Nazi euthanasia gassed, starved and plied lethal injectioins to thin the gene pool...
   will tomorrow,s transgressor genetically engineer our children and grandchildren



German officers examine Polish children of all ages, to determine whether they qualify as "Aryan."  Approximately 50,000 Polish children were taken from their families, transferred to the Reich and subjected to "Germanization" policies.  An estimated 250,000 children may have been stolen from their homes in Nazi conquered lands in Eastern Europe, in order to be evaluated to qualify to become “Aryan.”  Those who failed to meet the standards were transported to work camps if they were judged physically able to perform useful duties.  If not, they went East, back to Poland for the final solution. *




A child who has been selected for deportation, bids farewell to his family through the wire fence of the central prison, during the "Gehsperre" action in the Lodz ghetto.  The Gehsperre (or Sperre) action was the deportation action that took place in the Lodz ghetto between September 5 and 12, 1942, which resulted in the transport of over 15,000 Jews, mostly children under the age of 10, the elderly and the infirm, to their death in Chelmno.*

* Used with permission of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 
www.ushmm.org
The views or opinions expressed in this book and the context in which images are used, do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of, nor imply approval or endorsement by, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. to whom we are grateful for the use of their images.










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...contribute a newborn child to Hitler’s new Lebensborn Program and further the Aryan race.  Lorentz is skeptical, but with urging, eventually relents.

A nurse in Trondheim in 1940 when Norway is invaded, working with Norway's Resistance, Karin captures the heart of Svente, an injured Resistance fighter.  Once he's healed, they set out through Norway's mountain forest for a remote hideout.  But their campfire is spotted by a passing Nazi aircraft and paratroopers are dropped in the darkness.

Alena is pregnant with their second child.  Confronted by Lorentz, adamant  they keep this child, Alena finally relents.  When their daughter is three, returning unexpectedly on his first furlough, longing for marital bliss, Lorentz finds his daughter has disappeared and Alena is living with another man.

     Fast forward to 1965...
Living in Norway with her husband, Karin is reading the Sunday papers when an article catches her eye: fourteen Nazi-era nurses are on trial for cooperation with the Nazi 'Euthanasia Program, accused of killing thousands of disabled adults and children, through the administering of drug overdoses, starvation and gassing.  It’s 1965; how can this be, she wonders?  One on the fourteen accused nurses resembles a nickname her old friend Alena used when secretly meeting boyfriends.  With help from an old UNRRA coworker Karin rushes to Berlin, eventually remaining to help defend her old friend.



During visiting hours, a horrific tale of Alena’s Nazi years unfolds and carries Karin back to her own time in the Norwegian Resistance, reviving happy memories of poignant romance and sadness in the dangerous and remote Norwegian forest.


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