Schneider's Story: A Tale of Winners and Losers

Born in 1959, Karl-Heinz Schneider spent the first years of his life in the orphanage nursery in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz). Abandoned there by his mother with a note begging that he be cared for, the orphanage took him in, gave him a name and a date of birth, and allowed him a roof over his head. At the age of five, he was moved to a children's home in Dresden, where malicious staff cruelly abused those in their care - a place where children had no rights, just obligations. In Dresden,...