{"product_id":"hitlers-forgotten-children-a-true-story-of-the-lebensborn-program-and-one-womans-search-for-her-real-identity-paperback","title":"Hitler's Forgotten Children: A True Story of the Lebensborn Program and One Woman's Search for Her Real Identity - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIngrid Von Oelhafen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eTim Tate\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHitler's Forgotten Children\u003c\/i\u003e is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program in World War 2. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCreated by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, was 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 was renamed Ingrid von Oelhafen. Many years later, Ingrid began to uncover the truth of her identity. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough the Nazis destroyed many Lebensborn records, Ingrid unearthed rare documents, including Nuremberg trial testimony about her own abduction. Following the evidence back to her place of birth, Ingrid discovered an even more shocking secret: a woman named Erika Matko, who as an infant had been given to Ingrid's mother as a replacement child. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eINCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Tate\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and bestselling author of nonfiction books, including \u003ci\u003eSlave Girl\u003c\/i\u003e. His films have been honored by Amnesty International, the Royal Television Society, UNESCO, and the International Documentary Association. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIngrid von Oelhafen \u003c\/b\u003e(Erika Matko) is a retired physical therapist living in Osnabruck, Germany. For more than twenty years she has been investigating her own extraordinary story and that of Lebensborn.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 06, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53575167934771,"sku":"9798217178292","price":31.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/s3xxpj-vy.myshopify.com\/products\/hitlers-forgotten-children-a-true-story-of-the-lebensborn-program-and-one-womans-search-for-her-real-identity-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}