The community of stolen children of GDR has presented a petition in Bundestag with call for a so-called clearing house on subject of forced adoptions. The injustice must be reworked, said Andreas Laake, chairman of Leipzig Association. The Petition Committee of Bundestag will now deal with demands. This also includes a legal claim to state support.

A convoy of cars with around 80 participants was launched on Wednesday in Dresden. Under motto "Ride for Justice" y drove to Berlin and gave petition re. The association, which has about 1,500 members according to its own data, goes from 300 to 400 cases in which children were deprived of ir biological parents by pressure from GDR regime.

Hardly any opportunity to find children

Frank Schumann, a representative of association, said tagesschau24 that it was often about parents who were "politically unliebsam" after reading SED regime. The children were declared dead immediately after birth and passed on without knowledge of ir biological parents for adoption to regime-loyal couples.

For those affected, it is still hardly possible to learn more about whereabouts of ir children: "If you ask an adoption office today wher re are documents and you want to see m, adoption agency says to protect child, we cannot Documents. "

For this reason, association also requests legal information for all Adoptivstellen as well as extension of retention periods for files in maternity clinics in its petition.

Valid numbers are not yet available

The state Commissioner for reworking of SED dictatorship had recently demanded that any forced adoption should be clarified. To date, however, re has been no serious evidence of systematic and nationwide adoptions against will of children and parents for political reasons. "Despite this, every single case remains a tragedy." To date, only a few individual cases have been proven.

A preliminary study on dimension of politically motivated GDR adoption procedures was recently published between 1966 and 1990. From point of view of National Commissioner, number estimation re is "completely premature". Scientific research is necessary.

The Chairman of Committee on Petitions, Marian Wendt (CDU), announced in Leipzig folk newspaper that he wanted to initiate a political debate on long-repressed subject with petition. In addition to interest of victims to enlighten ir destiny, "this dark side of GDR's past must finally be reworked." It was "perhaps one of last major chapters of GDR injustice State," said CDU politician.

Date Of Update: 06 April 2018, 12:02