Franco-German "war child" granted German citizenship

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	Franco-German "war child" granted German citizenship

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8-5-2009 9:53 PM

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The son of a French woman and a German Wehrmacht officer, 66-year-old Daniel Rouxel on Wednesday became the first Franco-German "war child" to be granted German citizenship.</H4></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4545091,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf"><P>Rouxel said the event helped to ease a lifetime of rejection and humiliation in a country whose wartime occupation remained a taboo topic for a long time.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4545091,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf"><P>Around 200,000 children were born between 1941 and 1945 as a result of liaisons between French women and occupying German troops. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4545091,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf"><P>At the time, Nazi rules prohibited marriage with French natives - unlike with Norwegians or Dutch who were deemed to be "Aryan." So the affairs were secret and often ended abruptly when they were discovered.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4545091,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf"><P>After the war, the mothers were humiliated or sent to jail amid a flood of anti-German hostility. Their children were derided as "children of the Boche" - an abusive term for Germans. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4545091,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf"><P>They were often left to struggle alone with the psychological effects of humiliation, rejection, persecution and ostracism.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4AFE07A1-CD0A-4AD7-9B10-849A5C0ED31E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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