Lebensborn - Les Enfants de la honte

Walter Beaussert is a war baby, but for him, the experience will undoubtedly never end... Born officially on January 1, 1994, the Americans found him in 1945 at Steinhöring in Bavaria in a Lebensborn clinic. Repatriated to France, then bounced from orphanage to orphanage, Walter Beaussert knows almost nothing about his past. He blanks out the memory of his mother, he doesn't know who his father was, he doesn't know the origin of his name or even if he is really French. Created in 1935 by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn organization would foster the birth of around 90,000 children. "Lebensborn" maternity wards were established in Germany. They were reserved for children parented by the SS who were considered "racially pure Germanic" tracing their lineage back at least to 1750. In the course of tracing his roots, Walter Beaussert reveals the different phases of this policy : the selection, the maternity wards, the organized efforts to leave no trail, the mystery of a birth without memory.