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The "Nazi children" are children of the members of Nazi or Fascist parties established before or during World War II, mostly in scandinavian countries temporarily occupied by German forces. The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...
Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ...
Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II...
Children of Nazi party members
Although innocent of any war crime committed by their parents' generation, these children have felt themselves condemned by the crimes uncovered in the subsequent prosecution of their parents' generation after the end of World War II. As they grew to adolescence and adulthood in the 1960s, many of them harbored the feelings of guilt and shame which their parents rejected. A war crime is a punishable offense, under international (criminal) law, for violations of the law of war by any person or persons, military or civilian. ...
The 1960s decade refers to the years from 1960 to 1969, inclusive. ...
They lived with their identity in an inner exile until the late 1980s when some of them managed to present themselves officially. Dörte von Westernhagen, the German daughter of an SS officer, wrote about the Nazi children in the book "Die Kinder der Täter" in 1987. The same year the Norwegian NS child Bente Blehr refused anonymity when an interview with her was published in "Born Guilty", a collection of 12 interviews with NS children. The first autobiography by a Nazi child, dedicated to all of them, was also issued in Norway: "The Boy from Gimle" (1993) by Eystein Eggen. The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...
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The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...
Eystein Eggen (born 5 January 1944) is a Norwegian writer. ...
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Children of German soldiers in Norway Hitler considered the Norwegians to be even more "pure Aryans" than the Germans themselves, and the German authorities didn't prohibit soldiers from pursuing relationships with Norwegian women. In other occupied territories like Eastern Europe, such relationships were forbidden because of Nazi views that Slavs were an inferior race. The Slavic peoples are defined by their linguistic attainment of the Slavic languages. ...
The Lebensborn program in Norway Lebensborn was one of several programs initiated by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to secure the racial heredity of the Third Reich. The program served mainly as a welfare institution for racially valuable parents and children (see the article Lebensborn for more details). Heinrich Himmler Heinrich Himmler (October 7, 1900 - May 23, 1945) was the commander of the German Schutzstaffel and one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. ...
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Lebensborn was one of several programs initiated by Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to secure the racial heredity of the Third Reich. ...
In Norway a local Lebensborn office, Abteilung Lebensborn, was established in 1941, and given the task of supporting children of German soldiers and their Norwegian mothers, pursuant to German law (Hitlers Verordnung, July 28, 1942). The organization ran several homes where pregnant women could give birth. Facilities also served as permanent homes for eligible women until the end of the war. Additionally, the organization paid child support on behalf of the father, and covered other expenses, including medical bills, dental treatment and transportation.
In total, between 9 and 15 Lebensborn homes were established. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 12,000 children were born by a German father and a Norwegian mother during the war, 8,000 of these were registered by Abteilung Lebensborn. In 4,000 of these cases the father is known.
During and after the war, the Norwegians commonly referred to these children as tyskerunger, translating as "German-kids" or "Kraut kids", a derogatory term. (As a result of later recognition of their post-war mistreatment, the more diplomatic term krigsbarn (war-children) came into use and is now the generally accepted form).
Children of the Lebensborn program - post-war era After the Second World War the children and their mothers were viewed as outcasts by many among the general populace who felt antagonized by the war and everything that had to do with Germany. The children and their mothers experienced isolation and many children were bullied by other kids, and sometimes by adults, due to their origin. For a short period after the war, several thousand women were kept in temporary confinement, some losing their jobs. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
In a survey conducted by the Ministry of Social Affairs in 1945, the local government in one third of the counties expressed an unfavorable view of the war children. The same year the Ministry of Social Affairs briefly explored the possibility of reuniting the children and their mothers with surviving fathers in post-war Germany, but decided not to.
500 children who were still living in Lebensborn homes at the end of the war had to leave as homes were closed down. Some children were left to state custody during a time when such care was marked by strict rules, insufficient education, and, in some cases, even abuse. Approximately 20 children ended up in a mental institution in 1946 due to lack of space in other institutions and unsuccessful adoption attempts, where some remained past their 18th birthday.
Several mothers with their young children were shortly after the end of the war placed in prison like camps. The mothers were spitted at and their heads were shaved to mark them already in the first days of peace.
What worse is, many of these innocent children - several younger than five years of age - were after the war used in medical experiments similar to those performed on jewish children in Nazi concentration camps. These experiments were carried through by Norwegian scientists for the CIA and have long been hidden. The CIA hoped to find a drug that they could use on enemy soldiers to make them talk. They did not succeed, but some young children to Norwegian mothers and German fathers died during these experiments.
Financial and legal issues In 1950, diplomatic relations made it possible for the Norwegian government to collect child support from those fathers living in West-Germany and Austria, and as of 1953 such payments were made. Child support from fathers living in East-Germany was kept in locked accounts by the DDR regime until diplomatic relations between the two countries was established in 1975.
Some of the war children have tried to obtain official recognition for past mistreatment, which some claim equates to an attempt at genocide. In December 1999, 122 war children brought a claim before the courts (only 7 signed the claim, which was a case to test the boundaries of the law). The courts have found any claims void due to the statute of limitations. Genocide is defined by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) article 2 as any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing...
However, an arrangement in Norway allows citizens who have experienced neglect or mistreatment by failure of the state to apply for "simple compensation" (this arrangement is not subject to the statute of limitations). In July 2004 the government expanded this compensation program to include war children who had experienced only minor difficulties. The compensation rate is set to 20,000 - 200,000 NOK (up to 25,000 € / $30,000).
Recognition Since the mid-80s the fate of the war children has become well known and the government has admitted neglect. The Prime Minister of Norway apologized publicly in his New Years Eve speech in 2000.
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Books - Denn Du trägst meinen Namen. Das schwere Erbe der prominenten Nazi-Kinder Norbert und Stephan Lebert (2000) ISBN 3896671057
- Kare Olsen: Vater: Deutscher. - Das Schicksal der norwegischen Lebensbornkinder und ihrer Mütter von 1940 bis heute. Published 2002. (the authoritative resource on Lebensborn in Norway and available in Norwegian as: Krigens barn: De norske krigsbarna og deres mødre. Published: Aschehoug 1998. ISBN 8203290906)
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