The most dangerous place to be born during the war was not in a war-torn city, but in a special hospital secretly set up to care for the children of women who had children with soldiers serving in the German Army. I was born in a secret hospital outside Oslo in 1941.
My mother was a young Norwegian woman with blonde hair and blue eyes, which was why the Nazi officers had chosen her. The hospital was one of the so-called Lebensborn establishments, meaning “Source of Life” in German. The Nazis’ goal with these places was to create a master race of Germans by allowing their soldiers to father children with local women. For 4 years, this little girl lived in a nursery with other children, guarded by the SS. They were given plenty of food, faced strict discipline, and were cared for by staff, but no parent was allowed to search for their children. Then May 1945 came, and the German army collapsed.
The guards quickly disappeared, and the angry local population stormed onto the palace grounds. The children of mixed parentage were now no longer valued by the population.
They and their mothers were insulted in the streets, and the women had their hair shaved off. Children of mixed parentage were spat on by the population and called “German brats.”
Thousands of children were taken from nurseries and homes and placed in old psychiatric hospitals and other harsh state care institutions because the new government, worried about German influence in the country, feared for their safety. The poor children were badly beaten, starved, and brutally tortured by the angry staff of the now-abandoned hospitals and homes. The innocent Lebensborn children grew up hating their country and were pitied by no one. That moment changed everything.
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