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Other context Berlin, Germany · 1969

The Kentler experiment: foster placements with known pedophiles in West Berlin

Record class

Separate register

Evidence status

Official finding

Authority role

See cited record

Organization

No organization assigned

Spiritual nexus

Berlin-commissioned research documented a decades-long public-welfare failure in which vulnerable boys were placed with known pedophiles. Its relationship to spiritual-abuse history is contextual and concerns ideology, authority, and institutional legitimization rather than religion.

    Primary record

    Sources

    The New Yorker, “The German Experiment That Placed Foster Children with Pedophiles” (July 26, 2021).

    The report synthesizes the Berlin-commissioned findings and surviving records. The dossier is classified as historical context, outside the modern core map.