2009/07/13 New York
Enemy
Quest
Johan Tagliabue writes in Friday’s Times:
“The so-called enfants de Boches — roughly, children of the Huns — born during the war to French women and German soldiers, are seeking to fill a hole in their lives, hunting for long-lost German fathers they never knew and speaking openly of the maltreatment they suffered from their French neighbors. It is estimated that 200,000 children were born of these wartime love affairs.
Photos of the time depict young women, their heads shorn in shame, being hounded through villages, clutching the children of German fathers. About 20,000 women had their heads shaved. Many rejected the children, gave them up for adoption or placed them in orphanages.”
The same day a friend alerted me to Patrick Buisson’s book “1940-1945 Années érotiques : Vichy ou les infortunes de la vertu”.
Sleeping with the enemy is sometimes just an extension of the quest for freedom.
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22 comments 
Arnon
Do you have an enemy? Could you imagine having an affair with the offspring of an SS-officer? Your mother would probably object to it very much. Would you listen to her?One of those famous war children (in Norway):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni-Frid_Lyngstad
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anni-Frid_Lyngstad
arnon has an enemy? there is an exact copie of that guy running around on this earth !? shockin'..
Mieke
I'm sorry to say, but I think those questions are a bit predictable and tasteless.If you crave attention, could you at least try to be original?
Mieke
I'm sorry to say, but I think those questions are a bit predictable and tasteless.If you crave attention, could you at least try to be original?
Sex as survival
What drove these woman to sleep with the enemy? Is it that woman fall for men with power and in wartime this is no different, the war hightening this survival instinct? Where these woman using the power of their sex to attempt to overcome German supression? Tragically for these children, sex with the enemy was an act of survival that bread another form of imprisonment.M I
Things are often a bit more complicated than you might think. I haven't read the book by Patrick Buisson yet, but according to my friend it's highly recommended. So if you can read French and if you are interested in this matter: don't hesitate.No pommes de terre(ur)
I'm afraid my French skills won't pick up on the nuance. On the subject of wartime, I have an excellent potato receipe if the novel get's too heavy, you can google Delia Online and Souffled jacket potato. It will make you feel like you 'avoir la patate', which I just found out means you feel great in French. Crazy French...I can't seem to find a full translation of the book, if you do I would love to know.
M.I.
If you click on the link you will find out that Buisson’s book is not a novel. Information is in English. Read first, then comment. That is not too much to ask isn’t it?i would sleep with an enemy, thats for sure.
Andrea
You are the most generous woman I've ever met. And I know this is none of my business, but is there any man with whom you would not get intimate?arnon
no, I am afraid I am not that generous. I just dont really belive in enemies. I would not get intimate with man that doesnt thrill me.I am not generous, I am simple.
Sander
A request: would it be possible to implement searching with specific strings in quotes. I'm not using the right terminology, but I hope you know what I mean. As in: "Sander Voerman". Right now queries just generate too many results, unless you have a very specific word to go on. Often I don't have such a word, but I do remember a certain phrase.Arnon and batta
I noticed that I erroneously wrote novel just after it was posted, but it's not possible to make corrections to your own posts after they are online. I read a few people commenting on this, it would be a good tool to add Arnon, if this is possible.Today's my birthday. I hate this event, since I always disappoint people and friends.
Dens
What can I do for you on your birthday?M I
You can always post a second comment to correct or even take back your first comment.I don't believe Sander will give the readers of this site the option to edit their comments.
@Dens
Today is my birthday. You are invited to the parade in Paris.
Today is my birthday. You are invited to the parade in Paris.
Dens, Bernard
Congratulations!@Bernard f: what parade in Paris? Is there a parade? Will there be girls with skirts and lucious hair?
@Michel V.: thanks
@Mr. Arnon: There's nothing one can do for me on my birthday but talk to my guests and ease my burdon.
@Michel V.: thanks
@Mr. Arnon: There's nothing one can do for me on my birthday but talk to my guests and ease my burdon.
@Michel V
Thank you !
@Dens
Le quatorze juillet ! A military parade … and yes, there will be lots of smart girls in uniform and others too. It is still Paris, somehow.
Thank you !
@Dens
Le quatorze juillet ! A military parade … and yes, there will be lots of smart girls in uniform and others too. It is still Paris, somehow.
Bernard f
Oh, how I love a good, smart and beautiful girl. I'm visiting Ghent tomorrow. I hope to have a good huntingday.[ Add comment ]
