An estimated 12,000 children were born in Norway under the Lebensborn program, Nazi Germany’s attempt to breed Hitler’s master race. Born of German soldiers and unmarried Aryan women, these children were often taken from their mothers and given to SS officers or other “racially pure” families to raise the blonde-haired and blue-eyed future generations of the Nazis’ wet dreams.
But with the fighting over, Hitler dead, and the Nazi regime toppled, many of these kids were given up for adoption, becoming the unwitting outlet for Norwegians built up frustrations and hatred for the collective trauma they survived. They were branded as children of the enemies. Nazi kids.
In My Child Lebensborn, you play as one of these adoptive parents. Living in a small provincial town, you juggle the mundane struggles of parenthood with the impossible task of trying to brace a child for the undeserved consequences of their birthright.
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