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2025-04-19 News & Politics
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From 1992, Lesley Stahl's look at how the East German government took the children of political dissidents. From 2023, Cecilia Vega's report on desperate Ukrainian women going behind enemy lines in Russian-occupied territory to rescue their abducted children. Also from 1992, Mike Wallace's report on the victims of Georgia Tann, who took babies from their mothers and gave them up for adoption. From March of this year, Jon Wertheim's report on an Argentine woman who tracked down her brother after he was snatched at birth during the country's military dictatorship-era. And from 2024, Bill Whitaker's story on how the Vatican sent Italian children born out of wedlock to America as orphans. #news #crime "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected] 0:00 Intro 0:11 Children of the Berlin Wall 13:28 Disappeared 26:40 Black Market Babies 41:07 Death Flights 54:29 The Vatican's Orphans

Top Comments (10)

@debbieh6684 2025-04-19

The US government did this to the Native American children.

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@woopwoop1747 2025-04-22

😢 heartbreaking stories 💔 . My amazing mum was forced to put my brother up for adoption in the 1966 when she was 18. We are still looking for him now. My mum is brave and buries her emotions. But I know that all these years later, she still longs for her baby boy. In the UK so many mothers were forced into believing that they couldn't keep their babies born out of wedlock 😢. Love and strength to all those mums and lost child ❤️

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@CindyHunter-y8v 2025-04-19

These stories are heartbreaking 💔 I’m glad that some of them have a happy ending

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@beenice9867 2025-04-19

This is so incredibly sad.

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@ItsJennx 2025-04-22

His mother must’ve been so PROUD to learn that her son rejected his communist indoctrination. She must’ve been saying “That’s MY son! with MY blood pumping through his heart!”

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@skypeter-thompson 2025-04-25

Back during the Great Depression, my maternal grandmother worked as a cook for a Catholic orphanage in Chicago. While she never saw any money change hands, she did say that whenever a child was adopted out, the pantry was suddenly replenished with food and other supplies. She figured the prettier kids were bringing a higher price, because when they were adopted out, the quantity of food in the pantry was larger than it was following other adoptions. When she asked about it, the county health department put her house and family under quarantine for diphtheria, though none of them were sick. She also lost her job.

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@hakimgainstapout 2025-04-19

Am addicted to 60 Minutes and this video was Aird when I was 4 days old at the middle of the bushes in Malawi 🇲🇼 ,,,,, very sad the place I was born it is still look the same

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@Bornfree-q8f 2025-04-22

This is a horrible thing to do to a mother and her babies!!

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@worldpeace8187 2025-04-25

My was born in 1940 & became pregnant at 16. The hospital in small rural community tried to talk her into giving her baby to them because she wasn't old enough and couldn't provide a good life for the baby. She didn't do it! 💜💜

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@kathrynsinclare8459 2025-04-21

Nothing surprises me with Government. So sad.

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