With all sources of food exhausted, Mischa was killed and cannibalized by the group, but Lecter escaped. Lecter's parents, tutor, and family retainers were all killed by the resulting blast, and he and Mischa were held captive when a group of former Lithuanian Hilfswillige led by Nazi collaborator Vladis Grutas stormed and looted the lodge.

However, one winter's day in 1944 a Soviet tank stopped by the lodge demanding for water, only to be bombed by a Nazi Stuka. Lecter, who was 8 years old at the time, fled with his family to a lodge in the forest, where they spent three years feeding on animals.

In the winter of 1941, the castle was overrun by Nazi military forces who were taking part in Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union. When she grew old enough to wander, Lecter gave her a feeling of discovery. That fall, he was introduced to a baby sister, Mischa, with whom he formed a strong, affectionate bond. At age 6, he discovered an old edition of EuclidвЂ™s Elements with hand-drawn illustrations, which he used to determine the height of the castle towers over the summer. Lecter grew up well-educated under the eyes of his father, who out of silent curiosity spoiled him with learning English, German and Lithuanian every day in the castleвЂ™s study. Lecter was a distant cousin of the artist Balthus. Lecter himself would pursue this subject, to determine from the records of the Capponi Library if there was any true connection to Bevisangue, but he was unable to answer the question. Lecter may have also been descended from Giuliano Bevisangue ('Bevisangue' means 'Blood-Drinker'), a feared and ruthless figure in 12th-century Tuscany, and from the Machiavelli bloodline. Lecter was born with the rarest form of polydactyly, his left hand had six perfect fingers, the middle finger perfectly replicated. He is the eighth in his blood-line to bear his ancestor's forename. His mother, Madame Simonetta Sforza-Lecter, was descended from both the Visconti and Sforza families, who separately ruled Milan for a total of 250 years.

Hannibal Lecter was born on January 20th, 1933, within an ancient castle in Vilnius, Lithuania, into the wealthy aristocratic family that lived there his father, simply known as Count Lecter, was a descendant of the warlord ' Hannibal the Grim' (1365-1428), who defeated the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, and built the castle within five years, using as labor the soldiers he took prisoner.

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