A Jewish pupil actually showed other children how Hebrew characters look, complained the Westpfalische Landeszeitung of Dortmund, demanding immediate action against the “guilty teacher.”
“In Meschede,” the paper declared, “a pupil in a Catholic elementary school came home and showed his parents his slate with all sorts of hieroglyphics on it. Asked what it meant, he explained to his astonished parents that he could write Hebrew.
“The teacher had asked a Jewish |boy named Ransenberg to write Hebrew on the blackboard and the other pupils had to copy the symbols, so all were now able to write Hebrew.
“It is inconceivable that such a thing should happen in the National Socialist State, but it actually happened in Meschede. We regard it essential that the higher authorities should immediately call such an educator to task.”
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