Society – Düsseldorf – NRW: Coming to terms with the suffering of the “children sent away” – society

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – North Rhine-Westphalia has been working on the processing of the fate of millions of so-called deportation children since the 1950s. From the post-war period until the 1980s, according to estimates by the “Dispatched Children” initiative, eight to twelve million children and young people across Germany were sent to weeks of treatment. Many of these girls and boys, ages two to fourteen, were expecting sleep deprivation, beatings, isolation, food deprivation, and humiliation rather than rest in the homes.

A working group set up in October 2020 is in constant dialogue with the NRW regional group of the “Displacement Children” initiative, announced the NRW Ministry of Health on request. The ministry will support an “extensive project” by the association to advise traumatized children who have been deported and to conduct research into citizens. In addition, a short study was commissioned for NRW. It is primarily about data on the number of children and adolescents sent and on the homes.

The ministry is also committed to ensuring that “the necessary comprehensive scientific processing by the federal government begins promptly,” it said. “The scientific processing of the topic complex and the collection of reliable knowledge about the extent of the dispatches are still at the very beginning.”

The Federal Government’s First Youth Report from 1965 states that at the end of 1963 there were almost 840 spa, healing, convalescent and convalescent homes for minors with almost 57,000 places in the Federal Republic.

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