Commenting on the recent agreement reached between Dr. Bernhard Rust, Reich Minister of Education, and Baldur von Schirach, Youth Leader of the German Reich, wherein provision is made for the education of the school youth in the National Socialist State, the Judische Rundschau urges the need of establishing Jewish schools where Jewish children will not be subjected to influence of racial inferiority teaching.
In the agreement Saturday was set aside as the day on which those pupils who are under the Reich Youth leadership are released from school. Clause 6 of the pact, however, states: “Those pupils who do not belong to the Hitler Youth movement must attend school on Saturdays, for the purpose of taking lessons for at least two hours to bring them closer to the National Socialist idea.”
But “non-Aryan” pupils are released from such attendance. It is this exception in the agreement which caused the Judische Rundschau to write:
“If the entire school youth is as part of the National Socialist idea to be trained in the race theory, we fear that the position of the ‘non-Aryan’ pupils in the schools will become very difficult. This shows how essential it is to provide Jewish pupils with a Jewish education, which will give them the feeling that they are racially equal to any others, that they belong to a great, historically significant, creative community, which other communities regard with respect and honor.”
The paper also points out that this Jewish work could be promoted by acting on the order of the Reich Minister under which Jewish pupils are released from school at request. The great task, the paper concludes, must be taken up immediately by the Reich Committee of Jewish Youth Organizations, for the new school year will be opening shortly.
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