Post by mouse on May 21, 2015 3:58:09 GMT -5
All my life I felt something was not right, that I wasn’t like other children, that I was not wanted,’ she says.
As many asc 270,000 children are said to have been fathered by Allied troops in occupied Germany and Austria after the war — to their continuing shame and hurt.
A recent study of 146 so-called ‘occupation children’ found that many are psychologically scarred. Like their mothers, they faced social stigma, whispered insults, marginalisation and discrimination.
The Third Reich had been defeated and Nazism was discredited, but many Germans retained a fervent nationalism and harboured resentment against the victors.
They regarded German women who slept with Allied soldiers as traitors who had lost all morals; their offspring were seen as ‘children of the enemy’.
They were frozen out of communities and denied rations and help because their mothers chose to love Allied troops.
Singled out for derision, they were branded ‘monkeys’ and their mothers were called ‘Tommy whores’ and ‘Yank tramps’.
“I was a child of shame even though it was the Americans who liberated us from the Nazis ”
Wilfried remembers being called ‘Tommy urchin’ as a small boy at school and not knowing why. Like many in his situation, he had been kept in the dark about his true parental origins.
Up to 14,000 German women married American soldiers in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Many joined their husbands in the U.S., but others were left behind, where they suffered vicious abuse from neighbours still stuck in Nazi mindsets.
Social historian Sabine Lee says women who had loved Afro- American soldiers were especially discriminated against, abused as ‘chocolate whores’ and worse.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3090322/Agony-love-children-left-Germany-conquering-Allied-troops-searching-fathers-families-70-years-on.html#ixzz3alHlCg9b
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As many asc 270,000 children are said to have been fathered by Allied troops in occupied Germany and Austria after the war — to their continuing shame and hurt.
A recent study of 146 so-called ‘occupation children’ found that many are psychologically scarred. Like their mothers, they faced social stigma, whispered insults, marginalisation and discrimination.
The Third Reich had been defeated and Nazism was discredited, but many Germans retained a fervent nationalism and harboured resentment against the victors.
They regarded German women who slept with Allied soldiers as traitors who had lost all morals; their offspring were seen as ‘children of the enemy’.
They were frozen out of communities and denied rations and help because their mothers chose to love Allied troops.
Singled out for derision, they were branded ‘monkeys’ and their mothers were called ‘Tommy whores’ and ‘Yank tramps’.
“I was a child of shame even though it was the Americans who liberated us from the Nazis ”
Wilfried remembers being called ‘Tommy urchin’ as a small boy at school and not knowing why. Like many in his situation, he had been kept in the dark about his true parental origins.
Up to 14,000 German women married American soldiers in the immediate aftermath of the war.
Many joined their husbands in the U.S., but others were left behind, where they suffered vicious abuse from neighbours still stuck in Nazi mindsets.
Social historian Sabine Lee says women who had loved Afro- American soldiers were especially discriminated against, abused as ‘chocolate whores’ and worse.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3090322/Agony-love-children-left-Germany-conquering-Allied-troops-searching-fathers-families-70-years-on.html#ixzz3alHlCg9b
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