* The first full account in English from a survivor of the Lebensborn programme, now in paperback.; * Ingrid's quest to discover her real identity is relayed in a gripping narrative that takes readers into the heart of the Lebensborn and the secrets of Germany's past.; * Personal story is supplemented by extensive archival research.; * Asks difficult questions about race and identity, at a time when the resurgence of nationalism and racial politics are dividing Europe.

'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.'

The Lebensborn programme was the brainchild of Himmler: an extraordinary plan to create an Aryan master race, leaving behind thousands of displaced victims in the wake of the Nazi regime.

In Hitler's Forgotten Children Ingrid von Oelhafen shares her incredible story as a child of the Lebensborn: a lonely childhood with a distant foster family; her painstaking and difficult search for answers in post-war Germany; and finally being reunited with her biological family - with one last shocking truth to be discovered.