"Tyskerunge" Kid of a German, that is what this is about. We have had it on the telly many times here at home. I don't understand what the SS breeding programme has to do with this. The children in question are the result of german soldiers having love affairs with norwegian women during the war. Of course they were going to be bullied. But to demand that they should have government protection? The "partial" offer that the norwegian government made is because an investigation showed that the state could have acted differently.
If I read correctly as this was in the Finnish newspapers a week ago the news was that the Norwegian government was planning to send the kids to Australia claiming for instance that the kids were "mentally unstable" etc. That was some 9,000 children. Hard to say if that might have been good for them but Austalia refused to take them.
I'd say "sued by children of German soldiers". Not all Germans were Nazis and many probably didn't know a thing about the "Lebensborn" programme. Many were just young people who fell in love. The same thing happened everywhere. Remember this terrible story of Lithuanian women who worked in Germany, who had children with Germans and who in 1945 had to drown their infants collectively in the Rhine before returning to their country.
"Norwegian government was planning to send the kids to Australia" The English tried this course of action 200 years ago. Now we come back and thrash them at cricket. (Well everything actually.) Robin www.156Squadron.com
I don't see why they sue the Governement anyway. It is understandable that people were angry in 1945. It's nothing compared to what the Nazis did to their victims. Great Lancaster 156 Squadron! (watch the Ju88 coming)
Its 150 children of german/norwegian parents who mean the Norwegian Government should have been protected better from 1945 and up till now. I know a person who has a german grandfather, even he was bullied a bit because of it, but mostly for fun
Do you mean 150 children sue the government or that there were 150 mixed couples with children during the war in Norway?
150 people sue the government. They suffered social stigma after the war, and they feel that the government did too little to protect them.
Cheers. I thought so too. The amounts of children isued from mixed couples are taboo. There has been a study in some countries. In France there were many German pows who stayed after they were released in 1946-48. I know one great man who fought the Germans during the war and was granted 10 pows in 1945 for his construction factory. He treated the pows as equals and two never returned to Germany after their release. They are buried together in the same cemetery. Some were maried and settled in France with their German wives. Others were single and found a French wife. Ohters had met their girlfriend during the war and maried . On the whole we are talking about 100.000 children in two generations. The same thing happened in Germany but that was even more taboo. But many French pows stayed at farms and lead a comfortable life with the fraulein while the husband was at the front. Some pows stayed in Germany after the war and founde da family. It is a big taboo in both countires and most people will probably say it did not happen....Remember the sailor in the film Das Boot who was in love with a French girl. Things were terrible if people found out. Both lovers could be executed. but the same thing happened in other countries. One of the most terrible example is the one of the Lithuanian women who volunteered to work in the Reich and became pregnant. There was no way of returning to the Soviet Union with a German baby in 1945, so several dozens collectively decided to throw thier babies in the Rhine. They have kept that secret until 1991. One mother could raise her child by telling it was her sister. She told her daughter after the independence only.
