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title: Die Mütter-Häuser des Lebensborns (SS-Kalender 1938)
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/muetter-haeuser-des-lebensborns-ss-kalender-1938/
description: 'A printed calendar page titled ''Die Mütter-Häuser des Lebensborns'' shows three photographs: the entrance gate at Steinhöring, the home at Steinhöring in…'
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** SS calendar page presenting homes of the SS-run Lebensborn association, which also placed children taken from occupied Europe. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Die Mütter-Häuser des Lebensborns (SS-Kalender 1938)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/muetter-haeuser-des-lebensborns-ss-kalender-1938.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/muetter-haeuser-des-lebensborns-ss-kalender-1938.jpg)

# Die Mütter-Häuser des Lebensborns (SS-Kalender 1938)

A printed calendar page titled 'Die Mütter-Häuser des Lebensborns' shows three photographs: the entrance gate at Steinhöring, the home at Steinhöring in Bavaria and the home Klosterheide near Lindow in the Mark, each with a short caption, and one photo credit line to the SS Race and Settlement Main Office archive.

## Text on the object

Original (German) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Blick in die Landschaft vom Eingangstor in Steinhöring
Das Heim Steinhöring in Bayern
Die Mütter-Häuser des „Lebensborns“
Phot.: Archiv Rasse- u. Siedlungshauptamt SS
Das Heim Klosterheide bei Lindow in der Mark
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
View of the landscape from the entrance gate in Steinhöring
The Steinhöring home in Bavaria
The Mothers' Houses of the 'Lebensborn'
Photo: Archive, Race and Settlement Main Office SS
The Klosterheide home near Lindow in the Mark
```

The 'SS' in the credit is printed as the two-rune SS sign.

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