Wolf children
Wolf children (German: Wolfskinder, Lithuanian: vilko vaikai, Russian: дети-волчата) or Little Germans (Lithuanian: vokietukai) were German and Prussian Lithuanian street children that existed in East Prussia at the end of World War II. Wolf children were mostly orphans left behind in the evacuation of East Prussia and Red Army invasion in early 1945, with many living homeless in the forests of East Prussia or adopted by Lithuanian families. == Evacuation of East Prussia == By the end of 1944, as World War II had irreparably turned against Nazi Germany, civilians were forbidden from evacuating the eastern territory of East Prussia even as the inevitable invasion of the Red Army came closer.