Das »Gemeinschaftslager Hanns Kerrl« für Referendare in Jüterbog 1933-1939

During the Nazi period, training camps for individual professions were common instruments for indoctrination, disciplinary action and the selection process, and they also claimed to integrate those taking part into the so-called »people's community«. Using a camp for young legal professionals as an example, Folker Schmerbach begins by analyzing the anti-intellectual and anti-individualist elements and then questions whether or not these camps had the success they wanted. In doing so, he fills a gap in the research on the functioning and effectiveness of this camp, which he compares with similar organizations for young university graduates in a second step. The author also provides contemporary witness accounts: What memories did the 20,000 in the Jüterborg camp have of that time? Is Sebastian Haffner's view that the camp contained »the Third Reich in a nutshell« correct?