Katrin Behr was only 4 years old when her life was turned upside down forever.
“They came early in the morning and took away my mom,” Behr recalls of that fateful day in 1972 in East Germany, when she became the victim of a large-scale, secretive socialist scheme to separate children from parents considered politically defiant. Her mother’s crime? She wanted to flee the repressive socialist country into U.S.-protected West Germany.
More >> The East Germans split up families, too. It caused lifelong trauma.
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