Switzerland’s Dark Past
(2016, original release: 2015)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

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DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (64 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
1187019
LANGUAGE
English
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In Process Record

For several decades up until the 1980s, thousands of young Swiss people were thrown into jail without trial, sent to live with foster families or forced into children’s homes, or even sterilized. Their crime? Behavior that was judged to be threatening by a society obsessed with order and conformity. This documentary uses witness testimony, personal archives and original documentation to tell the story of the ordeal suffered by these children, and deciphers a political and social system that drove respectable citizens to exclude others for the sake of their own moral values

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Film

Originally produced by Java Films in 2015

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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