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The transfer of power to the National Socialist German Labour Party (NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler in 1933 marked the beginning of the establishment of a dictatorship in the German Reich. The pseudo-scientific assertion that there were human “races” and the associated denigration of so-called inferior peoples did not originate in the Nazi era, but it formed the ideological basis for the disenfranchisement and murder of people on a massive scale ...
Close contact between Germans and prisoners of war was forbidden for reasons of military and political security. Contact with forced labourers was generally undesirable, and contact with those stigmatised as “fremdvölkisch” (ethnically foreign) was also forbidden for racist reasons.
Despite severe penalties for illegal contact between Germans and prisoners of war or forced labourers, many children were born from these relationships—they were “nevertheless there”. The number of these children is unknown and difficult to determine.
The German Wehrmacht’s unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. The previously forbidden relationships between Germans and prisoners of war or forced labourers were no longer prosecuted.
Many children from forbidden relationships did not know for a long time that one of their parents had been a prisoner of war or forced labourer. Those of them who grew up with their German mothers often wondered who and where their father was.
In the trials for Nazi crimes conducted by the Allies, only in a few cases did those responsible for crimes against forced labourers and prisoners of war face the courts. After the foundation of the two German states, these crimes were concealed or trivialised as a “normal” side effect of the war.
The transfer of power to the National Socialist German Labour Party (NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler in 1933 marked the beginning of the establishment of a dictatorship in the German Reich. The pseudo-scientific assertion that there were human “races” and the associated denigration of so-called inferior peoples did not originate in the Nazi era, but it formed the ideological basis for the disenfranchisement and murder of people on a massive scale ...
Close contact between Germans and prisoners of war was forbidden for reasons of military and political security. Contact with forced labourers was generally undesirable, and contact with those stigmatised as “fremdvölkisch” (ethnically foreign) was also forbidden for racist reasons.
Despite severe penalties for illegal contact between Germans and prisoners of war or forced labourers, many children were born from these relationships—they were “nevertheless there”. The number of these children is unknown and difficult to determine.
The German Wehrmacht’s unconditional surrender on 8 May 1945 marked the end of the Second World War in Europe. The previously forbidden relationships between Germans and prisoners of war or forced labourers were no longer prosecuted.
Many children from forbidden relationships did not know for a long time that one of their parents had been a prisoner of war or forced labourer. Those of them who grew up with their German mothers often wondered who and where their father was.
In the trials for Nazi crimes conducted by the Allies, only in a few cases did those responsible for crimes against forced labourers and prisoners of war face the courts. After the foundation of the two German states, these crimes were concealed or trivialised as a “normal” side effect of the war.
