SS Lebensborn Employment Document

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SS LEBENSBORN BIRTHING DOCUMENT

AN IMPORTANT NAZI DOCUMENT
IN THE NAME OF A YOUNG GIRL
WHO LIVED AT THE
SS ,,LEBENSBORN’’ e.V.
MOTHERS HOME
KLOSTERHEIDE, KURMARK

The innocent looking second-style Arbeitsbuch (Record of Employment) shown here contains the clues to an enormous amount of fascinating mid-20th century German history. It is the written record of the earliest adult years of an unmarried teenage girl from Berlin-Friedenau, who lived at the SS-Mutterheim at Klosterheide (Mark) while she gave birth to a Lebensborn child.

The teenage girl, Waltraud Stuhr, was issued this Arbeitsbuch on 9 November 1942 (a very special day in the SS calendar) by the Labor Office of Neuruppen, just three weeks after her arrival at “Home Kurmark” of the “SS-Lebensborn e.V.’’ (SS Wellspring of Life Registered Society). In that SS Home in a meadow some miles northwest of Berlin, Waltraud gave birth to an aryan baby to be raised for the Führer under Lebensborn Society rules.

Her Arbeitsbuch is clearly marked with all the pertinent data:
she was born in Berlin-Friedenau on 4 March 1926, so she was 16-1/2 years old when she arrived at the Lebensborn Home in Klosterheide.

The entries on page 2 of her Arbeitsbuch describe her as “German”, “unmarried”, and list her address as “SS-Motherhome Klosterheide”. On page 4 of the Arbeitsbuch it lists her previous experience as “NS Vorschulerin” (female post-grade school student) with no particular skills, at the “SS-Mutterheim”.

Stuhr’s baby was apparently born around the first of November 1942 and both were later transferred from the Lebensborn Home to the post-natal mother/child care center in the Nazi Hofbauer Stiftung at Potsdam-Hermannswerder. Her stay in the Lebensborn Home in Klosterheide was attested to on page 7 by the signature of a SS-Hauptsturmführer. Entry 2 on pages 6-7 of the Arbeitsbuch show that Waltraud stayed at the Stiftung from 17 November 1942 until 23 March 1944 while the baby grew to become an 18 month old toddler.

In November 1944 when the baby was two years old, Waltraud began her Pflichtjahr (Obligatory Labor Service Year) as a household helper in the home of Frau Walberg-Weckerle in Berlin.

Later she worked for Zeiss-Ikon AG in Berlin-Friedenau, and then the old Nazi Arbeitsbuch was abandoned.

Fortunately, this remarkable piece of history was not discarded. As Nazi identity documents go, this must be among the rarest of them all.

Countless books have been written, and countless movies and TV programs have been produced over the years in an attempt to provide the most minute details about the Allgemeine SS, the Waffen-SS, SS concentration camps and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler’s Lebensborn birthing homes.

None of those books or programs have ever depicted the identity document used by an unmarried woman while giving birth and post-natal care to a Lebensborn child. Few such documents survived the years of shame that Lebensborn mothers were required to endure in post-war Germany and Europe.

This unique document is complete and in very good used condition. This document is from the collection of Ray and Josephine Cowdery, authors on many books on Third Reich subjects including the full-color identity document book, "Papers Please!"

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