Hitler's Forgotten Children (26 page)

Ingrid aged nearly three with Dietmar, the boy she believed to be her brother.

Hermann and Gisela von Oelhafen with Ingrid and Dietmar, Bandekow, summer 1944.

Ingrid aged eleven at Bad Salzuflen.

The Lebens-born home, Sonnenwiese, in 1942, from a wartime postcard.

Ingrid aged twenty-one with Hubertus, her foster-mother's son.

The Lebensborn logo, from the Lebensborn Society brochure, circa 1939.

The Nuremberg Laws' Racial Identification chart, 1935, showing the racial classifications between Germans, ‘
Mischelinge
' (‘crossbreeds') and Jews. Only those with four German grandparents were considered to be of German blood.

The four most senior Lebensborn officials, photographed before their trial at Nuremburg in 1947.

Heinrich Himmler inspects SS troops.

A Lebensborn baby is handed over to the care of the SS during the
Namensgebung
‘baptism' ritual inside a Lebensborn home.

An SS officer intones the
Namensgebung
liturgy, with the baby lying in front of an altar dedicated to Adolf Hitler.

A boy's head is measured using calipers during a racial examination, 1937.

The SS flag flies outside a Lebensborn home.

The schoolyard, Celje, former Yugoslavia, August 1942. Mothers plead in vain with German soldiers as their children are taken away for racial examination. Ingrid and her parents were among them;