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Children of World War II : The Hidden Enemy Legacy.
Title:
Children of World War II : The Hidden Enemy Legacy.
Author:
Ericsson, Kjersti.
ISBN:
9781845208806
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (305 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: North -- 1. Under the Care of Lebensborn: Norwegian War Children and their Mothers -- 2. War, Cultural Loyalty and Gender: Danish Women's Intimate Fraternization -- 3. Silences, Public and Private -- 4. Meant to be Deported -- 5. Life Stories of Norwegian War Children -- Part II: West -- 6. Ideology and the Psychology of War Children in Franco's Spain, 1936-1945 -- 7. Enfants de Boches: The War Children of France -- 8. Stigma and Silence: Dutch Women, German Soldiers and their Children -- Part III: East -- 9. Between Extermination and Germanization: Children of German Men in the 'Occupied Eastern Territories', 1942-1945 -- 10. Race, Heredity and Nationality: Bohemia and Moravia, 1939-1945 -- Part IV: Germany -- 11. A Topic for Life: Children of German Lebensborn Homes -- 12. Besatzungskinder and Wehrmachtskinder: Germany's War Children -- 13. Black German 'Occupation' Children: Objects of Study in the Continuity of German Race Anthropology -- Epilogue -- 14. Children in Danger: Dangerous Children -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Abstract:
There is a hidden legacy of war that is rarely talked about: the children of native civilians and enemy soldiers. What is their fate?This book unearths the history of the thousands of forgotten children of World War II, including its prelude and aftermath during the Spanish Civil War and the Allied occupation of Germany. It looks at liaisons between German soldiers and civilian women in the occupied territories, and the Nazi Lebensborn program of racial hygiene. It also considers the children of African-American soldiers and German women. The authors examine what happened when the foreign solders went home and discuss the policies adopted towards these children by the Nazi authorities as well as postwar national governments. Personal testimonies from the children themselves reveal the continued pain and shame of being children of the enemy.Case studies are taken from France, Germany, the Netherlands, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Denmark and Spain.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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