Norway sued by children of Nazis.

[Peter Clare]

BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Norway sued by children of Nazis

[plant-pilot]

There has to be real 'Hate' there to treat the children as they were. I understand that the children were half German, but they were still children, innocent of any crime themselves and half Norwegian after all.

How can you condemn the Germans for what they did and then treat innocent children like they did?

Disgusting, and the children who have survived and had to lead impoverished and unhappy lives into their old age deserve all the compensation they can get.... not to mention prosecution of anyone who can have acts of cruelty proved against them, which shouldn't be too difficult as they weren't exactly hidden.

Saw this in todays paper. Disgusting how they vented their anger upon the children, but it was the same in all occupied countries. I understand the children of 'horizontal collaboraters' were despised.
I hope they get the money they deserve and the bastards (sorry for the bad language) who abused them are made to suffer in return.

[Owen]

I thought the Norwegians were more opened minded than that.
Terrible shame and stain on their country.

[Gotthard Heinrici]

Frida from Abba (The dark-haired) one is one of the most famous of these children. Her mother had an affair with a German Soldier during the war and afterwards had to flee to Sweden because the Norwegians would not accept her or her Mother.

[von Poop]

I find myself wondering if this fails if they will sue their mothers for transgressing so strongly against the contemporary morals/ethics of the population of an occupied country and beginning the whole grim story?

(nice nugget about Frida GH.)

[Gotthard Heinrici]

A lot of people knowing that the country was going to be liberated jumped on the "freedom Fighter" bandwagon and made sure that, when the liberators arrived that anyone who fraternised was punished. this was especially true in France where the true level of fraternisation and collaboration has yet to emerge.

[Owen]

Found quite an interesting little site here.
More to do with children of Norwegian nazis than German/Norwegian parents.
http://home.online.no/~kluwer/engl.htm
The photo gallery is worth a look.


I suppose it is easy for us from non-occupied countries to attack collaborators.
I wonder what our forebers would have done when presented with similar circumstances?
Am I right in thinking that levels of collaboration went up once the war with The Soviet Union started?
Am I confusing the wish to fight Communism with Collabaration?
Weren't there more Norwegians fighting for Germany than in Free-Norwegian units?
Look how much Western support Finland had in 1939, for that to evaporate two years later.

Another point about these children looking for redress, who much is that to do with this current compensation culture we have ?

[von Poop]

Interesting site on the formation of the Germanske SS Norge, I didn't realise that Quisling was so opposed:
Norwegian_political_SS

The total strength of the Norwegian SS at September 30th, 1944 was 1 247, of which 330 were at the front, 245 in the police and 511 in emergency units. Thus the Norwegian SS then consisted of only 161 men, but with 3422 aiding members (”S.M.”) and 9 137 subscribers to their newspaper ”Germaneren”.

Surely their own version of the allgemeine SS was unusual when compared to other countries whos population generated freiwillige combat units?

[Owen]

I found this.
About 15 000 Norwegians volunteered to the Wehrmacht or SS during the years 1940-1945, and an estimate of 7000 reached the front lines in some way.

Quisling, however saw this as a rather disappointing number, as he had visions of about 50,000 proud Norwegian soldiers, but one should bear in mind that "only" 11,000 volunteered to serve with the Allies,



There were many reasons why a Norwegian volunteer would want to risk his life by going to the front. The most common were:

- Disappointment with the Norwegian armed resistance during the German invasion, and the political circumstances that allowed such a weak and outdated defence policy.

- Disappointment with the King and Government going into exile in the UK, and the feeling of have being betrayed by the British and French during the German invasion.

- The fear of the communist threat from East, and the chance to take part in a ”Crusade against Bolshevism”

- The fact that Norway had capitulated, and this was seen by many as the only way to re-build a new national army.

Norwegian volunteers in the wehrmacht and SS

Ah, same site, different page to VP.

With the legitimat Government hiding in UK and little chance of Liberation I can see why so many would make the best of a bad job and try and make the best of life for themselves and their families.
Perhaps this is the Nazi-children were trated so badly afterwards as too many people were trying to distance themselves from their own acts of Collabaoration no matter how small.

Back to the original matter, where will any compensation come from?
EU coffers or Norwegian funds?