Steeple Clock rose twice as high as this three-story hospital facility located in Nijmegen (Photo courtesy Walter Barrett) |
Pleasing Facade of the facility belies what it had been used for during the world era (Photo courtesy Walter Barrett) |
Baby Factory or "Bergmanianum" was a hospital facility dedicated to unwed mothers birthing children of Hitler's elite SS troops (Photo courtesy Walter Barrett)
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"Only for SS" reads this sign in both German and Dutch. Posted on the door of Hitler's Nijmegen "baby factory" ensuring that only the SS troops were admitted as they were considered to meet Hitler's image of the "ideal" Aryan man. SS troops and selected Aryan women were briefly paired up, without the inconvenience of marriage or family, to produce children for the Third Reich. |