Reply #9: I believe that there were 2 motivations. [View All]

[Fokker Trip]

I don't think it had much to do with sterility. I use the phrase "I think" because I haven't tracked down relevant sources, but I do remeber reading about this quite a while back as it made no sense to me either. Why kill your enemy and then go to all the trouble of bringing the baby to birth?

I think that the first reason was the incredible and long term pleasure that a sadist would take in raising the child of his most hated enemy and that that child would be raised to believe the exact opposite of his or her parents, becoming a tool or administrator of the right wing state. The step father would always know that he was violating the memory of parents for as long as that child was under his care. This is part of what is so chilling to me about the whole thing. The pure hatred that the right had for leftists, the dehumanization that was present is disturbingly similar to the kind of hate you see in the US for anything "Liberal" or "Socialist".

I think that the other reason is more in line historically with invasions where the invading army used widespread rape as a way to spread their own genetic material throughout the conquered population. This was a form of ethnic cleansing or ethnic takeover. Returning soldiers of the defeated nation would be demoralized by never knowing what children might have been fathered by the enemy rapists. Rape was widespread during the Russian taking of Berlin and I tend to assume every army does it if given the chance, I think its a very primitive impulse that can be awakened in percentage of otherwise normal seeming men.