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The Crisis of Reform Schools

In the late 1920s, a collection of auto-biographical texts by occupants of a children’s home, so called ‘Fürsorgezöglinge’, caused an outrage and fuelled a debate about the future of German reform schools.

The texts have now been republished in a critical edition for the first time, making these unique source available again for Weimar research.

Werkstatt Alltagsgeschichte (ed.): ‘Du Mörder meiner Jugend’. Edition von Aufsätzen männlicher Fürsorgezöglinge aus der Weimarer Republik


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Jochen Hung (June 23, 2011). The Crisis of Reform Schools. Weimar Studies Network. Retrieved November 7, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/vbi5