Abstract
At the opening of the 1952 conference in Wiesbaden, The Fate of Mixed-Blood Children in Germany, Erich Lifner, editor of the FrankfurterRundschau, was declared a hero of humanity. Lifiner was feted not for his journalistic achievement, but for becoming an adoptive father to Donatus, an interracial child born to a German refugee allegedly raped by an African American GI shortly after German defeat. Liiner's heroization underlined his exceptionality as a rare role model for socially responsible paternalism. Indeed his anecdotes chronicling Doni's integration into Lifner's white family emphasized less the personal relationship between adoptive father and son than the social implications and social utility of interracial fathering after National Socialism. Lifner's experience, that is, was packaged as a pedagogical example for the moral rehabilitation of German masculinity and the West German nation.'
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