Revealing story about the mysterious Nazi organization "Lebensborn," which was intended to serve the SS in pursuing population policy and racial hygiene goals by systematically producing "hereditarily valuable" children. The film depicts an anti-Hitler Knight's Cross recipient with false papers who becomes a witness and victim of relevant events in a Lebensborn home, where 30 enthusiastic BDM girls and a number of SS hooligans and frontline soldiers have just moved in to "give the Führer a child."
Production
Shot in actual West Germany while memories were fresh.
Acting
Perschy's trapped vulnerability cuts through exploitation tropes.
Director
Werner Klingler
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Lebensborn was real: SS-run maternity homes for 'racially pure' births, stealing children from occupied countries. The film barely exaggerates.
Director Werner Klingler mostly made crime films and TV; this was his grim detour into Vergangenheitsbewältigung before the term existed.
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