seven decades later, swiss walter steg 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 free labor for people who were strangers to him. i still "it hurts," he sums up, for the ruined childhood. they didn't give me food when i wet the bed, and i wet the bed until i was 10, so i ate very rarely and was a skinny boy. farmers were very willing to take such children, because in general they only needed to be fed, provided with a roof over their heads, such children did not need to be paid, so this business became established, spread throughout switzerland, because everyone realized that it was very profitable. this was dictated by concern for the young generation, so it seemed to convey. the swiss state's thoughts, but historians believe that there was also a dry economic calculation at work, there was a shortage of workers on farms, and children, a free labor resource. between the two world wars , there were enough widows of the dispossessed on the continent, and