Postwar 'occupation children' finally shed the stigma

Many faced social stigma and were kept in the dark about their true parental origins, with birth certificates that usually said "father unknown".

Now, 70 years after the end of World War II, many German children of the Allied occupation forces are breaking the silence on a taboo subject.

"My own earliest memories are: I am not wanted, something is wrong with me," writes one of them, Ute Baur-Timmerbrink, in her new book on the subject, Wir Besatzungskinder (We, the Occupation Children).