The image of children in residential care in the 1950s and 1960s

This work deals with the upbringing of children in educational institutions in the post-war period. Children in care spent their childhood in unimaginable conditions in church or state institutions. The educational methods and goals of authoritarian residential education were based on violence, power and forced labour. The paper describes the placement of young people in care under the Youth Welfare Act of 1924.

Autorentext
After completing my BA in Social Work at HAWK Hildesheim, I worked as a social worker in a residential home for men in Hanover.