The SS nursery: Novelist recreates the Nazi maternity wards where babies were raised to swell the ranks of Himmler’s order
It’s hard to associate the Schutzstaffel (SS) with cots, swaddles and diapers, and their leader, Heinrich Himmler, is farm more likely to be seen visiting Auschwitz, Dachau, or Mauthausen than a nursery. But the sinister Order of the Death’s Head was very multifaceted and just as it was interested in archaeology, the occult sciences or sport, it was also, in its own way, interested in babies. Specifically those who, according to its insane criteria, had good racial heritage and the purest Aryan blood.
