The C. V.-Zeitung, official organ of the Union of German Citizens of the Jewish Faith, reproduces the text of a suggested school curriculum which appeared in the National-Sozialistischer Erzieher, Nazi education publication.
The school year is divided into ten periods of four weeks each, according to the draft, which lists studies under the following four headings: date, subject, relation to Jews and reading matter.
Under “subject” and “relation to Jews” the following sub-headings are stipulated:
Pre-war Germany, class-war, profit, strike—The Jew makes himself at home!
Agrarian State to Industrial State, colonies—The peasant in the clutches of the Jews!
Conspiracy against Germany, Germany hemmed in—The Jew rules!
Germany’s struggle, German want, blockade! famine! death!—The Jew grows wealthy, exploits Germany’s need.
Stab-in-the-back, collapse—Jews as leaders of the November revolution.
Germany’s Golgotha, Erzberger’s crime, Versailles—East European Jews swarm in; Judas’ triumph!
Adolph Hitler, National Socialism—Judas the enemy.
Blood-drenched frontiers, Germany’s enslavement, voluntary corps, Schlageter—The Jew exploits Germany’s needs; Dawes and Young loans.
National Socialism grapples with the underworld and the criminal world—Jews instigate murder; the Jewish press.
Germany’s youth forward! The victory of faith—War to the end against Juda.
Reading matter specified in the last column includes Der Stuermer, Feder’s “The Jews,” and Hitler’s “Mein Kampf.”
“There has been much discussion among Jewish parents and in the German Jewish movement,” the C. V.-Zeitung comments, “concerning the possibility of Jewish children’s taking part in State political instruction. The overwhelming opinion was that the character of this State political instruction would make it a heavy spiritual burden on Jewish children. We believe this view will be strengthened by this draft curriculum.”
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