In 1936, Hildegard Trutz, a recent high school graduate, was selected as one of the Nazi regime’s “purebred” women. Trutz would later become the mistress of an SS officer and give birth to the Aryan children that Nazi leader Hitler so desperately desired.

Hildegard Trutz was one of the many women who belonged to a program called Lebensborn (meaning “fountain of life”) of the Nazi regime under the leadership of Nazi dictator Hitler.

This program was implemented by the Nazis to counteract the sharp decline in the birth rate in Germany, as well as to create the Aryan generation, the “superior race” according to Hitler’s eugenic theory.

It is estimated that some 20,000 children were born and raised during Hitler’s period of absolute power in Germany. These blond, blue-eyed Aryan children were raised primarily in Germany and Norway.

Hildegard Trutz, with her blond hair, blue eyes, tall stature, and wide hips and pelvis, which facilitated childbirth, was considered a perfect example of the “ideal German” woman Hitler sought to bear Aryan children: the perfect future generation that would lead the nation.

The reason Hildegard Trutz and many other German women decided to give birth to these pure-blooded Aryan children was that they were “mad” for Hitler and the Nazi regime. They believed they had immense value for the country.

By participating in the Lebensborn program, Trutz and the other girls had to sign documents relinquishing all rights and responsibilities related to their children because the children would become the property of the Nazi regime. Babies born under this program would be raised in special Nazi academies.

Tall, healthy, blond, and blue-eyed SS officers were selected as “partners” for Trutz and the other girls to father pure-blooded Aryan babies.

All the girls participating in this program used a false name and did not know the real name of the child’s father.

A few weeks after giving birth, the children were separated from their mothers. From that moment on, Trutz, like many other girls, knew nothing about the children they had borne.

After World War II ended, many of the children were adopted. Most of these children didn’t know how they came into the world.