<div><b>A powerful first-person account from a child of the <i>Lebensborn</i>: the Nazis’ program to create an Aryan master race</b><br><br>In 1942 Erika, a baby girl from Sauerbrunn in Yugoslavia, was taken for a &quot;medical&quot; examination by the Nazi occupiers. Declared an &quot;Aryan,&quot; she was removed from her mother and held in a children’s home; her true identity erased, she became Ingrid von Oelhafen. The Lebensborn program 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 half a million babies like her, and the deliberate murder of children born into the program who were deemed &quot;substandard.&quot; 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 &quot;Ingrid&quot; with another child, who had been raised as &quot;Erika&quot; 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.</div>