Originally Posted by
rothaer
If you read the artiicle that you quote then you see that the figure of 200,000 does not refer to the number of kidnapped for Germanisation children.
In the comments here is written so much nonsense that it's too much to rectify. In brief some essentials:
1. The typological racial science, including nordicist fashion, was something that was popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Hitler himself did actually not connect to that and did not drive measures in the context of variability of Europeans. He stuck hard to the Jew / non-Jew topic and he disliked much Gypsies and generally exotics. The latter two thngs were common in quite all European populations including the USA.
2. In the policy of the Third Reich the topic of European typological races was irrelevant, with essentially one exception and that was the sphere of Himmler (the SS). Hitler tolerated this as well as Himmler's other esoteric and deviating political opinions, because Himmler seemed very useful and reliable to him. Himmler even propagated within the SS to bred out-of-wedlock children, which was against the official NSDAP policy. The subrace topic was a total fringe event in the carried out policy of the Third Reich.
3. The Third Reich policy referred almost exclusively to ethnicity, not to subrace.
4. The Lebensborn e. V. was an institution that cared for out-of-wedlock born children and their mothers, especially if the out-of-wedlock father was from the SS, but not only. It should give these children and their mothers a perspective in life and prevent abortions. The Lebensborn also cared for the out-of-wedlock born half-German children in some occupied countries, like Norway. They including their Norwegian mothers were totally rejected and socially persecuted in Norway (after the war they often got their hair cut off in Norway; btw. the Abba singer Anni-Frid is such a child) so in this context there was organised the voluntary possibility to come to Germany and then Germanise these half-German children.
5. When the SS did rob children from Poles (and also from anti-nationalsocialist ethnic Germans in Poland) that they persecuted for political reasons they used the already existent infra structure of the Lebensborn to care for these children too, before they were given to other German families. Also adoption wishes were partly met by this. From the view of the SS they did not rob children from another people but they allegedly "took back" Germans that had become politically assimilated in other peoples. And in this self-deception that subracial nordicism hobby of Himmler played a central role.
6. Also in the actual policy in occupied Poland subracial questions were irrelevant both to Poles and to ethnic Germans. Poles were treated badly, but on an ethnic basis only. There were and are a lot of bad opinions of Poles among Germans, but completely regardless of personal subrace. This is comparable to how English view Irish.
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