This photo shows a young Reinhard Bundt, a German "wolf child"
This photo shows a young Reinhard Bundt, a German "wolf child", who fled to Lithuania at the end of World War II, when he was just 10 years old. His mother told him on her death bed in their bombed-out house in Königsberg, present-day Kaliningrad: “You have to survive, go to Lithuania.” He went there all alone with nearly frostbitten feet in a cargo train in cold December.¹ "My heart is German, but I’m Lithuanian." – Reinhard Bundt In late 1944, towards the end of World War II, the Germans were losing and the Soviet Red Army was preparing to invade Germany. The people of the German territory of East Prussia were forbidden from fleeing their homes in the face of the terrifying nightmare that was on the horizon. However, in early 1945, they were eventually permitted to leave and many fled, but some children were left behind, most of whom were orphans as a result of the war. Thousands of German orphans fled into the forests in fear and they had to fend for themselve