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East Germany’s Institutionalized Children - A Belated Apology

April 13, 2012

The stories of abuse in children’s homes in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s are nothing new - but now the maltreatment and exploitation of institutionalized children in the former communist East is now also coming to light.

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The government has decided to set up a compensation fund for people who were subjected to beatings, forced showers and other forms of humiliation in the latter. For many victims, however, the memories of that misery will haunt them forever.