According to research figures 5,579 people born in Denmark
during or just after the German occupation are registered as children of German
fathers. Their affiliation cases, which were dealt with during the period 1940
– 1951, are all registered with the Ministry of Justice, and the documents are
kept in the regional archives and/or the Record Office. Until very recently
information on affiliation cases in these archives was inaccessible, also to the
children concerned.
Some affiliation cases in which the father was German
suffer from faulty registration or register a Danish father. A qualified
estimate of the actual number of ”German children” in Denmark (also
called war children), i.e. children with a German father and a Danish mother is
therefore in the region of ten to twelve thousand...
These children are now adults, and during recent
years, when ”German children” have been the subject of public debate, many
of them have pursued a wish to acquire more details about their roots.
Children of War – Denmark (Danske Krigsbørns Forening)
was formed in 1996 in the hope that it would become a forum where Danish war
children could give support to each other, exchange experiences and get advice
if they wished to find information on their paternal parent. Amongst other
things, the association has obtained a ruling giving war children access to the
archives holding their affiliation cases. Today the association has approx. 250
members, and many more have received counselling.
You may also find useful information at the link :
German-Girls 'German-Girls during Occupation and Post War Purge' (Tyskerpiger - under besættelse og retsopgør, 1994 og 1998, s. 1-260)
Special Circumstances Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (English Edition) vom 30.12.2001
A controversial book, "Enfants Maudits" (cursed children), published both in France and Germany, explores the fate of children born in France to German soldiers during WWII. DW-WORLD spoke to author Jean-Paul Picaper
The girls they left behind - an invistigation into the various aspects of the German troops' sexual relations with Danish subjects. (Ejnar Munksgaard, 1946).