their parentage being mistreated by whole societies? Revolting.
But the US has its own problem with native and hispanic children. You think it's not related but the Nazis actually quoted the US and our treatment of Hispanic people going through border inspections. The border was largely open and people would crossover to work on seasonal farming and cross back. Until the eugenics movement started. Then they started making the people women and children included strip naked and then they were "inspected" and then sprayed with pesticides.
The Nazis got the gas chambers idea from us. And even now we have many lost children and people caged at the borders when technically it is legal to come her requesting asylum. The US is largely undeveloped west of the Mississippi and actually has plenty of room to redistribute people. We are actually in a severe workers shortage.
We cannot support the aging population. The reason people don't want to fix the broken system is more about racism and fear of the white race losing power. Hell by then many congressmen were actually working with Hitler and agreed with him.
They learned it from watching the US.
And the US is still awful with how they treat non-white kids.
Alas that was considered normal, especially in classical and medieval times, and is still practiced in some countries today. It's a twisted extreme of the instinct to ensure one's own lineage, and it's one of many reasons that too much power mustn't be concentrated in one place.
They are guilty by association which they neither have control nor Influence.
"5 replies" and i only see two. hurray for open discussion, youtube.
"concentration camp for children" has to be one of the most terrifying and depressing phrases I've ever heard.
@@wingsandbeer4208not when camp comes after it, it’s much darker with that word involved
@@wingsandbeer4208 Wait until you look up the definition of 'context'
@@wingsandbeer4208not for the last almost 100 years...
Wait till you hear about the ones on the US/Mexico border...
@@ScarsFromTomorrow1 Believe it or not, I was thinking about the US border one when I wrote the comment. I also know that standard concentration camps also housed children.
Excellent video. So disgusting and heartbreaking how the Nazis treated the stolen children. The amount of suffering they caused exceeds comprehension.
How about the children that were punished just for being a child of a German soldier?
@@sanangelo7926 are you seriously trying to apply 'whataboutism' to divert attention from and sympathize with NAZI's kidnapping kids?
@@sanangelo7926they weren’t treated well either but that doesn’t negate the suffering of others
@@sanangelo7926I don’t remember hearing any stories about kids of german soldiers being used as lab rats.
@@chancellorpalpatine4035 ,
I don't recall any actual evidence of Germans doing that either
What’s horrific is that I never learned anything about this in school. I knew the Nazis had a eugenics program but I didn’t know it was anything like this… thank you for posting this video, this knowledge NEEDS TO BE KNOWN
We never got past civil war in hs. So many things I learn as adult that should be have been taught in school. it sickens me.
I am from Germany and even in our history class it wasn't thought. We spoke about so many aspects of Nazi Germany and did spend many hours with learning about the Holocaust and euthanasia. But I learned about the Lebensborn project during personal research.
@@sasi-justsilenca3531 everything they tell you is lies. The 🔯 are Satanic worshippers. Your nation is being destroyed!
@@jcrow236 Many highschools skip over this sort of thing purposefully, just like how 99%of schools here in the U.S. outright avoid talking about neo slavery, and slavery after the 13th amendment
@@cliffdraco1771 the problem is unfortunately that the education plans are full of different topics and the number of lessons during a school year is limited. I had advanced history course and we spoke about the time of nationalism in depth. But there are other important historical topics too. German history isn't only 12 years of nationalism Weimar Republic, Colonialism, German Seperation and Reunion...
It's important but to learn about all the horrors caused during this time 10 school years wouldn't be enough.
my German grandmother went through this...she was "selected" despite she was married and had a small child - my father...she refused, and grandpa ended up at the Russian front as punishment...
In hs we had to do projects about different aspects of Nazi Germany. We were given a lot of latitude, very open perameters, and I observed a very interesting thing. Most people seemed to present a project based on an aspect of that time period that would have potentially affected them personally if they had lived there, then. My friend is very light complected, blue eyed blonde and she presented about the Aryan women breeding programs. I presented about how people from my religious background were treated. Another friend who was bi presented about how people who were suspected of being homosexual were treated. And so on. And I just found it fascinating how most of us were putting ourselves in that time and imagining what would happen to us, even when that wasn't the specific direction for the project.
Thats super cool :D
Sounds like y’all had a very creative class, making more of a project than expected. That’s a good thing
We had one in middle school and I talked about the experimentation. Those 8th graders didn’t know what hit them
@@naomizachery2303 You go honey! We must remember the most brutal history! My youngest son had to do a Mission project in third grade, we chose highlight the American Indian tragedy side of it. We need youth like yourself, intelligent and BOLD!
@@shaktipriestess2553 We had a good teacher😊
Every time I watch a video like this, I get super angry about the past, then I remember this is still happening in some countries, and I get even more pissed off.
Welcome to the human race.
@SoFreakinSoft hardly. Accepting it as a fact of human existence isn't permitting, it's acknowledgement of the futility in ever being liberated from that fact of humanity's existence - be it the infliction of cruelty or something mundane as wiping your arse. And the irony being in their cruelty they believed themselves committing a kindness - something to which every part of humanity in one degree or another is culpable for.
And it could happen here in the US soon if we white people don’t work to destroy white supremacy.
@@MorganHorse *Eyeroll* do you actually hear - in this case, read what you type, yourself or do you just autopilot on bullshit?
@@The_Phoenix_Saga Are you paying any attention to current events? Any attention to how millions are reacting to 2045?
I am so happy you mentioned Frida! She has had profound tragedy and stellar successes in life. She went on to be in one of the the biggest pop bands in history, lost her daughter, married a prince, and now is in a common law relationship with a Viscount. I would LOVE to have a biography of her life!
the woman receiving the diamond encrusted award looks dead inside. also there is a game on steam called My Child Lebensborn that centers around a single parent that adopts one of these children, specifically a lebensborn child born to a woman who lived in Norway and had the child with a Nazi soilder when Norway was being occupied by them. the game is really good in terms of game play and story in how it sheds a light on how horribly these children were treated and essentially blamed for the circumstances of their birth, and during the end credits they show quotes from lebensborn children from Norway about how they were treated. its a really heavy game but I think it handles the topic well and was not a topic I ever thought about until I found that game
Highly recommend the game My Child Lebensborn to anyone interested in this topic. Absolutely gut wrenching experience and it educated me about a topic I'd previously never heard of.
Thank you
Yes I always sign up for gut wrenching experiences whenever I find them my life isn't hard enough
A polish friend of mine was traveling in Germany.while drinking in a bar, a local had a few choice words about Poles which she took exception to. She retorted that the nazis had kidnapped polish women to breed with to improve the German people,or something to that extent. She basically implied Poles were the master race, I guess.. The bouncers had to remove him,he got so aggressive after that lol
Your friend is based, good for her
What? Was your friend the woman who made that retort or the man who aggressively reacted to said retort?
Nietzsche wrote that German never achieved anything without the admixture of Polish blood
@@boogerie Germany used to be a bunch of random divided tribes all fighting with petty kingdoms. Throw a random name out there like the Gauls, Vandals, or Saxons and they're probably involved equally so.
@@Barakon my friend is the polish woman. She loves Germany, and German people-she was there on vacay
I saw another video about a survivor of the Japanese military kidnapping young Korean and other girls from neighboring countries to be used by their soldiers with men in lines waiting their turn. Disgusting behavior.
They also did it to their own girls.
@@skyhawk_4526 How horrible!
Oh man, if you want to be disgusted by Japanese war crimes, look into the Rape of Nanking. Just don't do a Google Image Search.
"Comfort Women".
The christian bible says it the natural use of a woman. Women are to serve men and be in obedience and submission. It’s god ordained and natural.
I remember my history teaching us this. What a great teacher he was. He would just speak mostly but the way he spoke we learnt so much compared to teachers that force you to glue yourself to you text book
was he a big fan of programmed breeding? possibly had like 8 kids?
There’s a big difference between fascinating and deadly boring, that’s for sure!
Thank you for touching on what happened to those babies/ children who didn’t meet Nazi requirements. They were basically killed, by gassing , starvation or injection. Seen programs that don’t even mention this horrific behavior. Great job explaining what happened and why.
My husband was the most adorable blond haired blue eyed little boy. We’re polish and he says when he was little his grandparents would say that he’s lucky he wasn’t born in WW2 because the Nazis snatched kids who looked like him. It wasn’t scary to him, he was too young to understand, but it speaks to the horrors of living in occupied Poland (or anywhere).
"Sixteen Babies" is a good name for a band. "Shampoo the Wookie" is their debut album.
Anni-Frid Lyngstad of ABBA was born to a Norwegian Mother and a Father who was a Sergeant in the Nazi Armed Forces. After her birth, her Grandmother took her to Sweden to raise her.
ElizabethT45, thanks for explaining that to us 😌because Simon has such a heavy accent, and he talks really fast,so I missed part of what he said about Anni-Frid Lyngstad.
I like this channel though because it’s very educational.
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.
Mama Mia!
I wonder if genetic testing would help their descendants find closure or if it would cause more emotional distress for them. I don’t understand how anyone could blame children for being conceived & born.
Some things are too painful to revisit.
i honestly don't know what. either you realize you were raised to be a nazi or you realize not only that but also the fact that you had loving parents at one point who were killed by the very thing you were raised to be. horrible, horrible situation
Volunteer? Like hell.
A lot of the women were too afraid to refuse, or afraid they were going to starve
When I was young there was a family who had an adopted WWII German Arian bred child. We lived in NJ. My late mother said the little girl was gorgeous and blonde/blue eyed etc. She passed away from the pediatrician over prescribing penicillin for every sniffle etc (before they realized it could be dangerous to do so )
The one woman to have had 16 babies, that's basiclaly 12 years of being constantly pregnant, I couldn't imagine how awful that has to be, one out, another in, jeez... :S
She may have had many twins too.
Idk how good an idea that would be
That's the vision of the republican party! 🤣
Having 16 or more children was common in the pre condom era. My dad was one of 12 kids, he was born in 1920, and my mother was one of 13 (born in 1924) Both were born in England.
There were big families generally 5-10, anything higher, especially for one woman, must be hell. 😂 16 is craaazy, I can really on the medieval or bare sustenance type family, where it was kinda common for some, most, or all of your children die because llagues, food, winter, ect. Needing a woman to try for 16 kids. 😂🤷
I have a Navajo friend who was illegally adopted by that cult in Utah when she was born. She died recently at 70. "Taking" children off the Rez was common then. From what little I could track down these Utah people were also adopting these Natz babies. According to Vanity Fair at the time Rove worked for Bush, he was one of these babies adopted by a Utah family. His birth father was a Natz officer, Karl Rover.
Mormons are the worst.
So sorry to hear💔
That wasn’t adoption. It was kidnapping. They didn’t raise them like a parent would.
Do you mean Mormons?
@@redmoondesignbeth9119 Why do you spell Mormons as "Moormons"?
After learning about what they did in occupied countries, it has repeatedly crosses my mind when looking at my Polish children. They are adults now and still blonde, blue eyed & tall, especially my son. I joke that my son looks like an Aryan poster boy but it's really not funny. Another time and place & it could have been them that could have been stolen forever for some bat shit ideology that they were not part of. It's tragic beyond words
Same with my cousins, tall blond blue-eyed Lithuanians 😅 imma brunette, off to the oven i guess 🙃
My daughter is blond, but she was born with severe club foot. It makes me shudder to think if she'd been born 60 years earlier, they'd have killed her outright for her "defects," or maybe even experimented on her. Her dad has German lineage.
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.................
@@Abigailtyrhgf Wow. You make me ashamed to be white.
There, they're, their--learn a few fourth grade English lessons, please.
White people pushed the indigenous people off their lands, and stole it from them--FACT. Crying about how people who lived on this continent before Europeans even knew it existed, are crossing a border white people created, is just so bleeding ignorant!
Blaming the Jews for their own extermination at the hands of Nazis, is .... I just can't even grasp the level of stupidity exhibited in one post.
This as czech and slovak person that knows so many blond and blue eyed, who still stayed blond even though most people hair after puberty turn into light brown, I always think of what would have happened to them, so glad that I was born with brown hair and green eyes
As a mother
As a Polish Woman
As a parent of a boy with blond hair and blue eyes but being a woman with deep brown eyes and brown hair
As a human being
I'm appalled by the idea of taking , indoctrinating but also putting into labour camps and heartlessly killing any children
Also I cannot believe the level of indoctrination that these woman were to give up their children with no idea of where they will be taken just for their own comfort during pregnancy and twisted idea of nationalism
I'm a third-generation Polish American (intermixed with Pennsylvania Dutch German and a small amount of Bavarian from my mother and Polish and Midlands English from my father) and my paternal grandmother (whose parents immigrated from Galicia and Lodormeria, which were Habsburg lands) had dark hair and light blue eyes....common characteristics of Austrian Jews (of which shock jock Howard Stern is one and Hitler descended from), even though I have yet done that "spit-in-the-tube" test from Ancestry.
Yet this is what the Far-Left Red Fascists (Stalinist and Maoist Communists) want to do here in the US with our children.
Yes! Even if the conditions were seemingly ”good” and no one was ”forced” it was all based on indoctronation and propaganda. It was probably a strategic move to recrute young women. The whole idea of this program is so dehumanizing and sickening. I do kot get the obsession these kind of men and leaders have with breeding and making sure women keep on having children.
You brought a child in this world to be nothing but a slave to nazi g0vernm3nt.
You missed out one bullet point also
As a gumby with less then 80 i.q points
@@rwboa22 don't forget about your Philistine American heritage.
Okay as someone who speaks German let me break down Mutterehrenkreuz, it's pretty simple once you deconstruct it.
Mutter - Mother
Ehre (noun) - Honour/Glory (etc.)
Ehren (verb) - to honour/to venerate (etc.)
Kreuz - Cross (this is pronounced like "kroits")
A confusing thing about German for English speakers (and others alike) is that they combine multiple words into one instead of hyphenating or simply leaving spaces. We do in this English too but we generally limit it to about two words whereas in German the sky's the limit.
I know some EU countries don't allow home DNA tests as readily as the US does, I think anyone of Polish descent or anyone who thinks they were stolen should be allowed a private home DNA test.
I wonder if that would help. To assume that a pure race exists and would correlate with a specific country is a myth. Most it could tell you is if you have central european or slavic etc properties, but Europe is ethnically very mixed and also always has been pre WWII era, so that wouldn't help a lot.
I also doubt that those DNA yest results you see claiming somebody is 45% Italian or whatnot are even scientific at all. Being Italian is not a race but a way of life
@@wilhelminawyatt2634ethnicity exists…
Most polish people don't have "pure" polish genes. Before the war many people married internationally, polish history also made it so there's rarely anyone that doesn't have German, Russian or otherwise other European genes. DNA tests wouldn't do anything for a European person, unlike Americans that may have had their countries of origin forgotten or lost
The seemingly unending depths of horror committed by the NAZIs is what makes me hate how casually the term is tossed around these days. The reality of what that word represents should never be forgotten, trivialized, or mistaken. Yet, year after year, it seems to be losing more of its punch.
Oooooh da nazi boogeyman gonna get you watch out for da nazi boooogeyman
I agree with you. Nazi should be reserved for that absolute abomination of humanity. Instead today it seems to mean "I disagree with you", which removes the horror and stigma that should be associated with that label.
@@kennethng8346 Eugenics is the opposite of abomination it is the struggle against abomination
@@jikkh2x eugenics is abomination.
@@tatiana4050 abomiNATION duh
My paternal grandmother and her sister where both born in lebensborns and adopted by a couple who was fairly high in the party's hierarchy... not too proud of that but it is my family's history, I can't change that... not everyone was on the right side of events ^^
dig deep enough in any lineage, and you're bound to strike "oil" eventually... "right side" families being no exception. better to laugh it off.
greets from Israel ;-)
Hey at least you’re not blood related to nazis
It's not your fault, so you shouldn't be ashamed of it either. I think talking openly about this, like you do, helps avoiding something terrifying like national socialism to happen again, with the premise of people being intelligent enough to learn from such horrible mistakes. (Which they are apparently not, unfortunately.)
I’d say that’s a fun fact in your family history but otherwise do not see it as a stigma
💔❤️
Proud of you for your vibe, awareness, and attitude
"Himmler just had to Himmler" This made me ugly cackle. Thank you for these little bits of delight that make it easier to learn this information.
Calling an unborn child a "Nazi fetal parasite" is kind of sick in its own right.
Im Sorry, WHAT?!
Its hypocritical for them to have this mindset. And in my opinion if a person felt this way, it also shows a lot of imsecurity in their own beliefs. If you think that you have to resort to killing children to spread your beliefs then your beliefs dont have a basis that youre confident in.
Yeah, kinda wrong to say that about an innocent unborn child, that had no say at all in the awful actions of the parents.
I can tell all this outrage is from men. Its a kind of black humor that you will find with pregnant women. If you think about it, a fetus is rather parasitic.
Humans are the same as cattle to Nazis, especially those with a working uterus. The USA slavery also had breeding farms for slaves, once the transatlantic slave pipeline was cut off. It was very profitable for the slave states. Thomas Jefferson mentioned how beneficial it was for Virginia.
I really liked that you singled out Norway in this video
Because Norway was seen as the perfect Arian race to the Germans and with a population of less than 3 million Norway was the single biggest contributer to the lebensborn program
There was a stigma for these children all There life and it even followed in to their children
This is one thing I'm really ashamed of for my country 😔 this is a stain that we as a country must live with and never forget
Lest we commit the same crime all over
And yes it's kinda a nice story for Freda in ABBA but don't forget that
Because we actually don't know 12 to 15000 children was born in the program in Norway And we must never forget what we did to those children
So many lives ruined because we as a country wanted to give back som hatred to innocent children 😪😪😪😪
WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT WE DID TO THESE CHILDREN
AND YES OFFCORS THAT ALL SO GOES FOR ALL THE CHILDREN IN GERMANY AND POLAND RUSSIA AND ALL THE OTHER PLACES THAT THE NAZIS CORUPTED DURING WW2
just saying 🇧🇻
All politics aside, you put young strong attractive people together and babies are the result. The mothers had nothing to be ashamed of, it's human nature.
Jeg vil skylde på mine forfedre, men VI MÅ LÆRE av deres feil og skape et bedre Norge, we won’t forget the many women and children who suffered :(
@@quirky-catholic-girl det er ingen kvinner eller barn som skal verken dømes ei heller ha no SOM helst skyld i det som skjedde under andre verdenskrig
At vi som et land ble invadert av en gjeng med psykopater er ikke vår feil
Ei heller de kvinnene/ jentene som da ble dratt in i en verden av bedrag å brutte løfter
Vi som land ble brukt som et perfekt land for NASSENE å det er ikke vår feil
Så det VI SOM NORGE DA GJORDE MOT DE KVINNENE ER EN AV DE STØRSTE SKAMPLETTENE VI HAR SOM LAND I VÅR HISTORIE
DET ER DET SAMME SOM DET VI GJORDE MOT KRIGSEILERNE SOM ETTER OPP MOT 10 ÅR UTE IKKE FIKK NOR SOM HELST FOR DEN UVURDERLIG JOBBEN DE GJORDE
NORGE HAR FORTSATT MYE Å GJØRE OPP FOR ANG ANDRE VERDENSKRIG
MEN DET VIL NOK IKKE SKJE
SÅNN ER DET Å LEVE I VERDENS BESTE LAND GIT
just saying 🇧🇻
@@neohermitess420 Not to mention that when a country is occupied by a conquering army, not all babies are the result of enthusiastic consent, making the post war violence against the mother unjustifiable, and the treatment of the children absolutely heinous.
The 🔯 practice satanic worship. Do not believe there propoganda about WW2. They started the war. Never forget what the 🔯 has done to the world
Susan: 'Do you want to be monitized today?'
Simon:
😅😅😅😅
It sounds like a distopic future, but this happend nearly 100 years ago.
People have no clue how twisted the 20th century was.
@@SoakintheSchadenfreude>> That’s one of Jordan Peterson’s motivations.
I was just thinking that this sounds like The Handmaid's Tale
@@SoakintheSchadenfreudeYeah like so many dystopian novels are so horrid because they’re based off of events in history.
@@jaybee9269need citations, I don't like the guy but you're making us actual progressives look like Karens as they group us with you.
The mother receiving the award at 3.50 wears the expression most of us would have if we'd given birth to 16 children - catatonic disbelief.
The less siblings the better off the kids are
If you want a more emotionally raw experience of how the Lebensborn children were treated in Norway during that period I recommend the game "My Child Lebensborn" It's sort of a tamagotchi-esque storydriven game about taking care of a lebensborn child and the experience as their parent seeing how they are treated. It's not too long, but it's really sad.
I couldn’t even finish a video of someone playing it 😕😕
Why on earth would I want to do something like that
@@josephwilliams7995to educate yourself and look through the perspective of the parent/the child
My father’s uncle was born from one of these women who were ment to have Nazis babies. After WW2 ended he was stashed in a closet for months because being discovered, after he was found he put in an orphanage where he was adopted by an abusive couple. Later in life he came to America and married my fathers aunt. I was close to him great up, he and my father’s aunt divorced a few years back and he passed away last year.
How is he your fathers uncle, is he brother of your grandfather? I mean did your father's uncle had and knew his siblings? Just curious
@@draganakandic9409he became an uncle by marrying the aunt
If anyone is in Cologne Germany I highly recommend visiting the Gestapo HQ, the museum is so informative.
There is a game called my child lebensborn. You play as a parent who adopted a child. The child was from the program. It's all about it and super interesting
I would very much like to tell my families story of the lebensborn. My German grandmother married a man, who was a lebensborn child, and had my mother with him. Their relationship did not last he was vile to my grandmother and she divorced him (sometime in the 70s, divorce wasn't so forbidden at that time) I have never met my grandfather because he was a terrible father to my mother and at 19 my mother just started to ignore him. She basically cut him out of her life. The last time she spoke to him was shortly after I was born when he found out she was a mother from my grandma. My mother informed him that he would never have the pleasure to meet his grandchild and that he wouldn't exist in my life. Which was true. The man I grew up with thinking was my grandfather actually was just my grandmothers boyfriend, which I didn't find out about until I was in highschool. Blew my mind to know I had a biological grandfather I had never met. Anyways very off topic. But from my grandmother I found out that my bio grandfather was actually a lebensborn child. His mother (my great grandmother) had signed up for the program and got pregnant. Problem was this was right around the time they stopped the program. So very pregant she went home with a child she never intended to have. She was young, and unwed and now had a child she was supposed to just give away. She hated my grandfather because she never wanted him. Apparently she was incredibly abusive to my grandfather, my grandmother says this is why he was such a terrible man. Anyway just thought it was an interesting fact I learned about my own family. Had it not been for the lebensborn program I most likely wouldn't exist in this world. It's a very strange and surreal thought to have. Coming from such a terrible past and wondering if the world would be better had that past not happen, but then I wouldn't be here to live in it. Anyways have a great night. Loved all the information in this amazing video.
This does remind me of the historical fiction book, Someone named Eva. It makes a lot of sense of why her new "mother" was given medals and wanted her children to be the best of the best.
I read that book at highschool! It haunted me
THANK YOU! I was trying to remember the book I read on this topic and couldn’t remember the title.
Once again, there's a Star Trek reference that I'm surprised Simon didn't mention: in the Voyager two-part episode “The Killing Game” (season 4, episodes 18 & 19), much of the crew are involved in a Holodeck program involving the Nazi occupation of France. B’Elanna Torres is carrying the child of a German SS officer, even though she's part of the French resistance; when the Germans capture her resistance cell, the officer tells her “I will spare your life for now, but only because you are carrying a German child”.
much as I love star trek, I kinda feel like this video's about real life & mixing fiction into it dilutes the seriousness of the issue. Roxanne Dawson's baby was fine & had a mother who loved her, she was never in danger in the holodeck & that part of the storyline was only written to cover for the actor's real life pregnancy, it wasn't a topic they felt a passionate need to write into the show otherwise
Fun fact about that episode of Voyager, Roxann Dawson the actress that played Torres was heavily pregnant. Through out that whole season she wore something similar to a lab coat to hide the bump.
This gives me handmaids tale vibes
Every thing described in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is taken from historical accounts
Margaret Atwood had a hard rule when she wrote "The Handmaid's Tale" that she would not invent any atrocities that happened in her book. EVERY atrocity chronicled in The Handmaid's Tale would be one that has happened before, and documented.
@@goofusmaximus1482 very cool info
This was a well done video. It was informative, and to the point. I like Simon's few bits of humor that helped lighten the impact of the presentation without disrespecting the material.
Which is also a very sad chapter in the history of the WWII , together with the Lebensborn children, the cildren born in the war of German and allied soldiers who were rejected everywhere and these innocent children had to suffer from it for a lifetime. It broke your heart to read stories like this.
I remember my Grandma telling us how if her family hadn't escaped to the US she might have been taken away and given to a German family to raised as a Nazi and everyone else would been killed. Her family was Czech and her father was a vocally anti-Nazi newspaper editor in Prague, so they were on lists. She was only 3 at the time they escaped and she had blond hair and blue eyes, with some German ancestry. Everyone else in her family had dark hair, and hers darkened when she got older.
People so badly want life to mean something. It does,but the length people go to in order to feel like they matter can be the stuff of nightmares.
You are absolutely correct. Couldn’t have said it better myself
I don't think you lost your hair, I think it just migrated to your face. Glorious beard btw!
Brilliant theory!
bros sponsoring KEEPS but he LOST his hair 😂😂😂
@@MrPaxio Ngl I'd actually like to see a bald youtuber try to grow their hair back with that sponsor to prove that it's an effective treatement.
@@TimSlee1 Finasteride is an effective treatment and that’s what they are selling
Children shouldn't be punished which is not their crime nor should anyone but children are very vulnerable and susceptible to emotional and physical trauma.
Thanks! Always interesting to see what you dig up!
My great grandmother was given the „Mutterverdienstkreuz“, she had five children. After receiving it she went into the outhouse and threw it into the sh*t. It was not like she had wanted five children for the Führer. In a rather rural area she just didn’t have much of a choice.
Interesting..My story has 4 things in common with yours. Don’t say the town she lived in, but would it happen to be near Mainz? If so, we could be related.
@@annamelanie5151 She lived close to Wetzlar, so we‘re probably not related. But interesting that there were more women with this kind of attitude.
So she was rped by your great grandfather
"What a surprise"
@@ManiyaVinas Why do you assume there was any rape in it? As a couple they could very well have considered it together, seeing as the program offered more means for their future children than a common life and work in a rural area.
Victim mode - "ON"
Feels more like an Into The Shadows video than Today I found Out. But maybe the idea was to get this out to more people, just to remind them how evil that ideology is
Gotta spread that anti-German sentiment...
@@wesw9586 Not anti-German, anti-fascism and oppression.
@@wesw9586 obvious troll, 3/10, would not feed again
@@wesw9586 germans are nazis who have a taste for dictatorship and fascism? damn some1 gotta tell em
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@@wesw9586 these people will never stop there hatred of white people until they have lost truly every last but of there historical land.
My... My great grandmother had one of these medals. My mom got a f*cking tattoo of it on her shoulder-blade. F*cking hell...
Did your mom know what It actually meant??
Jesus lmao
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Oof
What's always puzzled me is the concept of arianism. The Aryans came from India and are black haired, brown-eyed and have a swarthy complexion--the opposite of the blonde haired blue-eyed Germans. The Nazis knew this, they weren't intellectually impaired. So why?
Nazis were into goofy myths like Atlantis and the giants of Thule. The also took an interest in Tibet which is hardly a Nordic country. Nazism was more psuedo-science than science
It’s the white version of the ‘We wuz kangz’ meme.
I feel like there’s something to be said about the importance of manufacturing a mythos in order to try and solidify the “canon” of your ideology, therefore making it acceptable or justified in the eyes of a historical narrative. None of what they claimed about German or Aryan heritage makes any sense, especially from a migrational perspective of human history, but if it’s convincing enough to feed an impressionable population while they’re still in their earliest years of education, eventually you have generations repeating the same narrative. Quite terrible, and I agree, definitely laughable
actually the historical Aryans were from modern day Northern Iran / Armenia / Gorgia where practically all 'caucasian' (its in the name) people originate from.
um the nazi aryans were aliens who came to earth and had psychic powers they were blonde blue eye etc then bred with the lower humans and lost their powers
It will forever shock me every time I hear about more and more things that happen during this time. My mind can’t comprehend how so many people can be so cruel. We like to think that evil people aren’t common but they’re everywhere
Every time I think I know about the rough points that happened, I’m forced to find out they were worse. So, so much worse and so very aware of what they were doing.
It's basically one step removed from the handmaid's tale
Have been taught about this my entire life. But for me the best line was “Nazi fetal parasite”. What a great line.
Ya i loved that!
@@Kitmuri Racism has nothing to do with Simon’s line. If your family was in Germany at this time like mine and didn’t follow the Nazi line, you were never seen again! It wasn’t just Jews. My grandmother was tortured in ways you could never imagine.
Nazis are disgusting human beings
Remember, the sins of the father are not the sins of the child until the child decides to follow in his footsteps & commit their own.
I pray for those who grew up never had any wonderful childhood because of those who took advantage of them.
The children deserve so much better💔
If history doesn't make you at little uncomfortable, you are either from the winning side or being lied to.
his story: take it light. It is in the name, that it isn´t true.
Heart breaking. Thanks for making this video. I hope this sort of human atrocity never happens again.
It's happening right now and much worse.
@@linemanap not rly worse but still not great.
@@aiapihud4344 there's a global genocide of Europeans happening right now........
@@Abigailtyrhgf what are you on about?
@@aiapihud4344 after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.
Such a wicked thing to do. I can't imagine the huge amount of people who's lives were ruined. Such a lot of suffering.
3:00 Give the man who wrote this joke a raise.
Not everyone can make me laugh that hard in a video about such topics
My kid is an English teacher who is also proficient in both German and Dutch. I can't wait for her to see this. 😂
Three times I played that back. How did he say it with a straight face
@@dominicwaghorn6459three times i played it back and i still dont get it-
You can find said man now hosting our channel Highlight History. :-)
Yes! 😅😅😅
This is the first video I have watched by Simon Whistler, and I regret that I took so long to see his work. His voice and his image alone, with photos to the side, is overwhelmingly enough to have kept me spell bound all the way through. He was born to do this, I think. I shall find and watch everything he has done.
I love how you describe the German language as a keyboard-smash like Welsh isn't out there. Existing.
Marta Kirsten, who played the older sister in “Lost in Space”, was a Lebensborn child.
You mean the series from the 1960s? Wow.
BTW completely unrelated, as a kid I had a fan crush on the girl who played the younger daughter Penny. She also had a role in The Sound of Music.
@@PapagenoX09 Yes.
Didn’t know that!
The former use of ~"German brat" (Tysk-unge in Swedish) was something that we were told about pretty early in life here in Sweden.
I am definitely *not* proud of being a Swede when it comes to the 2nd World War. ("Neutral" my @$$)
My grandmothers mother (I think that's right) helped the Norwegian people and smuggled things over the border to Norway, at the risk of her life, so it's very nice to know that my family wasn't a-holes at least.
We're Sami/Sapmi, which makes my ancestors actions even braver.
This I am thankful for.
Growing up in Germany ,I was told I'm Aryan. And I'm an army brat too ! Lol 😅
I remember watching this film Europa, Europa as a young teenager and boy it messed me up. To this day, it's probably the hardest but greatest movie about WW2 Germany that I've seen
Europa park is fun!! 😊
Watch Europa the last battle
I have a sister who, in the early `90's, wanted to be a "breeder" for her boyfriend's little gang. When she told me, I was incredibly naive even though I am a year and a half older, I asked her, "Like a dog breeder? Like what they do with dogs?" This just made me think of that.
You have kids?
@@jakestablettableto9453 I do now! I'm 50 and have a 23 year old and an 18 year old.
@@3ch1dna07 ok, hopefully they can avoid those types of people good luck to you and yours
@@jakestablettableto9453 thank you and the same to you!
if you don’t mind me asking, did your sister go through with it? or at least what was your reaction when she told you what she really meant?
It always fascinates and horrifies me when exposed to the premises and implementations of eugenics. And still to this day it exists hiding in plain sight, many government policies and NGO's around world at their core a driven by the warped and repugnant notions that are the foundation of eugenicists' thinking
The Gates Foundation has entered the chat!
Prove it
Specific examples, please?
Such as?
First; instead of specific instances I will offer up a litmus test.
1 Promotes genocide
2 Advocates for mandatory sterilization based on race or genetic defect
3 Advocates for racial purity or racial homogenization
4 Advocates for the promotion or demotion of social status or opportunity of individuals based their racial or genetic disposition
If any above are a yes for a group or governmental policy's stated intent or demonstrated objective they align with eugenic philosophies.
Second; for those unwilling to discern for themselves I will give two examples
A. The Tuskegee Experiments - often thought to only be racial motivated, however it was more insidious than just that
B. Multiple attempts (in various countries) to legislate the mandatory sterilization of people with genetic defects, primarily those with Downs Syndrome
I had NO IDEA that ABBA member was a Lebensborn baby!!!
I was about to bring that up
She was not, her parents were a Norwegian Mother and a German Seargent in the German Army. I believe she was born in Norway, then her Grandmother took her and raised her in Sweden
Love how he pronounced Mädel as Maden. Bund deutscher Maden (Maggots) hits it a lot better honestly when talking about anything Nazi related.
haha, I was so confused at first when he kept saying 'Liebensborn' instead of 'Lebensborn' and kept thinking 'but... this certainly has nothing to do with love...'
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing........
As a Polish person, I'm really mad we are not taught about things like this in school. I was always sure that it's common knowledge, but some time ago I found out that my best friend had NO IDEA this even happened. Ever.
I'm just 14 and most things about history I know, I have researched myself. History lessons were always the bare minimum (my history teacher is a great woman, it's not her fault our system doesn't teach us a lot), and the books had a lot of text, but the smallest amount of information. Even when I'm looking at my history school book right now it just feels empty.
I can say that the stigma of this children also could affect people that weren't actually a product of a nazi soldier. My grandma was born right after the war to a single mother in the soviet union. And although her father was a Jewish soldier (the irony), because she had blonde hair and blue eyes and the typical Aryan girl, she told me lots of people were suspicious about her and giving her the side eye.
Why is there no documentary or feature film about this? There’s an Oliver Platt movie called The Infiltrator that barely touches on this topic but this overall needs to be better known.
There's a Czech film Pramen života, with goog ratings, you can find itmaybe with subtitles
I have this medal it was my grandmothers it's so heart breaking.
Medal?
Wow 😞🥰
I have a picture I believe my grandmother is wearing one
“Shampoo the Wookiee”
There’s a term I never wanted to hear
Wow, I had no idea that the lady from the band ABBA had a distant connection to this horrible legacy! ABBA was my favorite music group back when I was in high school. I was given one of their albums as a present for my 16th b-day.
Thanks for sharing this informative video with us.
So literally handmaid's tale
The U.S.A. has people with similar attitudes on "breeding stock" and a desire to force women to have the "right kind" of children for the "good" of the nation. Seems like the Supreme Court has several members that want this too.Other bad news: Kidnapping children is happening right now in parts of Ukraine. The eugenics movement is still active even after a century.
Being against human trafficking in the Ukraine is antisemitic
@@Tridd666 How? Your statement doesn’t make any sense. Do elaborate.
American here... Exactly! I'm terrified!
Right on the money! Is it happening now? Probably yes but very close , very close.
nobody gives a sht about Ukrainian children being kidnapped, not it cared about deportation to Siberia in the past, ethnic genocide etc. The world did nothing and is doing nothing but condemning.
Keeps was around when you were 25...it was just called Rogaine back then
Hey Simon. Another Yankee subscribes. Thank you for helping us teach the kids REAL history.
As opposed to..? Fake history? Lmao
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing.............
George Santos: QUICK KEVIN, WRITE THAT DOWN!
…god. I wouldn’t be surprised if the guy who wrote the bill that eventually overturned Roe v Wade (with some of the other wording in there) got the idea from THIS playbook.
…I’m pretty sure I read one of the “reasons” in the bill’s wording (paraphrasing here) was because of “a demand for adoptable newborns.” (Nevermind that…there are thousands of kids in state care who need loving homes or reunions. NOPE! Who cares about the kids already here; let’s just punish ciswomen and afab genders for the ol’ Two to Tango/sometimes sexual assault + deny access to medical care, and not just for reproductive health; ANY medication that can cause harm to a pregnancy, or a non-existant pregnancy…)
Thank god my state voted to protect ALL reproductive rights and the medical personnel involves. But the state ammendment nearly didn’t pass. And there were far more political ads Anti Legalizing Abortion than there were in favor of the bill/breaking down the wording of the bill.
I swear every horrifyingly regressive idea political conservatives have can either be sourced back to Nazi Germany, or mirrors Nazi Germany.
I often feel like im a fucked up person, then im reminded the nazis are a thing and i suddenly feel better and sick to my stomach at the same time. Better because im not that fucked up, but damn some of the shit they did is literally sickening.
Meh, I’m sure the reason youre disgusted by racial purity is also related to how fucked up you are
The Nazi's themselves aren't much better or worse than anyone else in modern society. What's fucked up were the mandates made by the leaders. Russian society isn't much better than the Nazi society, Stalin tells you to rape some kids, you just do it. Now replace Stalin with Putin's Prison boys and Ukraine is where it's happening instead of Poland this time. In the USA if leadership ever became systemically as demented as Russia's you'd see murder camps set up just like the Nazi's. And most people would probably go along with it if the alternative is being sent to those said camps.
I've never thought I was a fucked up person, wtf have you done to make you want to compare yourself to nazis to make yourself feel better
We are currently allowing children to take hormone blockers and cutting off healthy reproductive organs.
after the 🔯 destroyed Germany they took over all of Europe and North America. They then demonized any form of Love for white people and respect for there historical homelands. Calling any white person who tries to defend there people's interests a Nazi. Then they opened up mass immigration and specifically privileged non white immigrants to invade. Now white people are becoming minorities in almost all of there countries and soon they will be removed from there lands all together. The society is currently so demonic that it equates white people wanting white babies with Nazism. Any mention of the current power structure gets white people banned from social media,debanked and fired from there job. The situation is very scary and the 🔯 don't seem to feel any remorse for what they are doing...............
Many in the US need to be reminded of this before we repeat history.
Russia's copying the medals for mass baby producers and the kidnapping of foreign children right now. Of course, a lot of their tactics are straight out of the Nazi playbook.
Unfortunately many of the people who need to hear this most will probably say ‘sounds good to me’ not realizing there’s a good chance they contain ‘bad blood’
@@gateauxq4604 then when there done doing what they wanted to do just like hitler they fail
@@gateauxq4604 Some people will still vote for it even if they have bad blood. Maybe 0.05% of the population want to be purged systemically there are services and hotlines to convince people that those opinions are wrong.
@@gateauxq4604 Maybe you're one of those people, you just don't know it.
Gosh and people act like the Handmaids tale was unrealistic.
That's only because they don't know their modern history. Atwood based everything in her books on real life atrocities.
I live in Łódź, a city in Poland that had both second biggest Jewish ghetto in Poland and concentration camp for Polish children. During the war nazis named the city Litzmannstadt. The camp for children was destroyed by the Nazis at the end of the war and there is almost nothing in that place to indicate that such horrible place existed. The kids and toddlers (as we know the youngest was about 2 years old) were treated the same way adult prisoners of camp were treated. There were also two units. One was "normal" and the other was for bedwetters. The kids of "normal" unit had straw and infested blankets (as far as I remember) and bedwetters were sleeping on just the frames that were reeking of urine and mould growing in wet wood. Of course there wasn't such thing as changing clothes when the child wet themselves.
The kids did jobs as straightening the nails with their hands, made starw shoes, belts for gas masks and backpacks elements.
The most common reason to be in a camp was homelessness or no parents to take care of the child. But there were also children of partisans that were killed or sent to Auschwitz. Other reasons were stealing or "worry" that the child will become neglected.
There was no death penalties or crematories yet at least 200 children died in only that one camp.
Anytime I hear someone question the depravity of humankind or start to think that tragedies and systematic cruelties could never happen, I make them watch videos like these.
You should tell the story of the Norwegian woman that had children with German men and after the war norway sent all the Norwegian mothers with Germans they where called the 'german girls' was a sad time for the Norwegian
War and occupation makes everyone do ugly things.
@@cbpd89 Germans are the most beautiful people on earth. Nothing ugly about It. What is ugly is mix racing and 🔯 worship.
@@Abigailtyrhgf go be egdy somewhere else kiddo
@@Abigailtyrhgf lol what? Germans and Brititish are the most ugliest nations. They killed all of their beautiful women on pyres. Easter european women are the most beautiful by standarts of the entire world.
Watching someone bold offering me Keeps to keep my hair is kinda iconic in its own way
Very educational. Speechless. As always, is the case in these stories.
Oh yes. German here, have known this for a long time, as here ex Lebensborn children often tried to find their real parents when they found out about their adoption.
Wow, Naoki Urasawa really did he research into German history when writing Monster. Amazing manga and anime, that delves into some deep topics like this in a thoughtful way. 10/10 would recommend
My mom was only 4 years old when sent to this "nutrition camp," within a prison camp where the rest of her family were prisoners. She was force fed. To this day (she is 86, now) she CANNOT eat spinach nor will she go near any large body of water.