2 Vandaag: Children Without a Past – The Lebensborn

The perfect human being – a dream for centuries. Ever since science succeeded in manipulating human genes, a new moral and ethical debate about the ideal human being has got under way. Nazi Germany too worked on a human elite. In the homes of the “Lebensborn”, the SS tried to raise “super-Teutons”, as the charge ran at the Nuremberg trials years later. Later many legends grew up around the Lebensborn homes. The children who grew up there often knew nothing about their origins for a long time. We met three of them and tell their moving story.