Yes but hardly a swiss specialty.

In the UK the codebreaker of the enigma Alan Turing was prosecuted and chemically castrated for BEING GAY in 1952.

Let's all take a look at what people have done in the past, including our respective countries, in the name of morality and humanity.

Bad bastards world wide should teach us a few lessons.

Now where should those new asylum centers be built/rejected?

I am only astonished to see that people are astonished. It was a long "tradition" in Switzerland and Northern Italy for centuries. Add to this that Gypsies in Switzerland were robbed of their children by Pro Juventute in order "to give them a better life in new families" until the late 1950ies.

Both things were/are known. Known all the time.

Uhhhhhhh ! I din`t know that Where can I send a letter of thanks .Maybe I start a new tradition

The details are here
http://www.edoeb.admin.ch/dokumentat...x.html?lang=de

but I doubt that Pro Juventate would be pleased by getting a "letter of thanks" for the "work" in question

http://www.thata.net/eindunklerfleckdeutsch.pdf

According to to the names on page 4 I am Jenisch

And so possibly was US President Herbert Hoover who was out of the HUBER family from the Toggenburg. I only in the USA learnt that President Hoover was the one who took the necessary measures to cope with the economic crisis of 1929.

How did you know my name is huber And will you at it check out Eisenhover

Back on topic: I saw the film "Der Verdingbub" this afternoon, and I was very impressed with everything, story, acting, filming etc. etc. I am thinking of going again, as I understood most of the dialect, but not all of it.

Why on earth didn't they add sub titles? Maybe so people like me go a second time?

Eisenhauer were from the Schwarzwald, just as the Kuckuckuhr

Hi!

I am currently doing education work for teenagers, young adults and adults in the exhibition "Verdingkinder reden" at Zurich and am surprised to see that the topic seems to be so much discussed in an international community.

In my work I had to realize that for many people it is surprising to hear that a now rich country like Switzerland used to be poor, especially in the rural areas or mountain valleys... and that a country with humanitarian reputation actually also has its skeletons in the closet (not just historically).

In the discussion with teenagers and adults, many of them are of Swiss origins, still, quite a few are second generation or have immigrated themselves, it has been most fruitful to put the topic of how the contract children have been dealt with in the past also in a broader context, also a contemporary context: eventually it is about how do children grow up today? what are there living (and working!) conditions? Unfortunately, I have to say, what these children have experienced is still happening today... may be not in Switzerland, yet, in some parts of Europe, in Asia, in Africa, the Americas...

Many are outraged about how authorities, neighbours, community members used to turn a blind eye to what was happening to the contract children. However, in how far are we looking... acting when we know that this is still happening today?
May be that is the most bothersome question for us that comes out from dealing with the exhibition, and from hearing the former contract children talk about what they have experienced and what they think about it today.

The gradual change came about between 1798 and 1900. It not only was the period of industrialization, it most of all was the period of political and structural changes. But of course, the urban areas profited far more of the progress, while remote rural areas were behind, and progress reached the remoter areas only as late as in the period between 1890 and 1910, not only in Switzerland but also in the South of the German Empire and in most areas of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.

The film Verdingbub is really recommendable, though the berner dialect was hard to understand.