http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=5612752OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has agreed to offer children born in World War Two of Nazi soldiers and Norwegian women compensation for decades of discrimination, but victims said the cash was insultingly low.
A parliamentary committee offered up to 20,000 crowns (1,700 pounds) to 10,000-12,000 German-Norwegians born in the 1940-45 German occupation of Norway as an apology for lifetimes of abuse ranging from bullying at school to scorn at work. snip
Hitler encouraged soldiers to have children in Norway, seeing it as an extra breeding ground for his dream of creating an Aryan super-race.
After the allied victory, the once-lauded children became despised misfits. Some were abandoned in orphanages or mental institutions, others were raised by single mothers or shuttled back and forth between Norway and Germany.
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