The local commanders were furious that their leader, Radovan Karadzic, had ordered us to be let in. They tried to lighten the atmosphere by organising a kitsch ceremony. A group of Serb women dressed in cute national costumes stood smiling goofily and handing out goodies to the reporters The contrast with the scenes behind the lines was grotesque. Everyone was speechless.On the way back to Serbia we stopped in a restaurant Somehow, the diners found out we had been to Srebrenica. "Don't think you people can save the Turks," one of them said with a sneer (they always called the Bosnian Muslims "Turks") "We'll get them all in the end." He was right The Bosnian Serb army killed all the men I saw in the town.. Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, arrives in Moscow tonight at the end of his 5,800-mile train journey across Russia on the Trans-Siberian railway, which has been reported with ever increasing fascination by the Russian media.

Kim Jong Il, the North Korean leader, arrives in Moscow tonight at the end of his 5,800-mile train journey across Russia on the Trans-Siberian railway, which has been reported with ever increasing fascination by the Russian media. A Russian tabloid newspaper was even reporting yesterday that Mr Kim's green-coloured armoured train had been shot at, and printed a picture of what it claimed were bullet holes in one of the 21 coaches.The daily Komsomolskaya Pravda said experts had identified the white spots on the coach panelling as made by 7.62mm rounds fired from an AK-47 automatic rifle.It is unlikely, if there had been an attempt on Mr Kim's life, that his train would still be pulling along a bullet-riddled carriage as evidence. An official at the North Korean embassy in Moscow solemnly denied any assassination attempt. Mr Kim – who made his epic train journey reportedly because of a fear of flying – will stay in the Kremlin tonight and hold talks with President Vladimir Putin tomorrow. The two leaders will then sign a joint declaration about their shared attitude to world affairs.But the main diplomatic interest in the visit is North Korea's response to allegations that its missiles potentially threaten the US, and justify the Americans ditching the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty of 1972.. As Germany settles the last of its Holocaust bills, Norwegian victims of an Aryan breeding programme masterminded by Heinrich Himmler are coming forward for the first time to demand compensation for their suffering. As Germany settles the last of its Holocaust bills, Norwegian victims of an Aryan breeding programme masterminded by Heinrich Himmler are coming forward for the first time to demand compensation for their suffering. Thousands of "war children" were fathered in Norway by the occupiers as part of a Nazi plan to mingle German and Norwegian blood and fuel the "rebirth of the Germanic race".Himmler, the head of the SS, named the project "Source of Life" or "Lebensborn". The offspring, he decreed, would become masters of the master race.

Ten special homes were set up in Norway to nurture the progeny and their mothers.But the "war children" have been treated up to this day as bastards of the Third Reich: bullied, abused, in many cases driven to suicide. Now 170 of them are taking the Norwegian government to court. Many travelled to Berlin to publicise their plight, and to launch the first exhibition on German soil about the forgotten offspring of the war.Paul Hansen is one of the forgotten demanding justice from Germany. At the age of three he was certified mentally subnormal and dumped in a Norwegian asylum where older, insane inmates would regularly defecate in the room. He was raised in seven institutions, was beaten in most of them, and left when he was 21, never having learnt to read and write.No one had actually bothered to measure his IQ, but then his was an open and shut case. He was declared a congenital imbecile, because his father was a German soldier.Mr Hansen's parents fled after the war, leaving him to his appalling fate "There were 20 of us in my home," he says.

"The authorities didn't know what to do with us, so they took us to a mental asylum. We were led into a room where the inmates were chained to their beds."In the traditions of Nazi science, a Norwegian health official branded the group mentally retarded They had inherited the trait from their mothers. After all, only half-witted Norwegian women would go with German soldiers. Tor Brandacher, who leads the organisation suing the government in Oslo, says the Norwegians after the war were worse than the Nazis.

"You won't find anything so brutal about Jews here at the Gestapo headquarters as you see in Norwegian documents about us," Mr Brandacher says. The mothers, he adds, were expelled or locked in camps, their children systematically abused. "I know of a children's home where the locals queued to have sex with five to seven-year-olds. They paid the guards with a bottle of liquor."The homes where many of the estimated 12,000 "war children" wound up were run by the Norwegian state. Only in the past decade has their suffering become public knowledge, forcing an apology from the government, but no compensation.Mr Brandacher speaks of a conspiracy of silence "This is a national disgrace," he says. "Everybody knew about it, everybody heard about it, but no one wanted to speak about it."A photographer who took pictures of the war children now being exhibited at the Berlin end of the German-Norwegian Society was lucky to escape the homes. Einar Bangsund lived in Norway until he was six, when his mother could take no more of her own folk and emigrated to Germany.