"Brown Babies" is a term used for children born to 'black' soldiers and 'white' European women during and after World War II. In Germany they were known as "Mischlingskinder". As of 1955 African-American soldiers in Germany had fathered about 5,000 mischlingskinder in Occupied Germany, making up a significant minority of the 37,000 illegitimate children of US soldiers overall. In the United Kingdom, West Indian members of the British forces, as well as African-American US soldiers, fathered "brown babies" born to European-British women.