Posted on 10/26/2005 6:03:17 PM PDT by blam
Norway finally forgives women who slept with Nazi soldiers
By Kate Connolly in Berlin
(Filed: 27/10/2005)
Norwegian women who slept with German soldiers during the Second World War and have been denied a special pension ever since as punishment are finally to be forgiven.
Known as "tysketöser", German whores, they have until now been excluded from the war pension paid to all who remained true to "good national principles" during the occupation.
Now, however, Norway's government has quietly reversed its policy of discrimination against the women and will start paying the money to the few dozen still left.
"Very few are still alive and most went to their graves as shamed Norwegians," said Eva Simonsen of the University of Oslo. "But the important thing here is the principle.
"These women are no longer to be punished for the love stories of their youth that took place 60 years or more ago."
In fact, the Nazis who occupied Norway actively encouraged affairs between local women and German soldiers, part of an SS plan to enrich the Aryan gene pool. But when the occupiers fled and the puppet regime of Vidkun Quisling fell, the "tysketöser" were denounced as traitors.
Around 14,000 women who had relationships with the enemy were arrested at the end of the war and 5,000 were sent to labour camps.
Even today the estimated 12,000 children they gave birth to are seen by many older Norwegians as a danger to society.
After the war they were separated from their mothers, placed in homes where they suffered sexual and physical abuse and often classed as mentally deficient. The then authorities justified their treatment by arguing that the offspring of the German-Norwegian couples were a potential fifth column.
The most prominent "tyskerunge," or "German brat", is Anni-Frid Lyngstad, the brunette singer from the 1970s Scandinavian super group, Abba. Her mother, Synni, had an affair with a German soldier and was forced to flee with her to Sweden when they were ostracised in their village in northern Norway.
Synni died in the late 1940s and her daughter did not meet her German father until she was in her 30s.
Those of the women's children who finally received compensation payments of £2,000 this summer have cautiously welcomed the belated acknowledgment of their mothers.
"I was silent about my suffering for 50 years, like the other children only coming forward to tell my story in the late 1990s," said Gerd Fleischer, daughter of a Norwegian mother and German father. "But my mother's silence lasted until the grave".
The payments are calculated on the basis of average income during a working life. Those still eligible will not receive backdated payments.
Around 160 "war children", led by an Oslo lawyer, Randi Spydevold, are fighting for more compensation at the European Court of Human Rights.
Harriet von Nickel, 63, another plaintiff in the case, said: "When I was nine or 10, drunken villagers branded my forehead with a swastika. I rubbed sandpaper on my skin to get rid of it."
Nobody stands on principle any more.
Too bad we never did the same to the MSM whores that were in bed with Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin and Mao for 70 years.
Oops - I forget to mention the leftist academic pimps
But I had to laugh out loud at your #3 comment. That was great. I am glad to see there are so many people who see the MSM for what they are.
Good grief. The Norwegians after the war were no more tolerant than the Nazis during the war.
Ptoooey! Norwegians resisted the Nazi occupation just like Janet Jackson tried to stay decent at the Super Bowl. The French were good at conducting witch-hunts against "collaborators" (unless you happened to be someone important like Picasso) while the Americans and the British were liberating their country. That's the dominant European mindset nowadays as the Germans and the British have begun to adopt it.
"How did the Norwegians treat the thousands of traitors who made up the Quisling government?"
Bingo
Doubt it. Watch a great Max Von Sydow film, "Hamsun". There's also "The Last Lieutenant", which starts with a bang, slows down to the point where the only thing they can think to do is put in a gratuitous sex scene, and ends with a whimper. Neither film puts Norway in a very good light.
Mind you, that "Thor Espedal" character in the second film was a tough sonofabitch.
McDermott also stood with David Bonior and announced they were both "Nam Vets". In reality neither were ever in Nam. Mcdermott spent his war time nam experience in sunny California!
They would do better to be concerned with traitors in bed with Islamic fanatics.
Besides, I thought the whole Country was in bed with Quisling anyway - who cares anyway.
"Judy" of Lost in Space fame was of this background. I had a real crush on her as a kid.
Marta Kristen was Norwegian?
The 1943 movie, Edge of Darkness, is a great movie about the German occupation of Norway. Starring Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, it's more than your normal propaganda film, intense, thrilling, and deals with the subject at hand.
(Heroes Of Telemark, starring Kirk Douglas, is another movie about Norway, based on a true story of German occupation.)
She was born in Norway to, I believe, a Finnish mother and a German father. She was sent to the US as an adoptee at an early age because of the stigma associated with her birth.
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