This is Margot Honecker
First Lady of East Germany, for decades the Purple Witch ran a concentration camp for children
Children as young as seven were routinely raped by their caretakers, drawn to a career where prey would be readily available
Kids were placed in solitary confinement
Suicidal ideation was common and many acted on it
One boy tried to kill himself to distract the guards so his pals could escape
This wasn't in Stalin's Russia or Hitler's Germany
This was in 1989
I'm old enough to remember 1989
I will do my best to bear witness for them in The White Pill.
"And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners." --Howard Zinn
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