later, when they were adults, the ferding kinders admitted that no one cared for them in their new familiestion, they were used for hard labor and were subjected to psychological and physical abuse. i had to eat in a small windowless room next to the stable. i was never allowed to sit at the kitchen table, i was bullied for days in a barn without light, and was rarely fed. my adoptive father raped me repeatedly, that's how these people remember their childhood. many of them, unable to bear it, committed suicide, some took this step already in adulthood, others continue to be haunted by the trauma received in childhood, and the desire to commit suicide does not leave them to this day. according to historians' estimates, 100,000 bonded children became victims of the cruel policy. a typical story: seven decades later, the swiss walter steck recalls his ruined childhood. when he was only five, the authorities decided that his parents were too poor to raise a child, and walter became an unpaid laborer. by force from strangers to him. it still hurts me - he sums up, for the ruined childhood. i wa