convoluted and contentious
In all seriousness, but still not much help:
When it comes to any Lebensborn purported item be more skeptical than ever.
This is a contentious theme in collecting.
For one reason, little is really well known.
Another: the collecting world refrains from reading scholarly works (only a few of them anyway)
Another: Himmler knew well enough to keep this institution quiet and not have it written up about much.
Another: The conquering nations made a giant propaganda operation on this topic ala "SS stud farm" and the SS vets denounced it all as untrue. (I personally suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle )
and to confuse the issue even more: there was a Lebensborn organization /movement that was pre- overt nazi or SS involvement that may have nothing to do with the SS sponsored one.
In all seriousness, but still not much help:
When it comes to any Lebensborn purported item be more skeptical than ever.
This is a contentious theme in collecting.
For one reason, little is really well known.
Another: the collecting world refrains from reading scholarly works (only a few of them anyway)
Another: Himmler knew well enough to keep this institution quiet and not have it written up about much.
Another: The conquering nations made a giant propaganda operation on this topic ala "SS stud farm" and the SS vets denounced it all as untrue. (I personally suspect the truth is somewhere in the middle )
and to confuse the issue even more: there was a Lebensborn organization /movement that was pre- overt nazi or SS involvement that may have nothing to do with the SS sponsored one.
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