THE ARCHIVE [Das Archiv] 1934, Pages 1039, 1147-1148.
School community to replace parents' advisory committee
Reich Minister of Education Rust has issued radically new regulations in a decree concerning the relationship between parents, schools, and Hitler Youth who are students, by replacing the parents' advisory committees in public schools by "school communities." The national-socialistic idea demands service and responsibility instead of liberalistic representation of interests of parents' advisory committees.
The school community consists of all teachers of the school, the students' parents, and representatives, of the Hitler Youth (HJ leaders or BDM leaders). The school principal is the leader; as his helpers he appoints from among the parents and teachers two to five youth advisors [Jugendwalter] according to the size of the school. In addition, one HJ-leader is to be delegated as "Jugendwalter" to this group in agreement with the district leader of the HJ in charge. About cooperation the following is said in the decree: "Although home, school, and Hitler Youth each have their separate tasks and responsibilities of education, they also have a common responsibility for the success of education in general, i.e. including those educational institutions in which they do not participate directly. All efforts of educational character by the different groups of educators fulfill their purpose only if it is kept in mind that they carry out only parts of the work within the total general plan of youth education by the State."
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The duties of the school communities are outlined as follows: The educational goals of the new State are to be explained and made intelligible to the public. Subjects to be dealt with are: State's family welfare, racial questions, hereditary indoctrination, hereditary eugenics, physical training, labor service and youth league. Voluntary aid in improving school facilities should be encouraged. The cooperation of all persons participating in the education should be cultivated by enterprises such as lectures, movies, exhibitions, sports events, school and public celebrations, hikes. Pedagogical questions are to be discussed in the school community and made intelligible. No activity is excluded which may serve to promote national education in home, school, and youth league. The "Jugendwalter" are appointed for a period of one year at the beginning of the school year. Before the appointment is made the competent local group leader of the NSDAP is to be consulted. * * *
NSDAP takes over education of university students Referring to the decree of Reich Minister of Education Rust, of 14 November, transferring the entire political and ideological education of university students exclusively to the National Socialistic German Student League, NSDStB [Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund]—see Sk, page 1260—the Commissioner of the party for academic matters, Dr. Gerhard Wagner, has published in the Nationalsozialistisehe Partikorrespondenz (No. 269) a comment concerning in particular matters of education in felloivship houses and fraternities.
It starts with the introductory statement that, as a consequence of the new regulation, the NSDAP has the responsibility for the education of the students which has been transferred to the NSDStB. Among other things the following is said:
"The NSDStB is a branch of the party. As in all party organizations, the local group leaders of university and professional schools are appointed by the regional leader [GauleiterJ in charge as functionary of the party [Hoheitstraeger], upon suggestion of, and in agreement with, the Reich bureau chief [Reichsamtsleiter] of the NSDStB. However, they will receive directives for their work from the Reich bureau chief of the NSDStB. In the future, three will be a fellowship-house of the NSDStB at every university, if necessary, also at professional schools. Thus fellowship-houses created by the states will be abrogated. In these fellowship-houses of the NSDStB the members of the NSDStB and thus the prospective leaders of the nation, are to be educated in the social spirit of the NSDAP. It is left to the fraternities themselves to decide whether further dormitories should
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be created by the fraternities in addition to this fellowship-house of the StB. In any case, the NSDAP declines to enforce anything in this respect. Fraternities which prefer their present form to community life [Wohngemeinschaft] will not be considered as inferior by the NSDAP, because the party does not consider the fellowship-education within the fraternities as an indispensable prerequisite for national socialist education and qualification. Beyond this, the fraternities will enjoy considerable freedom, as to academic customs. The young generation is to decide for itself, whether it wants to continue wearing ribbons and caps or choose a different form of community life. However, one point must be clear to everyone: the political line of the entire body of German students [Deutsche Studentenschaft] will be determined in the future exclusively by the NSDStB, i. e. by the party. There is no room in the Third Reich for fraternities or alumni corporations which believe they can still follow their special brand of policy as in the past. The NSDStB has intentionally kept out of the controversies within the fraternities and corporations of students and will do so in the future. The party expects the fraternities to obey the rules of the NSDAP in selecting their new members and, on the other hand, concedes them a certain period within which to purge their alumni membership; however, it goes without saying that the party will greatly welcome declarations by any fraternity for all its members to the effect that it voluntarily and on its own initiative already embraces the principles of the NSDAP.
Announcement of the creation of "school communities" to combine teachers, parents, and Hitler Youth in support of school operations, in consultation with the party; announcement of the establishment of NSDAP-led "fellowship houses" at universities and the application of party principles to fraternities
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Date: November 1934
Literal Title: Das Archiv . . . School community to replace parents' advisory committee.
Total Pages: 3
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: PS-2399
Citation: IMT (page 255)
HLSL Item No.: 450292
Notes:The first announcement is not dated; the second is dated Nov-Dec 1934. On the second and third pages the evidence code number was mistyped as PS 2393 and corrected by hand to PS 2399.