European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Schoolmates is carried out by a school director and a school Council of five All their of Are subject to approval by the military in the Gray Stone building which houses the military government and Aachen municipal same building which once housed the Gestapo school school Council and the mayor of Aachen met to consult with the military government on the final plans for the schools the meeting opened on an almost Jovial the or Oberberger Wilhelm thanked All pres ent for their he genially expressed Confidence that everything was in Able then John Bradford spoke for the military slim and with a at his the major put both fists on the leaned Forward and talked As he the germans quit beaming at each they looked Bradford was putting it on the he said you teachers have a great you Are to be allowed to teach the German to re educate to turn it away from the base Ness of the nazis have brought upon this world a War which has killed millions of germans a War which has killed millions of men from other countries who were forced to fight to prevent its evil from encompassing by fighting and dying these men have saved the world from nazism and have indeed saved the German but you have been freed from nazism not through your own now you Are being Given a Chance to save your own the Hope of the German people can be in its and that Hope rests upon what you will do with its it is up to the immediate future of Germany May be and some of you May be but do not let anyone say it is because the allies did not bring in food for remember the nazi by resisting so has caused the disruption of the entire transportation system of and remember that Long before Naz the inbred militarism and the super race fallacy helped create the debacle Germany brought on mayor Rombach squinted through the removed his monocle and put it on a he did not look at Bent Forward at the end of the the major calling the Roll of German you yourselves must find a Way and you can do it by teaching your children to Honor True and honest ways of by giving them a Cour age and purpose that will Lead to Fellowship with other Peoples instead of a false belief of superiority Over do not be misled by the thought that people of Allied countries Are making any great distinction Between those who were nazis and the rest of the German the rest of the world has seen and suffered too intimately from the great fascist which could have lasted so Long and created such a horror Only because behind its forces was the whole Power of the German they know that to be faced by the nazis alone would have been nothing if the strength and Blind loyalty of the German people had not been fighting for the nazi As Bradford mayor Rombach restored the monocle to his he put it Back in his Vest Karl a was selected As director of he is 67 years and has spent 40 of his years As a he was removed As a teacher by the nazis Back in 1937 because one of his parents happened to be he belongs politically to the conservative Center As does Oberhue Germeister please said that German and German do not know what has happened in the world for 12 we know Only the nazi the reasons for the catastrophe that has overtaken Germany must be explained truth fully to we do not want to refill their minds with but we must explain what they do not this will be schools Are using As textbooks reprinted ver Sions of the same books that were used by the Weimar Republic before the Hitler courses include physical training and no history is being taught textbooks state this is Best Book which could be found in the circumstances and must serve until Germany produces better textbooks of its the old nazi books were of with Boodan Thunder eulogies of Hitler the states Man Hitler the Warrior the charming Little who loved his papa and mama and almost All the nazi in some showed a picture of a hog gorging himself at a shying away the Little now in use Tell of Snow Cin Gold who was a Good girl and was showered with and pitch who was a Stinker and was showered with from everyday from the problems that arise in the teachers often to furnish a new interpretation of Good and we said to replace the Mystic trappings of nazism with something con Crete and we must fill the void left by the elimination of Hitler and we must teach these boys and girls that they have a Kin ship with the world that their future lies with that of All the people everywhere and not with that of a greater there seemed to be in Aachen a Lack of agree ment about the something Concrete and Good to replace the Defeated concepts of Many people in Aachen talked glibly of this new concept of but few people seemed to know exactly what it was or How it would be explained to or explained at teachers whose work is carefully supervised by the military government do their Best with books on but it is hard to translate High sounding phrases into simple illustrations for boys and girls who Are hearing strange new ideas for the first and it is hard to make Cin Derella sound like a great or to make a pumpkin coach As exciting As a children sit at their desks and there is who wants to be a tailor and buy an american motor Bike there is who likes to Model pillboxes out of Clay there is who is afraid of grownups and wants always to be a Little and who thinks democracy is not so much fun As the children listen Seldom offering to puzzling lessons commonplace in most lands that Good people do not attack their neighbors that peace is preferable to War that being a liar and a bully brings its own retribution witness the that it is inviting Trou ble to Stone an old lady because she is polish or czechoslovakian or they hear of strange lands where the people choose their own leaders and where the loser is not discipline is the classrooms Are there will be no trouble with the smaller said with the older it May be necessary to be very even in dealing out punishment we shall try to use when a boy or girl causes trouble in the we will let the class decide How to Best punish the i am opposed to except in the most extreme the children Are but they seem con when a plane passes they look at each other and toward the teacher and toward the they have seen and they do not know what to this is an old school scarred by it has sent out As citizens thousands of German boys and most of the boys who sat at these desks have become soldiers and the children can look up from their lessons in inadequate books and see from the windows the shattered town the Spires of the Cathedral still standing and the winding Road that leads to the great War Page 12