Switzerland’s Dark Past.

For several decades up until the 1980s, thousands of young Swiss people were thrown into jail without trial, sent to live with foster families or forced into children’s homes, or even sterilized. Their crime? Behavior that was judged to be threatening by a society obsessed with order and conformity....

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Corporate Authors: Java Films (Firm),$4dst, Kanopy (Firm),$4dst
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:In English
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Java Films, 2015.
Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
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Summary:For several decades up until the 1980s, thousands of young Swiss people were thrown into jail without trial, sent to live with foster families or forced into children’s homes, or even sterilized. Their crime? Behavior that was judged to be threatening by a society obsessed with order and conformity. This documentary uses witness testimony, personal archives and original documentation to tell the story of the ordeal suffered by these children, and deciphers a political and social system that drove respectable citizens to exclude others for the sake of their own moral values..
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Physical Description:1 online resource (streaming video file) (64 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time:01:03:50
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.