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thursday, September 14, 1978
daily nebraskan
Illegitimate babies born in Nazi breeding experiments
The birth of a "test tube" baby in Britain has stirred
memories in West Germany of Nazi experiments with
human breeding before and during World War II.
About 2,800 children born at a Nazi maternity home
in the Bavarian village of Steinhoering were the off
spring of Adolf Hitler's experimenets. The experiments
did not involve laboratory conception as in Britain, but
rather a strict and sometimes forced selection of pros
pective parents with the aim of expanding the "Aryan"
(Caucasian) race.
The offspring of the Nazi's selective breeding experi
ments were born and reared within a specially chosen
SS (Elite Guard) society called "Lebensborn", which
means wellspring of life.
While some were the children of SS officers and their
wives, birth certificates show 90 percent of those born in
the clinic to be illegitimate. Many of them products of
liasons in an SS bordello in Munich, 20 miles to the west.
Most of the mothers were Germans. Other women with
appropriate features and ancestry were recruited from
Nazi-occupied western Europe, Scandinavia and the
Balkans. Fifteen maternity homes were scattered over the
Nazi Reich, including, France, Norway, Poland and Austria.
Wilderness charges
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The U.S. Forest Service has responded to a Sierra Club
accusation that the federal agency is misleading ranchers
over the impact of a proposal to set aside some Nebraska
lands as wilderness.
The Forest service proposed adding 8,088 acres near
Chadron to the national wilderness system.
Trie Sierra Club charged the service falsely alarmed
ranchers that livestock grazing would be phased out if
the lands become wilderness.
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"The women were sent to the Lebensborn clinic here
three months after becoming pregnant, and they got the
best possible medical care," Steinhoering's mayor, Karl
Stabernak said.
"Only a few took their babies with them after the
war," he said. "Most were afraid to go back home with
a Lebensborn baby."
Most Lebensborn children were raised by SS foster
families.
More than 200 abandoned children, ranging from in
fancy to age 4, and a few mothers and pregnant women
were found by U. S. troops who arrived in May 6, 1945.
Most of the mothers and officials had fled.
Lebensborn officials testified at the Nuremberg war
crimes trials that, altogether, 12,000 children were born
at the clinics.
Stamp out
President Anastasio Somoza says his troops have de
feated Sandinista guerrillas on all fronts and pursued
insurgents into Cost Rica in an effort to stamp out Nica
ragua's bloodiest revolt in 50 years.
But reports from battle zones around the country
and signs of resistance in the capital indicate continued
fighting.
University strike
Eastern Michigan University faculty members walked
off the job and urged students to join them as teachers
strikes continued around the nation Wednesday.
Classes were not formally canceled, but university
authorities said students could go home if no teachers
showed up. Over 630 faculty members were involved in
the walk-out.
University activities, programs united
The three branches of Campus Activities and Programs,
CAP-East, CAP-City and CAP-Culture Center are working
to meet the needs of student organizations.
In the past, east campus student organizations have
been self-sufficient, said Martin Wood, CAP-East program
consultant.
Wood said CAP-East is not taking away the self
sufficiency of east campus organizations, but is helping
by offering meeting room space, file cabinets and mail
boxes for these organizations.
CAP-East also will offer student organization event
registration, a directory to organizations, advising, acti
vity calendar, resource materials, workshops, new organi
zation development and financial services and advising.
CAP-City offers the same type of help to over 200
city campus organizations.
Sara Boatman, CAP director, said CAP-City helps
organizations plan events so they run smoothly and
within UNL policy.
She said CAP-City also helps new organizations
write their constitutions and gain recognition.
In addition, this branch provides a resource library,
newsletter and student workspace.
Cyrel Foote, culture center adviser, said the function
of his center is to serve the interests of ethnic minorities,
their lifestyles and their contributions to society.
Programs which may be offered at the center include
films, lectures, workshops, meetings, disco dances, musical
performances, parties and recreational activities.
Boatman said the special activities sponsored by the
three branches include UNL services day, an orientation
program for non-traditional students, as activity mart, the
new student hour on KRNU-FM campus radio and workshops.
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