We Are Wolves chapter sampler

This is a made-up story. The characters are not real, but the wolf children, the Wolfskinder , were real. The wolf children were German children left alone in East Prussia at the end of the Second World War. Lost or orphaned, thousands of these children survived by living wild in the forests and scavenging what food they could from farms, houses and the land. Many headed north to Lithuania, where life was also hard but food was more abundant. Some were secretly adopted by Lithuanian families, but they had to give up all traces of their German identity. Others worked

like slaves in return for food and shelter. The wolf children were victims of war.