As its title makes clear, Children of Nuggets is the first Nuggets release to stretch beyond the '60s heyday of garage rock and psychedelic music. Instead of once again returning to that seemingly bottomless well – which has not only brought the original 1972 double LP, Nuggets, but such imitators as the Pebbles and Rubble series, plus Rhino's expanded four-disc 1998 box set and its 2001 sequel, which focused on singles from the U.K. and around the world – the four-disc box Children of Nuggets is devoted to bands from the '70s, '80s, and '90s (but primarily the '80s) that were inspired by the original Nuggets LP, along with other trashy, intoxicating rock and guitar pop from the '60s…
Men at Work were one of the more surprising success stories of the new wave era, rocketing out of Australia in 1982 to become the most successful artist of the year. With its Police-styled rhythms, catchy guitar hooks, wailing saxophones, and off-kilter sense of humor, the band's debut album, Business as Usual, became an international blockbuster, breaking the American record for the most weeks a debut spent at the top of the charts. Their funny, irreverent videos became MTV favorites, helping send "Who Can It Be Now?" and "Down Under" to number one. Men at Work's momentum sustained them through their second album, 1983's Cargo, before the bottom fell out of the band's popularity. After releasing Two Hearts in 1985, Men at Work broke up, becoming one of the better-remembered phenomena of new wave.
In Nazi Germany in the 1930's, a secret plan was hatched to create a so called Aryan Master Race of blond haired, blue eyed children. While millions of genetic undesirables were eliminated this elite was being bred to populate the new German reich. This project was called Lebensborn - the brainchild of SS chief Heinrich Himmler. He said: Should we succeed in establishing this Nordic race and from this seed bed produce a race of 200 million then the world will belong to us. The SS would be the sexual engine behind this world takeover bid. An eager Himmler ordered his men to mate, both in and out of wedlock, and claimed jubilantly "my men tell me with shining eyes that they have just had an illegitimate child." But he was frustrated by the time it took. To swell the numbers in the Lebensborn, the Nazis went on to kidnap 200000 Polish children for "Germanisation". 65 years after World War 2 ended this film reveals what became of some of those who were born and stolen to become the new master race. Guntram Weber reveals how he discovered he was the secret godson of Himmler. Folker Heinecketells how he was raised a German but discovered he was stolen from Poland. And Gisela Heidenreich tells how she grew up with a mother who helped Lebensborn create the Master Race.