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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.