Children of German soldiers and mothers from an occupied country are the main subjects. Attention is also paid to the Spanish Civil War and the Allied occupation of Germany, the Nazi Lebensborn program of racial hygiene and the children of African-American soldiers and German women. The authors examine what happened when the foreign solders went home and discuss the policies adopted towards these children by the Nazi authorities as well as postwar national governments. Personal testimonies from the children themselves are included, describing their experiences of otherness and discrimination.
This volume addresses three things: God, sex, and politics. It investigates what is at stake in these constructions of religion and homosexuality in public discourses. Starting with the Netherlands as a special case study, it proceeds with contributions on other predominantly postsecular countries in central, northern, and southern Europe as well as several postcommunist and postcolonial countries ’beyond Europe’. Combining contemporary and historical perspectives and approaches from both the humanities and the social sciences, the contributors explore how national and European identities are constructed and contested in debates on religion and homosexuality. [Chapter 2 and Chapter 8 of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com.]