The Weirdest Things The Nazis Did During Theirs Reign – Part Two

Hitler's "perfect Aryan babies" were in fact Jews

In 1935 Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda chief, has launched a national campaign. They were looking for the "perfect Aryan baby", precisely defined characteristics. But what Goebbels picked as the ideal beauty of the Nazi child was not white, blond hair and blue eyes, but a brunette with brown eyes.

Photo of "Nazi child" immediately flooded newspapers and found on postcards, flyers and posters of all forms.

And while most people were quite confused by this children's face, Jakob and Paulina Levinson were astounded when they on the cover of a Nazi family magazine "Sonne in Hause" saw their daughter Hesi, which was - a Jew.

They could not have foreseen that highlight the Berlin photographer Hans Balin, who six monts earlier photographed their daughter, will finish at Goebbels' competition. Balin actually hated the Nazis and he wanted to embarrass them. "I wanted the Nazis to turn out funny," admitted Balin. But, Levinson’s lives were threatened and they fled to Lithuania.

Although the Nazis later learned their mistake, they never found out who Hesi was or where her family was hiding. "That the Nazis knew who I really am, I would not be alive, " admitted 80-year-old Hesi who lives in America.

Lebensborn - Nazi baby factory

The Nazis seemed to be obsessed with babies. One example of this is the program "Lebensborn", within which were born thousands of children. It was a Nazi factory children devised by Heinrich Himmler.

The children are brought up in order to be in top mental condition and had to satisfy Nazi standards of beauty.

According to the Nazi regime, the children were on a strict diet, and their hair was treated with ultraviolet light, if the nurses suspected they begin to change color and it will not be the perfect blue.

Children were coming from different sides of the world, because the government encouraged the SS that, during the German conquest in Europe, 'come together' with beautiful girls. Those who would become pregnant, they would send to one of Lebensborn homes.

Unmarried mothers could freely stay and live with their children in their homes, so long as they accepted methods appropriate to the Nazi way of life, and abandoned children were raised by German families. Some kids were even abducted from neighboring countries, if they were pretty enough, and the Poles are estimate that they have lost more than 100,000 children during the war.

Darker and "less desirable" children were sent to concentration camps with their parents. Unfortunately, they would end up in the gas chambers.

Some parents in this program saw the salvation of their children, so they give them in order not to end up in concentration camps. However, many of them are simply taken away from their parents, even though they had Jewish origins. The appearance was enough for the program of growing up with Hitler's love and disdain for the Jewish race.

After the war, the Allies found several Lebensborn house full of children. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of children were in this program, and only 25,000 of them is reunited with biological parents.