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Education and language teaching in the Reichsgau Sudetenland

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2022

Abstract

The article deals with the transformation of Sudeten German education after the annexation of the Czechoslovak border areas to the Third Reich on the basis of the Munich Agreement in 1938. The new goals of educational efforts included raising youth hardened by ideology and capable of blindly sacrificing themselves for the ideas of National Socialism.

In this way, Sudeten German competent administrative authorities gradually changed the curriculum and the content of the curriculum, which were supposed to adapt to the already established conditions in other parts of the Third Reich. There were also different ideas regarding the requirements for the teaching profession and the role of individual types of schools and school subjects in the education of a young person.