Were newborns being abducted in the GDR? Did the state fake their deaths? Based on years of
archival research  this book uncovers contradictions and questions that have not yet been
answered  appealing to adoptive parents  especially those in Western countries  to help clarify
the matter. The book uncovers much that is highly suspicious: alleged transports of infants
under 1000 grams birth weight  which were neither technically nor medically possible in 1969 
ominous handwritten notes on the infants' death reports  whose meaning nobody wants to explain
reports of autopsies on the bodies of babies  which cannot be found in any cemetery  close
contacts between the Stasi and the neonatal unit of the Rostock University Women's Hospital -
and full-time Stasi employees working unrecognised as doctors in civilian medical institutions.
Was the GDR home to a top-secret medical shadow empire? If so  what were the motives for
depriving the babies and parents of each other by faking the deaths of newborns? The parents
and siblings of the vanished children have a right to learn the answers.