Workhouses were institutions that emerged with industrialisation. Their function was to “educate”, through manual labour, people who were not in wage labour and to integrate them into industrial production. These included the homeless, beggars, vagrants, alcoholics, sex workers and some people unable to look after themselves. After 1933, the Nazis used workhouses to intern people they deemed “workshy” or “antisocial”. They were forced to work, often in factories, quarries or on the land.
Workhouses
- Synonyms: „Workhouse Rummelsburg“, Arbeitshauses
