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Polish children abducted as part of Nazi adoption plan
Alodia Witaszek, later Alice Wittke, was seized with hundreds of other Polish children by Lebensborn to Germanize them. The ITS files reveal Himmler orders to identify racially suitable children for Germanization, with Luise Dahl adopting Alodia and later Daria, while both sisters endured brutal conditions before reuniting postwar.
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Poznan
Poland
Alodia Witaszek
Alice Wittke
Matti
Luise Dahl
Paris
International Tracing Service
ITS
International Committee of the Red
Wilhelm
Munich
Lebensborn
Fountain of Life
Himmler
Norway
Warthegau
Alodia
Halina
Auschwitz
Daria
Lodz
Kalisz
Dahl
Doris Wittke
Salzburg
Austria
Stendal
Berlin
Halina Witaszek
Red
Dahls
Alice Dahl
Ane
Red Cross