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Outlook: Kidnapped by Nazis as a baby

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Four women in a line with babies taken during by the Lebensborn programme

03/01/2022 GMT

Kidnapped by Nazis as a baby

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Ingrid Von Oelhafen discovered she'd been part of an experiment during World War II

Ingrid Von Oelhafen discovered she'd been part of an experiment called the Lebensborn programme, which took babies to build a so-called "master race".

Ingrid Von Oelhafen grew up in Germany in the aftermath of the Second World War, and she never knew her biological parents. As she got older, she discovered that she had a different name on her official documents, Erika Matko. This remained a mystery for years, until she discovered that she'd been kidnapped by the Nazis as a baby during the war, and was entered into a sinister programme to cultivate a so-called 'master race'. Her biological family were still in Slovenia, and Ingrid was determined to track them down. Ingrid spoke to Emily Webb.

Ingrid was voiced by Christine Kavanagh

Dr Robert Raven is a spider expert from Australia, but it's an unusual profession for him to have chosen, given that he has a phobia of spiders. His job involves going into the outback, finding spiders and naming them. He told Emily Webb back in 2019 about some of the famous names he's given to the new species of spiders he's found.

Presenter: Emily Webb

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(Photo: Babies taken during by the Lebensborn programme. Credit: Getty Images/Keystone France)

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