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Juvenile detention centre
Between 1949 and 1989 the East German authorities took severe measures against deviant behaviour among young people. They sent them to reformatories such as juvenile detention centres (»Jugendwerkhof«). Skipping school was often enough to warrant punishment. The minors were to be re-educated through strenuous physical labour. These institutions were like the workhouses which had existed for a long time.