Infant care at the Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus, Berlin 1937
A nurse washes and changes babies, toddlers sleep in rows of cots, small children garden with their teachers, and young women read letters on the steps of a house.
At a long changing table a young nurse in a white cap and apron washes a baby from an enamel bowl, wraps it and wipes a toddler's face. In a large room with a clock on the wall, small children sleep in rows of low cots under white covers while nurses tend others at the tables and a row of little ones sits on potties. Outside, a fair-haired girl rakes a flower bed by a picket fence and a child hoes the soil under a young teacher's guidance, and on the steps of a large house among pines four young women sit reading letters.
The Pestalozzi-Fröbel-Haus in Berlin, built up from 1874 by Henriette Schrader-Breymann, a great-niece of Friedrich Fröbel, trained kindergarten teachers and nurses. Its day nursery cared for the children of working mothers, whom the regime's ideal of the mother at home did not provide for.
