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Creat de Heinrich Himmler, programul Lebensborn a dus la răpirea a jumătate de milion de copii din toată Europa. Printr-un proces numit germanizare, aceștia trebuiau să devină generația următoare a rasei ariene stapânitoare, în cea de a doua fază a Soluției Finale.În vara anului 1942, părinților din Iugoslavia ocupată de naziști li s-a cerut să își supună copiii examenelor medicale menite a le evalua puritatea rasială. Erika Matko avea doar nouă luni când doctorii naziști au declarat-o aptă de a fi un „copil al lui Hitler“. Dusă în Germania și plasată unor părinți adoptivi corespunzători din punct de vedere politic, Erika a fost rebotezată Ingrid von Oelhafen. După mulți ani, Ingrid a început să descopere adevărul despre identitatea ei, scoțând la iveală multe documente rare, inclusiv mărturii de la procesele de la Nürnberg despre propria răpire.Copiii uitați ai lui Hitler este o carte de memorii tulburătoare, dar și o investigație devastatoare despre crimele teribile și despre scopul monstruos ale programului Lebensborn.Von Oelhafen aduce povestirii o dimensiune umana inegalabila. Kirkus Reviews

Im'Dritten Reich'wurden durch die SS-Organisation'Lebensborn'zahlreiche Kinder aus den besetzten Ländern Europas verschleppt – um von regimetreuen Familien in Deutschland adoptiert und aufgezogen zu werden. Der Nachwuchs sollte etwaige Kriegsverluste der deutschen Bevölkerung ausgleichen. Ingrid von Oelhafen erfährt erst sehr spät, dass auch sie eines dieser Lebensborn-Kinder war. Nach dem Tod ihrer Pflegemutter macht sie sich auf die Suche nach ihrer wahren Identität. Über lange Jahre scheitert sie, nicht zuletzt aufgrund der wenig entgegenkommenden Behörden. Endlich findet sie heraus, dass sie einer jugoslawischen Familie entrissen wurde – doch das wirft neue Fragen auf. Eine spannende Spurensuche und zugleich ein Lehrstück über den Umgang mit einem wenig aufgearbeiteten Teil der NS-Geschichte.

This dramatic exposé of Allied subterfuge and betrayal uncovers the treachery of undercover fascists and American Nazi spy rings during the height of World War II. Between 1939 and 1945, more than seventy Allied men and women were convicted—mostly in secret trials—of working to help Nazi Germany win the war. In the same period, hundreds of British Fascists were also interned without trial on specific and detailed evidence that they were spying for, or working on behalf of, Germany. Collectively, these men and women were part of a little-known Fifth Column: traitors who committed crimes including espionage, sabotage, communicating with enemy intelligence agents and attempting to cause disaffection amongst Allied troops. Hundreds of official files, released piecemeal and in remarkably haphazard fashion in the years between 2002 and 2017, reveal the truth about the Allied men and women who formed these spy rings. Several were part of international espionage rings based in the United States. If these men and women were, for the most part, lone wolves or members of small networks, others were much more dangerous. In 1940, during some of the darkest days of the war, two well-connected British Nazi sympathizers planned overlapping conspiracies to bring about a “fascist revolution.” These plots were foiled by Allied spymasters through radical—and often contentious—methods of investigation.

Hitler's Forgotten Children 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.Created 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. In 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.Though 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. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS

'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.

In 1981, Peter Sutcliffe, the'Yorkshire Ripper', was convicted of thirteen murders and seven attempted murders. All his proven victims were women: most were prostitutes.Astonishingly, however, this is not the whole truth. There is a still-secret story of how Sutcliffe's terrible reign of terror claimed at least twenty-two more lives and left five other victims with terrible injuries. These crimes - attacks on men as well as women - took place all over England, not just in his known killing fields of Yorkshire and Lancashire.Police and prosecution authorities have long known that Sutcliffe's reign of terror was far longer and far more widespread than the public has been led to believe. But the evidence has been locked away in the files and archives, ensuring that these murders and attempted murders remain unsolved today.As a result, the families of at least twenty-two murdered women have been cheated of their right to know how and why their loved ones died: the pain of living with that may diminish over time, but it never fades away completely. Five other victims survived his attacks: their plight, too, has never been officially acknowledged.Worse still, police blunders and subsequent suppression of evidence ensured that three entirely innocent men were imprisoned for murders committed by the Yorkshire Ripper. They each lost the best parts of their adult lives, locked up and forgotten in stinking cells for more than two decades.This book, by a former police Intelligence Officer, is the story not just of those long-cold killings, of the forgotten families and of three terrible miscarriages of justice. It also uncovers Peter Sutcliffe's real motive for murder - and reveals how he manipulated police, prosecutors and psychiatrists to ensure that he serves his sentence in the comfort of a psychiatric hospital rather than a prison cell.

Una storia vera che devono sapere tutti La vera storia del progetto Lebensborn, il più agghiacciante esperimento dei nazisti A soli 9 mesi, Erika Matko viene sottratta alla sua famiglia in Jugoslavia e trasferita in Germania per essere inserita all'interno di uno degli esperimenti più agghiaccianti condotti dal nazismo: il Lebensborn, un programma che prevedeva la creazione di una nuova razza ariana. La piccola Erika era stata selezionata perché, contrariamente ai suoi fratelli, aveva occhi azzurri e capelli biondi, ed era quindi considerata – secondo gli standard dei nazisti – ariana. La bambina viene affidata a dei genitori adottivi, che la ribattezzano Ingrid von Oelhafen, nascondendole la sua origine. Solo molti anni dopo Erika/Ingrid viene gradualmente a conoscenza della verità. Da quel momento, comincia il calvario per cercare la sua vera famiglia, un doloroso viaggio che passerà attraverso la scoperta delle atrocità commesse dai nazisti in nome del Lebensborn: il rapimento di decine e decine di migliaia di bambini destinati al programma e l'uccisione di molti altri che non rientravano negli standard previsti. Una volta arrivata nel suo paesino d'origine, però, Erika non troverà ancora pace: verrà a sapere che un'altra donna ha utilizzato il suo nome e ha vissuto la sua vita… L'orrore non finisce mai. Dalle parole di chi lo ha vissuto. «Scioccante… ho dovuto prendere dei momenti di pausa durante la lettura per riflettere. Questo è un importante documento, che chi si interessa alla storia del Terzo Reich o chi si preoccupa del disastroso impatto delle politiche basate sul concetto di supremazia ha il dovere di leggere.» «In un'epoca in cui quasi niente riesce a sconvolgere le coscienze occidentali, scopriamo che c'è ancora molto per cui sconvolgersi nelle storie vere. E la storia di Ingrid è dolorosamente vera. I figli segreti di Hitler è un libro che non dimenticherete in fretta dopo aver letto l'ultima pagina.» Ingrid Von Oelhafenè un'ex fisioterapista che vive in Germania, a Osnabrück. Per lunghi anni ha svolto ricerche sulla propria drammatica storia personale e sul progetto Lebensborn. Tim Tatedocumentarista pluripremiato, è autore televisivo di successo e autore di diversi bestseller in Inghilterra su temi d'inchiesta e attualità. Da qualche anno dirige una sua casa di produzione, la Interesting Films. Alcuni dei suoi documentari sono stati premiati da Amnesty International.

'I THOUGHT I'D GONE TO A PRISON'This was Hilda Newman's first impression when, at the age of 19, she left her parents'little terraced cottage in Lincolnshire and embarked on a new life as a lady's maid at Croome Court, the enormous stately home of Lord and Lady Coventry.The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gown; of tiaras and a Coronation. As personal maide to Lady Coventry, Hilda had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's most noble families.In her fascinating memoir of life upstairs and down, Hilda takes us back to a gilded era which would be brutally swept away by the Second World War. Hers is a very personal story of being transplanted from a tiny house with no bath or hot water to an eighteenth-century Neo-Palladian mansion surrounded by parkland landscaped by Lancelot'Capability'Brown.But it also the remarkable story of the family who service she entered - and that of Croome Court itself: during World War Two, it housed the Dutch Royal Family - who had fled the Nazi occupation - and it was also home to the top-secret RAF base where radar was developed. This is Hilda's story.

IN THEIR DAY THEY WERE BIGGER THAN BECKHAM. THEY WERE THE WORKING CLASS FACTORY GIRLS WHO PLAYED IN FRONT OF VAST CROWDS THROUGHT BRITAIN AND BECAME CELEBRITIES ACROSS THE WORLD. THEY THREATENED THE ENTIRE MALE-DOMINATED BASTION OF 20TH CENTURY FOOTBALL. SO THE FA PLOTTED TO SHUT THEM DOWN.Boxing Day 1920, and 53,000 men, women and children pack inside Goodison Park. The extraordinary crowds have come to watch two rivals play a match for charity. But this is no ordinary charity fixture. Eleven of the players are international celebrities and their team is the biggest draw in British - and world - football. Yet they are all full-time factory workers - and they are women. They are the ladies of Dick Kerr electrical works. And the male football establishment is terrified by them.With the men away fighting from 1914-1918, most of the workers in the factories of northern England were women. And many factories had a ladies'football team. In December 1917, the team from Dick Kerr factory challenged the ladies of the nearby Arundel Coulthard Foundry to a charity match. It was the first of 828 games for Dick Kerr Ladies as over the decades they scored more than 3,500 goals and raised the equivalent of?1million for an array of charities.By 1920, ladies'football was a major spectator sport. But away from the cheering terraces the bastions of professional men's football viewed the mass popularity of women's soccer with increasing alarm. On 5 December 1921 the Football Association met in London. After a brief debate behind closed doors it unanimously passed an urgent resolution: women's football was banned from all professional grounds.Dick Kerr Ladies did not give in, playing their matches on parkland with thousands of spectators turning up to watch. But constant pressure from the FA meant that one by one, teams began to fold. It would take until 1971 for the FA to lift its ban. Today, women's football has once again claimed a place in the global game. But it came too late for the pioneers of the sport: Preston Ladies - nee Dick Kerr Ladies - played their last match in 1969.Girls With Balls tells the extraordinary story of the time when women ruled the football world. With recollections from the last remaining member of the team from Dick Kerr's glory years and a treasure trove of contemporary photographs, this is the missing chapter in the history of football - its last great secret. It is a story of men with power, wealth and a fiefdom to protect. But above all, it is a story of girls with balls.

Boxing Day 1920, and 53,000 men, women and children pack inside Goodison Park. The extraordinary crowds have come to watch two local rivals play a match for charity. But this is no ordinary charity fixture. Eleven of the players are international celebrities and their team is the biggest draw in British—and world—football. Yet they are all full-time factory workers—and they are women. They are the ladies of Dick Kerr electrical works. And the male football establishment is terrified by them. With the men away fighting from 1914–1918, most of the workers in the factories of northern England were women. And many factories had a ladies'football team. In December 1917, the team from the Dick Kerr factory challenged the ladies of the nearby Arundel Coulthard Foundry to a charity match. It was the first of 828 games for Dick Kerr Ladies as over the decades they scored more than 3,500 goals and raised the equivalent of £1million for an array of charities. By 1920, ladies'football was a major spectator sport. But away from the cheering terraces the bastions of professional men's football viewed the mass popularity of women's soccer with increasing alarm. On December 5, 1921 the Football Association met in London. After a brief debate behind closed doors it unanimously passed an urgent resolution: women's football was banned from all professional football grounds. Dick Kerr Ladies did not give in, playing their matches on parkland with thousands of spectators turning up to watch. But constant pressure from the FA meant that one by one, teams began to fold. It would take until 1971 for the FA to lift its ban. Today, women's football has once again claimed a place in the global game. But it came too late for the pioneers of the sport: Preston Ladies—née Dick Kerr Ladies—played their last match in 1969. Girls With Balls tells the extraordinary story of the time when women ruled the football world. With recollections from the last remaining member of the team from Dick Kerr's glory years and a treasure trove of contemporary photographs, this is the missing chapter in the history of football, its last great secret. It is a story of men with power, wealth and a fiefdom to protect. But above all, it is a story of girls with balls.

In her bestselling book, Slave Girl, Sarah Forsyth told of her terrible ordeal as a young woman sex-trafficked from England to the Red Light District of Amsterdam - and of her dramatic escape from forced prostitution. But Sarah's journey from the dark back into light was far from over. Still addicted to drugs and drink, she struggled to cope with life, with love and with the marriage she desperately hoped would bring her happiness. It would take three more long and painful years to be rid of the terrible after-effects of sex slavery. But as she fought her draining battle to survive, Sarah came to realise that there was something she needed to do. It was a decision that would take her back into the modern scandal of sex trafficking - and back into the hell of Amsterdam's Red Light District.Now Sarah tells the incredible story of her very personal mental journey to find goodness within herself - and the shocking and painful physical journey to find the sex slaves she left behind. Both are journeys which will take all the strength, courage and love that she has. But if she is to survive, they are journeys she must make.

In the sequel to Slave Girl, a survivor of the sex trade details her recovery process, which she realizes must include a return to the site of her trauma to aid othersIn Slave Girl, Sarah Forsyth told of her terrible ordeal as a young woman sex-trafficked from England to the red-light district of Amsterdam, and of her dramatic escape from forced prostitution. But as she relates in this memoir, Sarah's journey from the dark back into light was far from over. She discusses how, still addicted to drugs and drink, she struggled to cope with life, with love, and with the marriage she desperately hoped would bring her happiness. It would take three more long and painful years to be rid of the terrible after-effects of sex slavery. But as she fought her draining battle to survive, Sarah came to realize that there was something she needed to do. It was a decision that would take her back into the modern scandal of sex trafficking—and back into the hell of Amsterdam's red-light district. This is the incredible story of her very personal mental journey to find goodness within herself, and the shocking and painful physical journey to find the sex slaves she left behind. Both are journeys which will take all the strength, courage, and love that she has—but if she is to survive, they are journeys she must make.