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ARE ALL . is Cath- Klaus, 6, olic, has mentality superior to most boys his age. the capitol, it will be re- layed to Germany where a search will begin for the right child. Information about the children avail- able can be obtained from the Juvenile Affairs office in Munich. Only healthy boys and girls and whose mothers wish them placed with an American family are considered. One Chicagoan spent seven months waiting for American and German of- ficials to find a child for her, then boarded a plane for Germany. She sped up things by visiting welfare agencies there, explaining that she was already ac- Ka Monica, 6, is jriend- ly child whose GI father left before her birth. UP FOR ADOPTION Horst is half- brother to Elke (below), just left mother recently. Six-year-old Elke has been in one foster home after another, remains a lively, charming child despite hardships. credited in Chicago and had given the Displaced Per- sons Commission all the information it requested. With- in three months, she found the boy she wanted, brought him home, is now anxiously awaiting the end of the six months trial period required by Illinois law before his adoption will be official. Until then, she is his legal guardian. Nun consoles Peter Schaefer,1, American colored couple at St. Anna Home in Rheinau. adopted eight-weeks-old Pete. Germany’s brown babies pose a unique problem for the country, which until the occupation era was nearly a lily-white nation. Germans who still cling to Hitler’s race supremacy doctrines discriminate against the babies and their mothers in true Dixiecrat fashion: turning them away when they seek lodgings, refusing the women the chance to work, treating them as social outcasts. Yet, other thousands go all out to fight segregation, do every- thing possible to emphasize the similarities between col- ored and white German children, and work hard to smooth away the difficulties which might prevent them from being assimilated into the life of their country. 20
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