General view of the building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg
General view of the building of the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, eastern France, March 8, 2007. The European Court of Human Rights hold an hearing on Thursday on the case of 154 Norwegians, 4 Swedes and one German national, who all have a Norwegian mother and a German father and were born during the Second World War, registered as children of "Lebensborn", a Nazi scheme introduced by Heinrich Himmler in 1935, to create children who were deemed racially and genetically pure. They have brought their cases before the European Court of Human Rights today, complaining about the treatment they endured in Norway as war children. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler (FRANCE)