What about the characters in MONSTER? When did they go through Kinderheim?

Grimmer and Roberto were among the first batch of boys through.
Grimmer likely being one of the first children in 511, admitted in '62.
Roberto being brought in in '63.

We’re not sure when Stefan Joos was brought in (the guy Richard Braun shoots). But we do know he left around 1984, 10 months before it’s destruction.
Johan was brought in in 1982; Christof we don’t know; but they both survive it’s destruction.

And my best character Wolfgang grimmer was the only good person from this  kinderheim

The scariest part of Monster is  the realism blended with Johan's mystique. You look at modern political and social climates, and you can see how something like this could happen, and this is where Monster enters into a new category of terror and horror.

"this is an experiment"- Franz Bonaparta
I still get chills from that line

Kinderheim 511 doesn’t exist, but something similar existed, such as: Geschlossener Jugendwerkhof Torgau (The closed youth work yard in Torgau). People between the ages of 14 and 20 lived there. Due to the unbearable living conditions, deliberate humiliation and physical abuse; there were many suicides. It is still unknown how many of them committed suicide.

I have a few theories about the characters who attend Kinderheim 511.

1. Roberto/Adolf probably remembers Grimmer’s name, maybe not in the moment but in the subconscious, maybe some of his other alias, maybe they were the names of the other kids who attended Kinderheim, and maybe just by luck, one of them was Grimmer’s real name. (I know I am thinking to much about this theory but it could be a little possibility, because one of Bonaparta’s alias was his real name)

2. This one is much darker, I saw it in a post of tumblr a few months ago, but I think there was also sexu*l abuse, because the condition that Grimmer has is dissociative identity disorder, which as we know it’s caused when someone goes through extreme trauma and they develop another identity as a protector, in this case Steiner the magnificent, as we had saw Grimmer “blacks out” when he is in a stressful/dangerous situation Steiner takes over, but he is not there to cause harm at all, he is protecting Grimmer. But I think in order to have such a violent alter, there must have been certain situation where he went through to wanting to protect himself so badly, as it seems he is the only kid who was allowed to watch TV 📺, but there is a certain scene where we see that they took Grimmer to a dark bedroom and he doesn’t want to go, they tried to “induce” him to have that alter ego by projecting over and over that series, so it’s the only figure of a “strong person” he can look forward. I wanted to share this not in a morbid way but in a scientific/psychiatry way I even asked my psychiatrist a little bit about this stuff and he told me that someone must be very young because they are generating their own identity and it’s also usually related to a lot of types of abuse, including s*xual, especially if they don’t remember that stuff because their 🧠 doesn’t want to.

If you really think about it, Johan started the earliest school killing game before dangan ronpa and battle Royal made it mainstream.🤔

You show the show was amazing when the mere location name “511 Kinderheim” sends literal chills down my spine

Always nice to see you posting more Urasawa content! Though I'd argue that the amnesia associated with 511 Kinderheim is not so much the effect of drugs, but rather PTSD-associated repression and/or a hindered ability to form memories (as a side effect of destroying the boys' sense of self).

It kinda reminds me of this neurological condition called Wernicke's aphasia, wherein the brain area responsible for language comprehension is damaged, typically due to a stroke. For those who managed to recover from it, they always report amnesia over what the experience was like, and it's believed to be due to the fact that we need language to encode memories in the first place.

Thus, by stripping away the language associated with a sense of self (e.g. taking the boys' names, squashing any expressions of their individuality), the kids are robbed of the psychological faculties by which to encode autobiographical/episodic memories. After all, how can I remember what happend to me, when there isn't even a "me" for these things to happen to?

I think the amnesia is infinitely more frightening if it's rooted psychologically, rather than pharmacologically. That's just my two cents as a cognitive neuroscience major, haha

Oh wow, this video opens up a lot of doors into Monster. I love how deep and though out the story of that manga is. Everything is detailed and grounded in real world concepts and events.

When i first watched monster at first i thought it was a drama. The show progressed and i thought it was a crime series. At the end it became a disturbing psycological horror. I did not sleep well after watching it that night..

511 Kinderheim >>>>>>>>>> Whiteroom

Possibly my favorite Anime, ever. I was so enthralled by every episode. Can't wait for PLUTO anime to launch.

Thank you for your persistence on these monster videos. Not only are they informative, but they keep the well-deserved legacy of the story continued as it’s deserved

And slowly..... you come to realize...

Eugenics experiment

Please keep releasing content like this, I’m a psych student who is half German so interesting

Nah man. It's exactly as bad as i think.

Great oration and synopsis. Deserves more views.

always a good day when Seagee uploads