an_enemy_a_sweetheart

SUMMARY

There’s guarantied nothing like this book on the marked today. This is an attempt to chart the shortcuts to the public archives with filling information attached to a special problem: who am I? Because the writers don’t know where the objects are, do we have to write a whole book and show our tips for further investigation in Norwegian or foreign archives. We have not yet received any support to this work from the Norwegian authorities.

As a starting point is this book designed for the war children who have had or have difficulties with access to information about themselves from the public archives. The background material is taken from real life. There are 24 war children who in their own way tell about which methods they used or have been using during the search after documents concerning their own existence.

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The Second World War lasted for approximately 5 years. The occupant’s intercourse with Norwegian women resulted in thousand of children. These children were called “war children” or “germankids”. The authorities have made sure that no one ever will know how many war children who was born and/or grew up, or where they live. These children are missing some peaces in their lives, because they’re still searching in the archives among others for an answer to who their father is or was. We know he was a soldier in an army who was guilty in many and serious crimes during the war – more or less in the same way as other armies in the modern history.

In the book you can read that many of the war children suffered a lot, in the school, in their upbringing and in other ways after the liberation. Here, we’re talking about a burn marking that’s no more than an ignominious spot in the resent Norwegian history. Never the less did they drag a burden with them, which is affecting them even today. Therefore it’s impossible in modern time to understand the evil directed towards them. In the book you can also read about children who have several birth certificates forged by the authorities.

The war children were seriously put on the authorities agenda again in 1986. Through the mass media, radio, TV, magazines and in the press is this common knowledge. Someone came forward and gave the war children a face. They had been hidden away for many years or as adults hidden themselves away. The war children have at the starting point not dared to tell openly about their origin. Neither did they dear to talk about their inner feelings, and in difficult times, maybe most of all, what they were thinking. In the book have 24 war children opened up and told about good and bad experiences, but no one will come forward with their full name. They have also focused on the problems created by the authorities attached to the search process.

Who am I really? Who/how is my father? And for many who/how is my mother? There were many such questions. Someone got an answer, others didn’t. After 1986 have the war children, under certain given circumstances, for the first time got access to “their file” with the authorities.

According to this book was surprisingly many of the mothers unwilling to give their children information that could lead them on the track in their search for their biological fathers. Why the mothers have been so unwilling, is still an unanswered question.

The script was ready many years ago but none of the publisher we contacted was willing to print this.

We have to use our own resources - as usual.

You’ll find more information about the Norwegian “Germankids” on the homepage: www.nkbf.no

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Tilrettelagt for internett av Norges Krigsbarnforbund (NKBF). Homepage: http://www.nkbf.no