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Willie Winkler
When it started back then with the Odenwald schoolyears of abuse by the head of the boarding school, well covered by the Weizsäcker network, then also at the Canisius College in Berlin, this time it was the Jesuits who fingered their protégés when it all started with discussions and pamphlets, with round and square ones tables and the usual hand-wringing How is it even possible?!, I was visiting my parents. My mother, who for ten years had dropped me off at the Benedictine boarding school on Sunday evenings after the weekends I had been driving home, bravely asked about the embarrassment of the subject, albeit with a concern that was several decades late: “Was that the case with you too?” No, I could sincerely assure her, no, the Fathers didn’t abuse us, at least not me.