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   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 sleep with SS officers in the hope of   
   producing an Aryan child   
      
   Submitted by Emma Mason   
   History Extra, historyextra.com   
   Monday, November 2, 2015   
      
   [Caption] German women carrying children believed to be   
   part of the Lebensborn programme, which aimed to raise   
   the birth rate of blonde-haired, blue-eyed 'Aryan'   
   children through interbreeding. (Photo by Keystone-   
   France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)   
      
   It is estimated that some 20,000 such babies were bred   
   during the 12 years of the Third Reich, principally in   
   Germany and Norway.   
      
   This bizarre tale, which you can read below in full,   
   features in Giles Milton's new curious history book,   
   Fascinating Footnotes From History.   
      
   Spanning 20 centuries and six continents, the book rounds   
   up 100 of the quirkiest historical happenings.   
      
   Here, courtesy of publisher John Murray, you can read the   
   extract 'The Woman Who Gave Birth for Hitler' . . .   
      
   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 Fuhrer 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. 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.'   
      
   Continues at:   
      
   http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/woman-who-gave-birth-hitler   
      
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