Such fraternization was a lot more common than the usual good war propaganda pretends. One West German Lufwaffe general had a French mother as a result of such a union. His mother went to the French sector of Germany as soon as she could and married her lieutenant. These post war unions were not uncommon.
“Such fraternization was a lot more common than the usual good war propaganda pretends.”
No doubt, whenever there are men far from home they will find ladies to comfort them. I imagine in the cases of low level officers and noncoms no one batted an eye because it often WAS for genuine love the couples were together.
In the case of Anni-Frid Lyngstad, she found and met her father later as an adult. Her father had known her mother was pregnant but was pulled out of the area quickly. He was thought to be dead since his ship had been sunk.
In 1977 a German magazine posted a full biography of Lyngstad including the part about her father. They met in Stockholm later that year.
I’ve read of one account of a German pilot being held in Ireland during the war. Ireland was officially neutral so any military personnel, both Axis and Allied, who found themselves in Ireland were interred for the duration of the war.
This German pilot found himself on the wrong side of England in a shot up plane. His best bet was to try for Ireland. He made it and was promptly interred.
He found it a strange situation.
He was allowed to walk to town much more frequently than his also interred English co-belligerants. An Irish thumb in the eye to England you see.
While interred he met and married a beautiful Irish lass and never returned to Germany.
Men and women, women and men. What ya gonna do?