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"More than 70 years ago I was a 'gift' for Adolf Hitler. I was stolen as a baby to be part of one of the most terrible of all Nazi experiments: Lebensborn." In 1942 Erika, a baby girl from Sauerbrunn in Yugoslavia, was taken for a 'medical' examination by the Nazi occupiers. Declared an 'Aryan', she was removed from her mother and held in a children's home; her true identity erased, she became Ingrid von Oelhafen. The Lebensborn programme was the brainchild of Himmler: an extraordinary plan to create an Aryan master race. Later, as Ingrid began to uncover her true identity, the full scale of the scheme became clear - including the kidnapping of up to half a million babies like her, and the deliberate murder of children born into the programme who were deemed 'substandard'. Her research took her to little-known records of the Nuremberg Trials, and, ultimately, to Yugoslavia, where an extraordinary discovery revealed the full truth behind her story: the Nazis had substituted 'Ingrid' with another child, who had been raised as 'Erika' by her family. Written with insight and compassion, this is a powerful meditation on the personal legacy of Hitler's vision, of Germany's brutal past and of a divided Europe that for many years struggled to come to terms with its own history.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political ideologies

• Full title: Hitler's Forgotten Children
• Author: Ingrid von Oelhafen, Tim Tate
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781783961207
• ISBN: 9781783961207
• ID: 09117352
• Publisher: Elliott & Thompson Limited
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 244 × 164 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. May 2015

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