Hitler’s Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman’s Search for Her Real Identity

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Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half one million children from across Europe. Through a process known as Germanization, they were to grow to be the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second one phase of the Final Solution. 

In the summer of 1942, parents across Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia were required to submit their children to medical checks designed to assess racial purity. One such child, Erika Matko, used to be nine months old when Nazi doctors declared her fit to be a “Child of Hitler.” Taken to Germany and placed with politically vetted foster parents, Erika used to be renamed Ingrid von Oelhafen. Many years later, Ingrid started to uncover the truth of her identity.

Though the Nazis destroyed many Lebensborn records, Ingrid unearthed rare documents, including Nuremberg trial testimony about her own abduction. Following the evidence back to her homeland, Ingrid came upon an much more shocking secret: a woman named Erika Matko, who as an infant had been given to Ingrid’s mother as an alternative child. 

Hitler’s Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program.

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