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Reason for admission: loitering

to | Museum Pankow, Prenzlauer Allee

Discipline in venereological wards and special homes in the GDR

The traveling exhibition "Reason for incarceration: prowling" documents state repression against girls and women in the GDR.

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© Museum Pankow in Kooperation mit der Gedenkstätte Geschlossener Jugendwerkhof Torgau und dem Verein Riebeckstraße 63 e. V.

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The focus is on re-education in the closed venereological wards, where sexualized violence was systematically practiced. The main victims were girls and women whose behavior deviated from the socialist ideals of work discipline, living together as partners or loyalty to the state.
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