<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9c1f937a-2137-41f1-9018-890ab5d0bba2/68AEECEC-A931-4B20-9A03-43D01BA6980F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nytimes.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#"><NYT_HEADLINE type=" " version="1.0"> Tracing Roots Fostered by War and Severed by Shame </NYT_HEADLINE></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.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.nytimes.com/img/00648E07-4466-4D5F-A0C2-D8D21A507184" alt="" /></div></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.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#"><P class="caption"> Jacques Roquencourt is the child of a French-German union. Maternal acceptance and paternal certainty have eluded him. </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.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#"><P>PARIS — When Jacques Roquencourt handles photographs, he does so with delicate hands. An accomplished aerospace engineer, he spent his life building things like airborne radar systems. He is also one of <A title="More news and information about France." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/france/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">France</A>’s foremost experts on early photography, particularly the work of Daguerre.</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.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#"><P>But when a package of photographs arrived recently from Freiburg, <A title="More news and information about Germany." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/germany/index.html?inline=nyt-geo">Germany</A>, he handled them with special delicacy. For if investigations now under way bear fruit, one of the people in the black-and-white photos, taken in the 1930s, will prove to be the father whose identity has remained a mystery to Mr. Roquencourt for all his 67 years. </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.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#">The so-called <A title="Chapter from “Children of World War II“" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=U84Wu0_OnRMC&pg=PA138&dq=enfants+de+Boches&ei=p0xWStCeJI7SMtCqsKAH">enfants de Boches</A> — roughly, children of the Huns — born during the war to French women and German soldiers, are seeking to fill a hole in their lives,</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.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#">hunting for</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.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/world/europe/10france.html?_r=1&ref=world#">long-lost German fathers</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/68AEECEC-A931-4B20-9A03-43D01BA6980F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.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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