Hitler's stolen children
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2019
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
During the Second World War Nazi officials searched for blonde blue-eyed children in the countries they had occupied. The children were removed from their families as part of a plan to build an Aryan master race. Ingrid Von Oelhafen grew up in Germany and only found out in her 50's that she had been born to Slovenian parents. At nine months old she was taken away and sent to a 'Lebensborn' children's home. She has been speaking to Kate Bissell about what happened during her childhood, and the effect it still has on her life.
Photo: Ingrid Von Oelhafen aged about two. Courtesy of Ingrid Von Oelhafen.
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| 1:39.0 | You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me Kate Bissle and today I'm taking you back to 1942 when the German Nazi regime extended its plans to breed a |
| 1:44.8 | super race of blonde blue-eyed children. |
| 1:47.7 | Originally the Nazi regime took in poor pregnant Aryan looking German women so they could give birth to babies for the so-called |
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