Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Norwegian Lebensborn

During WWII, the Germans conquered Norway, and found there some willing
collaborators, including the now famous Quisling, who was appointed Prime
Minister. Meanwhile the legal Government, including the Norwegian Monarchy
decamped to London. In Norway the SS found an ideal reservoir of blue-eyed,
blonde haired Aryans. It didn't take long for the German soldiers to find
Norwegian girlfriends, and the number of German-fathered babies began to grow.
Then the SS established a Norwegian branch of the Lebensborn program, that
was tasked with repopulating Eastern Europe with good Aryan stock, after the
Jews and the Slavs had been dispatched. As a result Norwegian women who
could prove that the father of their child was German were given excellent
facilities in which to give birth in Oslo. A Hospital and nurseries were
established specifically for this purpose in 1940. Nearly 10,000 babies were
born into this program, but they remained mostly in Norway, because the
fathers did not want them in Germany, where most of them had German wives
and families. The Germans typically kept excellent documentation on these
babies, each of which had a file that still exists in the Norwegian Central
Archives in Oslo, in which their racial characteristics are carefully noted.
After the war, these children and their mothers became pariahs in Norway.
Not only were the mothers considered traitresses, and had their hair cut off
and were mistreated, but the children were ostracized in Norwegian society.
The Norwegian Government tried to transfer them to Germany, but the Allies
would not allow this. Although they were Norwegian citizens, they were denied
all support by the Norwegian Government. The general opinion was that these
children would be racists like their fathers, and no-one wanted them. Some
managed to escape to Germany or to Sweden. Most, without State support,
managed to survive, but many committed suicide and many became drug
addicts and social misfits. One of them, whose mother took her to Sweden and
then died, is a member of the Abba singing group.
This is a little known footnote to WWII, that has only recently been exposed.
There is no doubt that the way the Norwegian State and people treated these
innocent children was deplorable. Yet they are certainly holier-than-thou
when it comes to giving Israel advice on how it should treat the Palestinians.
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.

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