Meisje... look out for a baby!

In 'Meisje... look out for a baby' from around 1945, Dutch girls are warned about the consequences of amorous relationships with Allied soldiers.

The book only has 8 pages and nowhere is it mentioned who wrote it or who published it. But the message is crystal clear. In the spring of 1945, the Second World War is finally over and groups of allied soldiers are flooding the country. In the euphoria of liberation, many a Dutch woman falls for the charms (and/or the chocolate or the nylon stockings) of the foreign allied soldiers. The 'Dutch boys are no longer there', the book states, not without cynicism.

But the foreigners move away, and then:

Leentje is getting fatter, mother thinks it's rotten
Who would be father, a Canadian or a Scot.
They are in misery, oh what a struggle
How will they get out of this misery.

The warning was not taken seriously everywhere, as it turns out nine months later.