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Tokio Hotel, vergessene Kinder

Bourreaux et victimes : Psychologie de la torture de Françoise Sironi Odile Jacob, 1999 Eloge du secret de Pierre Lévy-Soussan Essais, Hachette, 2006 Présentation de l'éditeur • Le secret est, de nos jours, porteur d'une aura maléfique. La transparence est devenue une exigence universelle. On traque désormais sans relâche le secret, qui doit être révélé, exhibé, éliminé. Chasse au secret de famille, médiatisation des affaires publiques ou privées : il faudrait tout dire au nom de l'intérêt individuel ou collectif. Le "droit de savoir" est partout, remettant en cause jusqu'à l'anonymat qui s'attache au don d'organe, de gamètes, à la naissance sous X. Cette tyrannie de la transparence fait voler en éclats les barrières propres à l'intime : plus question de dissimuler sa souffrance ou même ses pensées. La parole intime est devenue publique, parée de vertus thérapeutiques. Ainsi parents et enfants sont-ils sommés de "tout" se dire, au détriment de l'épanouissement de leur indispensable jardin secret. Pierre Lévy-Soussan réhabilite ici cette intimité aujourd'hui malmenée et qui pourtant joue un rôle essentiel dans l'équilibre de la vie psychique de tous les individus. Au 4 juin 2006, « Autres formes de racisme ordinaire », extrait : CAEN (AP) - Pour la première fois, près de 150 enfants nés de père allemand et de mère française pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale se sont réunis samedi à Caen (Calvados) pour l'assemblée de l'Amicale nationale des enfants de la guerre (Ameg). "C'est très émouvant de nous retrouver tous ici. C'est la première fois que nous nous voyons", lance Jeanine Nivoix-Sevestre, la présidente de l'amicale créée l'an passé. Née en 1941 d'une mère française et d'un père soldat allemand, elle se bat depuis plusieurs années pour retrouver des enfants comme elle. "Nous conversons depuis plus d'un an par e-mail ou par téléphone, mais nous ne nous étions jamais vus", explique-t-elle. "Aujourd'hui nous sommes 150, mais il paraît qu'en France nous sommes plus de 200.000 enfants nés de ces amours interdites". "Toute notre vie n'a été qu'insultes, menaces, brimades, mais chacun vivait muré dans son silence", ajoute Josiane Kruger, une autre de ses enfants nés durant la Seconde guerre mondiale.

THE OCCUPATION AND ITS OFFSPRING
Lost Red Army Children Search for Fathers
SpiegelOnline.de/international, August 16, 2007, extraits d'un article en deux parties :

More than 60 years after the end of World War II, the children of Red Army soldiers born in eastern Germany during the Soviet occupation are now searching for their fathers with the aid of historians and the Russian media. Many of these so-called "Russian children" have endured lifelong suffering as a consequence of their situation.

Sixty-one-year-old Jan Gregor can still remember "every little gesture and every word my mother said on the day she decided to tell me the truth." His mother had just finished making the beds, recalls Gregor, who was born in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, and was smoothing the bedspread, as she always did, with her broom handle. After carefully putting the broom away, she finally came and sat on the edge of the bed, next to her son. After a long while, he said, she started to tell him her story.

Gregor remembers his mother talking very slowly and deliberately and, although only five years old at the time, he knew instantly what she meant when she talked about "being made pregnant by force."

(...) For decades, the fate they suffered was a taboo subject in eastern Germany; initially in the Soviet Occupation Zone and later in the German Democratic Republic (GDR, the former East Germany). For 40 years in the GDR, posters and banners sang the praises of the "Soviet-German Friendship" and stories involving rape did not fit the image of the glorious and heroic Soviet army. The rapes that took place were swept under the carpet -- they were seldom registered, and officials looked the other way. In the old GDR days, Soviet soldiers were officially regarded as heroes who had smashed Fascism and rescued German children. They couldn't possibly have been rapists -- that, at least, is what the propaganda would have people believe.

And even within the families of "Russian Children," the whole issue has always remained a highly emotional topic, says Barbara Stelzl-Marx, deputy head of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute in the Austrian city of Graz, which helps victims of the consequences of war conduct investigations into their circumstances. "The subject is still often a taboo in many families, even today," says Stelzl-Marx.

With the fall of the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall, a number of German children of Soviet occupation soldiers set about trying to trace their roots, encouraged by the new atmosphere of glasnost and perestroika. But there were no agreements obliging the Russians to provide any information to the offspring of Soviet occupation soldiers in East Germany. Consequently, the archives of the (former) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics long remained off limits to the victims of the occupation, and many "Russian Children" had to conduct their own investigations.

Even today, it is still not clear how many children were fathered by the Soviet occupation forces. Norman M. Naimark, a professor of history at Stanford University whose book "The Russians in Germany: A History of the Soviet Zone of Occupation, 1945-49" documents the events of that time, reckons there could be tens of thousands of children involved, though no one will ever know for sure.

Stirring Up Painful Memories

As if the past societal discrimination weren't enough, children searching for their fathers also often meet with hostility to the idea within their own families. Jan Gregor's half-sisters in Germany, for example, didn't want to know about what had happened during the last days of the war. In fact, he says, they told him he should keep quiet about it and just let things rest instead of asking questions all the time. His sisters saw no reason to stir up old memories that had brought shame and disgrace on the family. Yet for Jan Gregor it was a question of tracing his roots as well as finding out when his mother's sufferings had begun.

(...) From then on, most people in Summerfield avoided Jan's mother, although she was the victim, just as they later avoided her son. From a very young age, he was routinely tormented by the other children in the village. "They hit me and shouted insults at me and they knocked the milk out of my hand," recalls Jan Gregor, "they kept calling me a "Russian pig" and told me I didn't need any milk."

For a long time his mother said nothing, so her son simply couldn't understand why the children called him "Ivan." It was only after school bullies had beaten him up and thrown stones at him untill he was crying with pain that the five-year-old decided he was fed up being brave. He ran home to his mother, demanding an explanation.

(...) But only a small number of rape victims were courageous enough to deal with what happened to them in the way Jan's mother did. Even women whose children were the result of love affairs with Soviet soldiers seldom discussed the father's origins with their offspring. If caught, the couples were forced to separate and the soldiers were sent back home. Many of the women never got over what had happened.

... Einsam und verloren unschichtbar geboren Beim ersten schrei erforen vergessene kinder Name unbekant endlos weggerant aus der welt verbannt vergessene kinder Sie sehen Sie Fuhlen Verstehen Genau wie wir Sie lachen und weinen wollen leben Genau wie wir Augen ohne gluck Alle traume wurden erstickt panik, vor dem licht Und angst vor jedem gesicht Schuld die keinen trifft Die zeit heilt nicht ... Tokio Hotel, vergessene Kinder CEED - Conseil Européen des Enfants du Divorce association de parents enfants et grand-parents victimes d'enlèvements et de rapts internationaux d'enfants ... Combien de milliards d'Euros la France, l'Europe et les autres Nations ont-elles déjà versé à fonds perdus à ce pays qui a instrumentalisé son administration de justice familiale à cette fin ? Combien de milliers d'enfants français, polonais, turcs et d'autres nationalités ont-ils été ainsi germanisés depuis la dernière guerre mondiale ? Combien de milliers de ces parents non-allemands ont-ils été réduits au simple rôle de criminels bon payeurs ? ... http://www.jugendamt-wesel.com/

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