This is a very disturbing read about institutional abuse by crypto Nazis and very conservative Catholics in Austria in the late 1940s to the late 1980s. Very similar to the treatment of Indigenous children in residential schools, and of Irish single mothers in Magdalen Laundries. 

What does this kind of history tell us? That “respectable” people can get away with all sorts of unpleasant behaviour merely by being plausible sounding and having academic credentials.