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Hitler's stolen children : the shocking true story of the Nazi kidnapping conspiracy / Ingrid von Oelhafen & Tim Tate ; with Dr Dorothee Schmitz-K©œster.

by Oelhafen, Ingrid von.

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940.53161 O287h

Oelhafen, Ingrid von,

Lebensborn e.V. (Germany)

World War, 1939-1945 -- Children.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Yugoslav.

Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.

9781443460637 (pbk.)

ix, 275 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographies.

"In 1942, Erika, a baby girl from Yugoslavia, was taken for a 'medical' examination by the Nazi occupiers. Declared an 'Aryan', she was removed from her mother; 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."--Google Books.

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