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What happened to Hitler's master race? (video)

NBC News tonight broadcast a story about the abandoned children conceived by Norwegian women and Nazi soldiers during World War II at Hitler's direction.

It was a dread dark secret. The offspring were often shunned and abandoned even by their own mothers after the Nazis fled Norway.

Today the children, now in their sixties, are demanding an accounting by Norway of their ordeal.
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