Of Pure Blood [Hardcover]

Clarissa Henry (Author), Marc Hillel (Author), Eric Mossbacher (Translator)

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Text: English, French (translation)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill (1976)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007028895X
• ISBN-13: 978-0070288959
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #848,304 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitive authority on LEBENSBORN, March 28, 2002

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Nelson Aspen "Author/Journalist" (Los Angeles & NYC, USA) - See all my reviews

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I found this book while researching my own, SACRED BLOOD. Not only was it enormously helpful, it is fascinating and meticulously researched, documented and presented. Anyone with interest in WWII, particularly Nazi atrocities, will be gripped by this incredible book.

5.0 out of 5 stars Thousand Year Selective Breeding, July 23, 2008

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Ron Braithwaite "Hummingbird God" (El Indio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This book records the "positive" aspect of the Nazi experiment. Documented are the initial efforts to breed the master race. Unbeknownst to most, the Nazis never claimed that the Germans were the "Master Race". They recognized that Germans and other northern Europeans had been "corrupted" by intermarriage with lesser peoples so, in order to produce a master race, selective breeding would be required.

People with Nordic features are bred like chickens. Blond children, belonging to Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Italian, Russian etc. parents, are kidnapped and delivered to "good" Nazi families for indoctrination and for use as future breeders. One-hundred thousand children disappear into Germany to be raised as good Germans. Infants produced by SS men and unmarried women with desired traits are placed in sterile creches where they will receive proper Nazi training.

It is systematic, calculated, sterile and terrifying. It also would have worked had not Germany not gone down to destruction. Interestingly, the Nazis believed their own philosophies and claimed that--should they be defeated--it would be because their enemies had more Aryans than they did. The inescapable logic was that if the Nazis could not possess people "of pure blood", it would have to destroy them.

More interesting and, arguably, more terrifying is the fact that should genetic progress continue at its present level, it should become possible to produce "ideal" humans in 9 short months rather than Hitler's 1,000 years.

Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico