Norway's Nazi children
During World War II, German soldiers serving in Norway fathered some 12,000 children by local women. Today these Tyskerbarna or 'German Bastards' are demanding compensation - not from Germany, but from Norway. What is the nature of their grievance?

Their mothers, branded 'German whores', had their heads shaved and were often sent to do hard labour. Their children were classified as 'rats' by government officials, who tried to get the Tyskerbarna transported, first to Germany, then to Australia. But Germany was in ruins and Australia refused to have them. So they stayed in Norway.
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They became hate figures, regarded as dangerous and liable to form a fascist fifth column because of their 'Nazi genes' but also reviled as feeble-minded. In the tradition of Nazi science, Norwegian government psychologists concluded that the women who had fraternised with Germans were 'asocial psychopaths of limited talent, some of them seriously backward', and that 80% of their children must be mentally retarded. The verdict 'father was a German' was indictment enough to send children to mental hospitals, where many were tortured and raped. Others had their Germanness beaten out of them by foster parents. Some were allegedly used as guinea pigs in drugs trials of LSD, mescaline and other substances, initiated by the Norwegian military, Oslo University and the CIA. Many others ended up in children's homes, where they received no education to speak of and were released as bewildered adults in the early Sixties into a world with which they were ill-equipped to deal.
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She recounted how, as a two-year-old living with foster parents, she had been chained up with the dog in the yard; how as a six-year-old she had been thrown in the river by a man from her village, who said he wanted to see if 'the witch will drown or float'. At the age of nine, drunken villagers near Trondheim branded her forehead with a swastika made of bent nails, and threatened to rape her.