Boys play with Legos at a Catholic orphanage in Bonn, Germany, during Advent in 1960. The number of German children in orphanages surged after World War II. The Diocese of Hildesheim is investigating reports that many children in these homes were victims of sexual abuse by clergy.
An investigation by the Diocese of Hildesheim, Germany, is shedding new light on child sex abuse in Catholic children’s homes in the country in the 1950s. A central figure in the inquiry is an esteemed and controversial figure, Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen, a former priest in Nazi-occupied Poland awarded Germany’s highest federal decoration in 1966 for postwar charity work.
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2018/12/14/postwar-orphans-were-victims-of-german-clergy-abuse/
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2018/12/14/postwar-orphans-were-victims-of-german-clergy-abuse/
