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This text was written in a newspaper published in Bodø, Norway on the 2nd of August 1946. It translates to approximately:

"Girls as war compensation.

Australia is among the countries that have a shortage of women. As is well known, Germany has a considerable surplus of the same sex, and the government in Sydney has therefore decided to demand a "delivery of 200,000 German girls" as war compensation to bring new life to the Australian male domain. All girls must be under 17 years of age. The Hitleryouth will not be accepted. The government has itself taken on the responsibility for the young girls' upbringing to democratic women."

My students were trying to verify the information in the article and assume it falls in line with Arthur Calwell's post-war immigration scheme, but have been unable to find a source for this.

Is there any truth behind what the newspaper published? Have the newspaper altered/muddled the facts?

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    "The Hitleryouth will not be accepted." Good luck finding any, since HJ (or rather BDM) membership was mandatory. The only german girls not ex-members of the BDM would be concentration camp survivors. I have no idea if it's true, but it would have been pretty naive/misinformed in any case.
    – nvoigt
    Commented Nov 29, 2023 at 14:46
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    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence... There is a ton of literature about the Displaced Persons Program which accepted 170,000 refugees over 5 years, including detailed work by feminist scholars. If there is any real basis to the report quoted it should be easy to find on Google Scholar. I smell parody or something.
    – Brian Z
    Commented Nov 29, 2023 at 16:00
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    I spent several minutes searching for the relevant article in the scan. It is entitled "Jenter som krigserstattning", in a framed box on the third page of the scan.
    – njuffa
    Commented Nov 29, 2023 at 17:50
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    "decided to demand" looks like newspaper-speak for "we heard a rumor this might happen, but it hasn't actually happened". IOW, likely made up, perhaps by someone with an agenda. My guess is you won't be able to find any record of any such thing as a real request, and it would be more informative to your students to dig into the person publishing this propaganda, and why they might have wanted people to believe something like this.
    – T.E.D. ♦
    Commented Nov 29, 2023 at 18:28
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    @njuffa you have more than enough sources there for a proper answer I would say!
    – Brian Z
    Commented Nov 29, 2023 at 23:59

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