The Last Nazis: Children of the Master Race Page #5

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'claiming the programme was merely a socially progressive network for orphans and illegitimate children.

'After Nuremberg, many Lebensborn mothers, still loyal to the Reich,

'continued lying to their children about their origins.'

GISELA:
I felt it.

I felt that there was something...

It was always since I was a child, something was wrong with me.

My story is that I was born in a Lebensborn home in Oslo.

My mother was employee of the Lebensborn

and she was still working in Oslo.

Then she came back with this little baby to her sister and said,

"I brought you an orphan from Norway. Didn't you always want a girl?"

So I was brought up in my very first three years,

I thought my aunt was my mother and my cousins were my brothers.

'After the war,

'Gisela's uncle, the man she thought to be her father,

'was freed by the Allies and returned home.'

I was about three, three and a half.

The boys, who were some years older, said, "Papa is coming!"

So Gissie also said, "My papa is coming back!"

Then this guy said, "What is this SS bastard doing here in my family?"

This was the shock of my small life.

That I was a "SS bastard". I didn't know the word, of course.

Then he said, "This is not my child." And I was lost.

'When Gisela's real mother came forward,

'she was told yet another story about her daughter's origins.'

They told me my father died in Russia,

which was normal for my generation.

I didn't have a picture from him. This was also...

Other children whose fathers had been killed in the war,

they had pictures, she didn't have.

She said she was his fiancee.

She hadn't had time before he had to go to the war. And of course.

If he had come back, then of course they would have married.

I stopped asking because I felt this is a wound in my mother.

GUNTRAM:
After the war, the adults were obviously trying to stay out of politics.

They refused to talk about the past. They did not praise Hitler.

They did not praise national socialism,

but they defended many of the things that happened.

But as the years passed and orphans of the war came of age,

'countless stories emerged about the Nazi era.

'Gisela learned about Lebensborn from an article in the German press.

'It described the homes as anonymous breeding farms.'

GISELA:
Oh, my God! My father was a stud who had to produce children.

My mother was a whore?

This is how I found out I was a Lebensborn child.

They wrote it like this. This was horrible!

I had to survive believing I was the result of...

some...stud and whore.

And I didn't want to ask her.

She also read this article in a newspaper.

She never said one word to it.

I said, "If she doesn't talk, maybe it's true, maybe it's not."

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