WERNIGERODE, Germany – A group of Germans who as children were selected by the Nazis for their Aryan qualities as part of Adolf Hitler's quest to build a master race were gathering publicly Saturday ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their natural or foster parents often kept mum about the Lebensborn program; the German media didn't report on Himmler's racial experiments for decades. The destruction of thousands of German ...

WERNIGERODE, Germany, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Thousands of Germans conceived under the Nazi Lebensborn program are trying to come to terms with their heritage. S.S. chief Heinrich Himmler promoted the program ...