Even as the Third Reich insisted on the need for more Lebensraum — living space — for the German people, the regime vigorously sought to expand its population. The SS-run Lebensborn program honored ...

OCEANSIDEOCEANSIDE — For most of his 77 years, Cardiff resident John Gundersen had a firm grasp on his life story, at least from age 2, when his adoptive parents collected him from a Norwegian ...

Folker Heinicke always had the feeling that something about his upbringing just wasn’t right. Raised in a German home full of wealth and privilege did not dull his notions that something was missing, ...

t the small elementary school in Jouy-sous-les-Côtes, in northeastern France, Gisèle Marc knew the rumor about her: that her parents were not her real parents, and her real mother must have been a ...

WERNIGERODE, Germany – Folker Heinicke always had the feeling that something about his upbringing just wasn’t right. Being raised in a German home full of wealth and privilege did not dull his notions ...

Local author Jennifer Coburn shines a light into a dark period of history. Her new novel, “Cradles of the Reich,” exposes an abstruse Nazi program, the Lebensborn Society. “It was a breeding program ...

Discover the aftermath of the Lebensborn program as the Third Reich collapsed. Children born under its care faced confusion, secrecy, and stigma, while the true purpose of the program remained ...

OSLO, Norway – Gathered at the Royal Christiania Hotel overlooking rain-swept Oslo, the men and women with their name tags and windbreakers could pass for a perfectly ordinary party of over-60s on an ...