Not Accepted In Society
The Norwegian ministry of social affairs took the plight of the orphan children to a new height of disdain. Their statement read: “To believe these children will become decent citizens is to believe rats in the cellar will become house pets.”
Not Accepted In Society
Norway’s head of their largest mental hospital stated that the women who had slept with the Nazis were “mental defectives” and claimed that more than 80% of the children must be “retarded”.
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Left For Nothing
Years after Norway sent the Lebensborn children to locked state institutions, a group of them tried to sue the government.
Left For Nothing
Their claims were that they were neglected and that they didn’t get the care they needed. There was hardly a response to their claims. Only in 1999 did Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik actually make a public apology for the children’s mistreatment.
