In 1936, Hildegard Trutz, who had just graduated from high school, was selected as one of the Nazi regime’s “pure-bred” women. Subsequently, Trutz was to become a mistress to an SS officer and give birth to the Aryan children that Nazi leader Hitler desperately desired.
Hildegard Trutz was one of many women who belonged to a program called Lebensborn (meaning “fount of life”) of the Nazi regime under the leadership of the Nazi dictator Hitler.
This program was implemented by the Nazis to counter the sharply declining birth rate in Germany as well as to create the Aryan generation – the “superior race” according to Hitler’s eugenics theory.
It is estimated that about 20,000 children were born and raised during the time of Hitler’s absolute power in Germany. These blonde, blue-eyed Aryan children were primarily raised in Germany and Norway.
Hildegard Trutz, with her blonde hair, blue eyes, tall stature, and large hips and pelvis, making childbirth easy, was considered a perfect example of the “ideal German” woman that Hitler sought to bear Aryan children – the perfect future generation that would lead the nation later.
The reason Hildegard Trutz and many other German women decided to give birth to these pure-bred Aryan children was that they were “crazy” about Hitler and the Nazi regime. They believed they held immense value for the country.
Upon participating in the Lebensborn program, Trutz and the other girls had to sign papers relinquishing all rights and duties concerning the children they bore because the children would become the property of the Nazi regime. The babies born under this program would be raised in special Nazi academies.
Tall, healthy, blue-eyed, and blonde SS officers were selected as “partners” for Trutz and the other girls to produce pure-bred Aryan babies.
Every girl participating in this program used a false name, and they also did not know the real name of the father of the child they were bearing.
A few weeks after giving birth, the children were separated from their mothers. From that point on, Trutz, like many other girls, knew nothing about the children they had borne.
After World War II ended, many of the children were adopted. Most of these children were unaware of how they came into the world.