Evening star., 1945-07-22

says, should explore ways OF making
up the necessary number of teachers
from old teachers of the Weimar Pc
riod, from Germans who have lived
long abroad and who are accustomed to
democratic methods, from the ranks of
the anti-Hitler movement, from teach
ers who have been expelled or have be-
come refugees and, for certain sub
jects, from nationals of other countries. u
Would Censor All Texts.
All books, maps, slides, films, pictures
and other apparatus already in use or to
be prepared should be censored;
ITO help in bridging the intellectual
gulf between Germany and the free
world and to give to German youth a
new purpose in life, the fullest possible
use should be made of films of every
kind radio lessons. talks and
feature programs -" 81;
The greatest possible emphasis should
be placed on demonstrating the horrors
and futility of war;
To further aid in the indoctrination
of democratic ideals, university students
would be partly educated abroad;
Leisure-time activities would be pro-
vided to educate body, mind and char
acter for the service of the high ideal
of citizenship;
Conditions would be created under
which new leaders with new ideas might
emerge and hope to work successfully.
But what about the Older people, the
workers, those thoroughly indoctrinated
with the Nazi ideology?
The commission has proposed system
of education for them as we'll 1t would
organize adult education classes in uni
versities, trades unions, educational and
religious organizations, and exercise
control over newspapers, weekly periodi-
nation. ''Mein Kampf" and other
canonical writings OF the Nazi party
would ,be pulped down and the paper
so obtained used for books written in
the democratic tradition.
Work Already Underway.
Several of these suggestions already
have been acted upon by Allied author
tiles in Germany. Films have been
shown to the German people demon
,strating the horrors of Nazi rule in con-
centration camps. People in neighbor-
ing towns and villages have been forced
to dig common graves for mass burial
of the victims of these camps as visible
symbol of the responsibility of all Ger
mans for these crimes.
Teachers are being screened by Rus
sian as we'll as American occupying
forces and skeleton classes have been
formed which are now utilizing text
GERS have just granted permission for
publication of the first German news
papers which have been purged of Nazi
writer's and propaganda.
Meantime, independent agencies,
awaiting the day when an official United
Nations commission will be appointed,
have been implementing the various
recommendations of educators and COM
mittees.
For example, the publishing house of
Bermann- Fischer, directed by Gottfried
B. Fischer, himself refugee from Nazi
Germany, is preparing world history
under the general editorial direction of
DR.. Fritz Karsen of Harvard University.
Dr. Frederick Kramer has prepared a
textbook on ancient history, DR.. Emmy
Heller of Brooklyn College has done one
on medieval history, DR.. Hugo Bieber
and other specialists in the field of his
torical research collaborated on mod
ern history text.
Experienced German editors and edu-
Gators now in the United States have
prepared series of German readers.
Other books on chemistry, biology,
physics and mathematics are being held
in manuscript form, awaiting editing
and the approval of the United Nations
before being published.
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