State-supported programme called Lebensborn (meaning the 'fountain of life'), a Nazi initiative to produce a 'master race' in accordance with Nazi eugenics

It is estimated that some 20,000 babies were bred during the twelve years of the Third Reich, principally in Germany and Norway. Many were adopted after the war, by which time the records of their birth had been destroyed. To this day the majority have never been able to discover the terrible truth about their conception and birth.