I found this page by accident, searching a throwaway line from Band of Brothers (“Don’t. Salute. The Germans!”) and found this fascinating article: The generation of babies born to women who “fraternised” with the enemy in WWII.
Historians estimate that more than 800,000 children were born to German soldiers enforcing the four-year Nazi occupation of Europe, about 200,000 in France alone. Like Delorme, most were raised behind a veil of secrecy and shame, derided in school and unable to understand what they had done wrong. Many of their mothers had been shaved bald and paraded naked through the streets after the Germans retreated. Others, like Delorme’s, were jailed as traitors.
More than six decades later, with the children in their 60s, the beginning of a change is in the air. Some of Europe’s war babies have begun to talk among themselves, lamenting the shame they were made to feel. A growing number have decided to seek out their German families and fathers.
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