Educational Materials

The educational materials presented here can be used at schools, memorial sites or by independent organisations for pupils in grades 9 to 13. They were created with the aim of raising public awareness of the issue of forced labour and giving young people the opportunity to form an informed opinion about forced labour in the GDR prison system.
The materials consist of an introductory section as well as Module I (‘Political Detention’) and Module II (‘Forced Labour’). The tasks to be completed are based on abridged versions of five contemporary witness interviews. The biographies of the eyewitnesses and the links to the interviews can be found in the files available for download.