Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Life must be unbearable - knowing Papa was a Nazi bastard....

The children of a Nazi program aimed at creating an "Aryan elite" met Saturday in Germany
in an effort to banish the specter that has haunted many of them since their birth.

The "Lebensborn" or "font of life" project was a series of homes run by Heinrich Himmler's SS
that were to provide the stock to help run a Nazi empire. The homes were popularised later
as stud farms for a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race.

Matthias Meissner said the meeting was necessary to bring the homes out in the open
and lay some of the myths about them to rest.

"The aim was to take the children out into the open, to encourage them to find their origins
- but also to show that the cliche of the blond-haired, blue-eyed stud farm is not correct," he said.

Many children were ostracised after the war and they have remained a sensitive topic that's seldom
discussed in Germany. There was the stigma of SS association -- was father a war criminal?