POZNAN, Poland — On a sunny April morning in 1944, 6-year-old Alodia Witaszek was combed and scrubbed, sitting in the children’s home that had primed her for membership in Hitler’s master race.
Orphans of war
Files tell how Nazis kidnapped and adopted ‘racially desirable’ children
Monday, May 7, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 12:26 p.m. CDT, Sunday, July 20, 2008
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