Who Is Her Father? A Child of WW2

During World War Two, as in any war, women were often subjected to forced or consensual relationships with men of their own or enemy armies in the absence of their husbands or grooms. Children who were born as a result of such relationships kept their true stories a secret for the rest of their lives or were never even informed by their mothers who the biological father was. This caused a lot of frustration, anxiety, and undeserved shame to the children even after they grew up. The shame of the “secret birth stories” was passed from generation to generation, even though, in theory, people understood the innocence of the kids.