By Kjersti Ericsson, Eva Simonsen
There is a hidden legacy of battle that's not often referred to: the kids of local civilians and enemy infantrymen. what's their destiny? This ebook finds the heritage of the millions of forgotten teenagers of worldwide struggle II, together with its prelude and aftermath throughout the Spanish Civil struggle and the Allied profession of Germany. It seems to be at liaisons among German squaddies and civilian girls within the occupied territories and the Nazi Lebensborn application of racial hygiene. It additionally considers the youngsters of African-American squaddies and German ladies. The authors talk about the rules followed in the direction of those youngsters by means of the Nazi specialists in addition to postwar nationwide governments. own tales from the youngsters themselves demonstrate the continuing soreness and disgrace of being kids of the enemy. Case reviews are taken from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Denmark and Spain.
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As soon as the war was over that situation changed. At the end of the war there were about 350,000 German soldiers in Norway. 15 Those marriages had dramatic consequences for many of these women and their children with German fathers. In August 1945 the Norwegian Government approved a provisional law of citizenship. Every Norwegian woman who had married a German soldier during the war or after immediately lost her Norwegian citizenship. She was to be regarded as a 02 ChildrenWW2 23/6/05 9:33 am Page 27 Under the Care of Lebensborn • 27 German citizen and sent to Germany.
It seems obvious that the loss of jobs was regarded as a form of punishment. In February 1947, local authorities in Oslo allowed 27 women to apply for jobs again, on the condition that they had been suspended without wages or had been without a job for at least one year. All around the country many women who had been seen with Germans or had German boyfriends were arrested and placed in prison or special camps for shorter or longer periods. By the end of May 1945, about 1,000 women had been arrested in Oslo.
The medical situation of her family had to be documented to the full extent. In addition, the German man had to guarantee that the bride could live with his family in Germany. After this scrutiny of family quality, each case would be sent to Germany and be decided by Hitler. 02 ChildrenWW2 23/6/05 9:33 am Page 24 24 • Kåre Olsen The SS and Lebensborn organizations tried to simplify the procedure, but without any success: in fact, during the war conditions became stricter, and the formal procedure might last for two or three years.