Heinrich Himmler und die "arischen Kinder": Die Bedeutung des "guten Blutes" und die Rolle der Organisation Lebensborn e.V. in den Reden ihres Gründers

abstract: The Lebensborn program was an important instrument of Nazi racial policy. This article examines how Heinrich Himmler, the founder and long-time head of the Lebensborn, spoke about the organisation. It is based on Himmler's speeches in the Bundesarchiv Berlin-Lichterfelde. Those speeches in which the word "Lebensborn" appears were selected for analysis. The thesis of this article is that the founding myth of Lebensborn existed as part of the myth of good blood within the wider Nazi myth of the Greater German Reich.