Two SS officers kidnapped Aleksander Litau from the front yard of his home because of the way he looked – blond hair, blue eyes. He was taken to Łódź in Poland where he was examined and declared “worthy of Germanization”. Next, he spent about one year at Sonnenwiese (“Sun Meadow”), a large institutional “home” for Lebensborn children located in Kohren-Sahlis, near Leipzig.
Upon completing his re-education/adoption programme, he was given to a German couple for adoption. Heinrich Himmler himself had seen his photo and was “captivated by his Aryan appearance” so much that he personally made sure that the boy was adopted by a wealthy Nazi family. So, Aleksander Litau became Folker Heinecke, the only son of a Hamburg shipping magnate, Adalbert Heinecke. He found out the truth about his adoption after his adoptive parents’ death.
“I have had a good life and I loved my adoptive parents, even though they were Nazis. I was just without roots and it was these roots that caused me to spend over 30 years of my life looking for the secrets of the past … I had a good upbringing after the war. My parents gave me a good education, spells in London, Paris and Ireland. They believed in Nazism at the time but they weren’t war criminals and always did right by me.” Quotes from: https://dirkdeklein.net/2017/06/24/my-name-is-aleksander-a-lebensborn-victim/
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https://historycollection.com/the-weirdest-ways-children-were-treated-in-history/11/