A former volunteer of the German Waffen-SS Walter Frisch, who was convicted in Denmark after World War II for treason and collaboration, became a sperm donor in the 1960s. He participated in a secret pioneering program by Swedish doctors from the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. The number of his descendants could reach hundreds. This was reported by the Danish public broadcaster DR.
It is known that Frisch had one child with his wife, but the authors of the documentary film “The Secret of the Nazi Donor” managed to identify 15 of his descendants from Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Germany. Co-author of the documentary Hubinett does not rule out that the total number of Frisch’s children could reach hundreds. “Heinrich Himmler said that every SS officer should have at least four children. Are we the result of Nazi ideology?” pondered Mats Rydberg, one of Frisch’s sons, in the report.
After serving his prison sentence, Walter Frisch moved to Sweden. In the 1960s, he became a sperm donor when the ideas of so-called racial hygiene were still popular.
Reaction of the hospital and lack of documentation
According to DR, there is no documentation regarding Frisch’s sperm donation either at the Karolinska Hospital or in the Swedish national and regional archives. Representatives of the Karolinska Hospital refused to give an interview but commented on the suggestion that the institution could have involved the man in a “racial project”.
“If the choice of donor (sperm) was dictated by ideological considerations, this is unacceptable and deeply unethical,” the hospital emphasized.
Walter Frisch died in Sweden in 1992 and was buried in a cemetery in Stockholm.
Source: Gazeta.pl
