Good evening everyone, how are you? All right about today's topic and it said “sins of the father”, something very particular hit my head, because I studied history and I am quite indulged with historical wars and everything regarding it. So the thing that comes to mind is the term lebensborn. Maybe I should give a little background on what this means. So during world war II and the years prior to it, in other words, steering the Nazi reign, Heinrich Himmler launched the lebensborn program. In this program they sponsored women to give birth to racially pure or Aryan children. Obviously for this women had to be impregnated by people of the SS, who were considered pure and of a superior race. At that time adoption was endorsed and these activities were also encouraged for the reason I just explained.
Anyway, how this is relevant to our topic today is very simple. Due to the whole Holocaust and Nazis losing the war and not being able to take on the world for themselves, The whole world collectively hated on the Nazis and it's merited. But the thing is these kids that are born from the lebensborn program, are also hated upon as well. Because obviously they are children of the Nazi descent. So whenever these children were out in the public, People shamed them, they always treated these kids as a different sort, alienating them. Not many of the people around the world would not see the issue with it because yes, they are of Nazi descent and they are children with no proper identity, except that they have Aryan blood. But now the question is, is it really their fault? Did they ask to be born as the supposedly superior race? The answer is always no. So why are they hated? Because their father (who is the father is an entirely different question), did some war crimes about 30 years before? I use ‘30 years’ because that's when these lebensborn children would be of age and we're facing the exact things that I'm describing now. So these children are getting hated upon, slandered, and disregarded because of someone who the abuser and the abused, don't know. So I believe this is worse than carrying the sins of the father, because you don't even know who sins you're carrying.
And then there is the Argentine-German breed. This is a different part of history. After the war, most Germans who could escape the nuremberg trials, escaped to Argentina. Obviously because Argentina provided safe passage for them. New identities, new country, and a fresh start for these war criminals. Now these people had children too. And they grew up. And then when they say I'm Argentine-German, The first question people ask is, where was your father in 1945? And they don't even wait for the answer. They are immediately discarded as war criminal children. This theory is flawed on two separate occasions. One is that he could be the child of a war criminal, or not. And even if the answer is yes, did the child commit war crimes?
Now that is the definition of carrying the sins of your father. These children who are quite old by today, had it very hard. Yes, we all hate that axis and what they did during the war and the years before it, but at the same time we should remember these very children that I described, had nothing to do with it. If we want to build a better future, we should move on from this culture and judge people based on their own actions. Not where someone else's.