THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH FOR HITLER: SHE WAS PART OF A STATE SUPPORTED PROGRAMME CALLED LEBENSBORN (MEANING THE 'FOUNTAIN OF LIFE').

 THE WOMAN WHO GAVE BIRTH FOR HITLER: SHE WAS PART OF A STATE SUPPORTED PROGRAMME CALLED LEBENSBORN (MEANING THE 'FOUNTAIN OF LIFE').

 

the woman who gave birth for Hitler: She was part of a state-supported programme called Lebensborn (meaning the 'fountain of life'),

I was mad about Adolf Hitler and our new better Germany,’ she later admitted. ‘I learned how tremendously valuable we young people were to Germany.’

The woman who gave birth for Hitler

In 1936, Nazi supporter and school graduate Hildegard Trutz was recruited as one of Germany's racially 'pure' women, chosen to have sex with SS officers in the hope of producing an Aryan child. 

She was part of a state-supported programme called Lebensborn (meaning the 'fountain of life'), a Nazi initiative to counteract falling birth rates in Germany and produce a 'master race' in accordance with Nazi eugenics

Hildegard Trutz had been a loyal supporter of the Nazis ever since Hitler came to power. 

She had joined the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM, the female equivalent of the Hitler Youth) in 1933 and loved attending its weekly meetings.

 ‘I was mad about Adolf Hitler and our new better Germany,’ she later admitted. ‘I learned how tremendously valuable we young people were to Germany.’

Trutz quickly became a figurehead of her local organization, in part because of her Germanic blonde hair and blue eyes.

 ‘I was pointed out as the perfect example of the Nordic woman,’ she said, ‘for besides my long legs and my long trunk, I had the broad hips and pelvis built for child-bearing.’

In 1936, when she was eighteen, Trutz finished her schooling and was at a loss as to what to do next. 

She chatted with a BDM leader who made a suggestion that was to change Trutz’s life for ever. 

‘If you don’t know what to do,’ said the leader, ‘why not give the Führer a child? What Germany needs more than anything is racially valuable stock.’

Trutz was unaware of the state-sponsored programme known as Lebensborn. Its aim was to raise the birth rate of blond-haired, blue-eyed ‘Aryan’ children through interbreeding.

wo Racially ‘pure’ women were chosen to sleep with SS officers in the hope that they would fall pregnant.

The BDM leader explained to her exactly how Lebensborn worked. She would be given a series of medical tests, along with a thorough investigation of her background.

 It was essential that she had no Jewish blood. Once given the all-clear, she would be able to select a breeding partner from a group of SS officers.

Trutz listened with growing enthusiasm. ‘It sounded wonderful,’ she later admitted, and she signed up immediately. 

Aware that her parents would disapprove, she told them she was undertaking a residential course in National Socialism.

She was escorted to an old castle in Bavaria, near the Tegernsee. There were forty other girls in residence and all were living under assumed names.

 ‘All you needed to be accepted there was a certificate of Aryan ancestry as far back at least as your great-grandparents.’

The castle itself was the height of luxury. There were common rooms for sports and games, a library, music room and even a cinema.

 According to Trutz: ‘The food was the best I have ever tasted; we didn’t have to work and there were masses of servants.’ She was by her own admission self-indulgent and lazy and she quickly learned to enjoy life in the castle.

The whole place was in the charge of a professor, a high-up SS doctor, who examined each of us very thoroughly as soon as we arrived,’ Trutz said. 

‘We had to make a statutory declaration that there had never been any cases of hereditary diseases, dipsomania or imbecility in our family.’

The professor also warned the girls that they would have to sign a document renouncing all claims to any children they produced, as they were to be the property of the state. 

They would be brought up in special institutions that would instil an absolute loyalty to the Nazi ideal.

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