State Owned Children(2021)
Overview
Following in the footsteps of two women in search of their origins, this documentary lifts the veil on a little-known page of the post-war era: the adoption, as part of a cross-border program, of thousands of children born during the French occupation of Germany.
Keywords
adoptionlooking for birth parentsgerman occupationgerman occupation of francepost warpost war lifebiological parentssearch for motheroccupied france (1940-44)adoptive parentinternational adoptionsearch for fathersearching for biological parents