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Group of Model Dwellings for Workmen, erected by Prof. Schultze-Naumburg in Thuringia, Germany 
GERMAN MODEL HOUSES FOR WORKMEN 
By William Mayner 
Ainertcan Consulate-General, Berlin 
II.—THE GENERAL PROBLEM 
T)EFORE entering upon a further description 
^ of the houses recently erected for workmen 
and petty civil servants in Germany, some little 
explanation is necessary regarding the origin of the 
onward movement of social reform in the Father- 
land. What I shall now show is that the construc¬ 
tion of improved houses for the poor on a systematic- 
plan would probably not have been practicable, 
MODEL DWELLINGS FOR WORKMEN, ERECTED BY THE BERLIN SAVINGS AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION 
Street View of the Colony in the Stargard Str. 
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