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Next month, the European Court of Human Rights has scheduled a hearing in a case brought by several Norwegian Lebensborn children, seeking damages from their nation for the abuse they suffered growing up.

In case someone wonders about the recent spate of stories. New secrets of Hitler revealed
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1733537/posts
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | November 6, 2006 | Melissa Eddy (A.P.)

Germans tell of secret Nazi program
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1732524/posts
AP Via Yahoo ^

And earlier stories:

Innocent Children of Hitler's Racial Master Plan Still Haunt Norway 60 Years After War's End
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1361549/posts

Norway's abused war children move step closer to compensation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/802835/posts

In some ways, the Lebensborn effort -- it means "fountain of life" in German ...

Another author who can't do any research:

Lebensborn (Source of Life, in German)... From here.

A simple search would have given him the meaning of the word "lebensborn".

"Mrs. Fredriksen is one of 9,000 to 12,000 Norwegian children who became part of the Nazis' Lebensborn program, which was begun by SS chief Heinrich Himmler to increase the supply of blond-haired, blue-eyed "Aryan" children."....... I wonder how many "other" children were born to "married" German/Norwegian couples? (It would appear that most just went on with their lives.) Also, how many Russian/German children were born out of wedlock in 1946? (We don't see/hear much about them.) (Maybe now with the declining birth rate in Western Europe, they should consider re instituting a similar program?) Wars have a tendency to produce children by invaders. Ever hear of Amerasians? I'm sure the Romans, Mongols, Huns, etc. did their fair share too. Mrs. Fredricksen didn't ask to be born, and for that reason alone they should not have picked on her. No child can pick out its parents. Also, Out of the approximately 300,000 German troops occupying Norway, how many were SS? There were SS units in Hungary and Berlin at the wars end that were made up of Norwegians, but were there SS Divisions actually stationed in Norway? I have always been under the impression that Norway was invaded only because German Intel. discovered the British plan to use it as a base. Norway could have remained neutral, like Sweden had the British not intended to use it. Thus Norway and Mrs Fredricksen ended up as victims of circumstance.