Child Abuse
Germany Admits Enslaving and Abusing a Generation of Children
Germany Admits Enslaving and Abusing a Generation of Children
Posted by David Icke

Youths digging turf at Diakonie Freistatt, one of the church institutions, near Hannover, in the 1960s
'Germany has owned up to one of the most disturbing examples of mass child and youth abuse in its post-war history, some 60 years after the first teenagers started being locked away and mistreated by supposedly "caring" foster homes.
The country agreed yesterday to provide a €120m (£101m) compensation fund for the estimated 30,000 victims who were among the 800,000 children in German foster homes in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies.
Institutions that for decades meted out inhuman treatment – including ritual beatings, periods of solitary confinement, forced labour and sexual assaults – were not youth remand centres or borstals as might be expected, but homes run by nuns and priests in former West Germany's Catholic and Protestant churches, as well as state-run homes.'
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