Trauma „dobrej krwi” na podstawie tekstów faktograficznych na temat organizacji Lebensborn e.V. (Gisela Heidenreich i Ingrid von Oelhafen)

Abstract

GOOD BLOOD TRAUMA ON THE BASIS OF FACTUAL TEXTS ON THE ORGANISATION LEBENSBORN E.V. (GISELA HEIDENREICH AND INGRID VON OELHAFEN)

This article presents the memoir books of Ingrid von Oelhafen and Gisela Heidenreich. The authors are children of Lebensborn. Lebensborn was an institution functioning within the structures of the SS, officially operating as a welfare and charitable association. In reality, it was concerned with acquiring “good blood” for the Reich, mainly by fighting abortion and robbing children of non-German nationalities. There is a false myth in the culture about it, according to which the organisation’s houses were elite SS brothels and breeding houses. Von Oelhafen was kidnapped from her biological family as a child and subjected to a process of Germanisation. Heidenreich was born in a Lebensborn home as a child of declared Nazis. Both speak as mature women about the search for their own identity. A feeling that accompanied them throughout their lives was the shame of their own origins. Von Oelhafen and Heidenreich described their experiences of the Lebensborn organisation in autobiographical books, but emphasised that they represented not only themselves, but a whole group of people with similar life experiences. Therefore, the books will be interpreted using anautosociobiographical approach, i.e. they will be treated as the voices of a group
of people recognised by the National Socialists as representatives of the so-called
”good (Nordic) blood”, and thus as racially superior people.