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Do good in Brandenburg – what could not be written on this topic! Manifold are the ways in which good intention unfolds in practice - and even more numerous than the forms of neediness are the methods of providing its remedy. Some of these variants of helping, healing and good works, we may introduce you in this booklet. Our authors take you to the Great Orphanage in Potsdam and to the workhouses of the 19th century, extinguish fires with you and visit midwives, search for pictures of poverty and explore the work of Caritas, diaconia and Jewish welfare. Time and again, it shows that hardly anything can be learned more about a society than from the way it deals with its weakest links. This is especially true for historical forms of "helping" - such as the National Socialist "people's welfare" - which we would hardly call such today. Help, healing, doing good? It's not always that simple. How do you invite you to discover this complex theme in the history of Brandenburg with us.