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[German Version] I. Social Sciences Children and youths were treated as small adults into the 19th century. By the middle of that century, it was finally recognized that children (Child/Childhood) require protected spaces in which they can develop (Psychology of adolescence). This led to the first German Youth Employment Protection Act of 1839. Until well into the 20th century, German youth protection primarily saw itself as a supervisory authority. The 1920s were dominated by the struggle against Schund und Schmutz (“obscenity and filth”) in motion pictures and books. A Reichsfilmg…