English Translation

22/227 "Our hope of being able to provide the students with precise information on the calculation of their previous studies and the date of their graduation was not fulfilled, since in most cases their training had so far been carried out according to a much different order from the German curricula. However, it emerged that the students of the science-oriented subjects physics, chemistry, pharmacy, biology, medicine, dentistry and veterinary medicine, engineering and engineering could join the course of study of the German university without too much friction. A large number of students of the above-mentioned subjects were admitted to German universities in the first trimester of 1940. The recording and steering of the repatriated students was made particularly difficult by one circumstance. It is not only the training courses in the neighbourhood that are fundamentally different from the corresponding study regulations in their former host countries, but the attitude towards study and academic profession is in most cases strongly contradictory to our views on the returnees. While the study is a whole of tires, learning and education, the perfection of which is to be achieved in a final exam, the western European system of Polish, Latvian and Estonian universities ruled, in which the knowledge base of a specialist science is divided into the smallest areas and the progressive management of each section must be demonstrated by a partial examination. Studying here is the sum of partial exams. This narrow school system shows strong repercussions on the students. World view and political orientation of the scientific holistics is something completely new to them, to which they can only change their mind very slowly. At the same time, under these predictions hardly fruitful relationships of study and profession were to be gained. In addition, a creative deepening of the study through the image of the later profession was prevented by fundamental practical difficulties, which generally led to a completely foreign study orientation. In the case of a whole series of students who have returned, there was an attitude which, overly sharp, could be formulated as follows: after the school-leaving examination, the high school graduate took up his studies and at the same time chose a practical profession. The study was carried out in addition to the profession in the form of a hobby. In the first place, there is no prospect of pursuing the academic profession; in other cases, the fact that they often had the main job alone through long periods of time lost hope of ever reaching the academic occupation. In the majority of cases, where the characteristic phenomena were not so sharp, the study was hardly possible as a vocational preparation. A large part of the return students exceeded the age of 30, is married and even has a family. Very often the problem of studying theology arose, where the advice had to make clear in any case what difference exists between the volcanic importance of the Church in the outer districts of the unproductive people and the unprofitable position of the pastors in the community within our empire. In many cases, theologians could be guided into the training courses according to their predisposition and essential for the creating community. Among these forecasts, the advisory service had the difficult task of informing the students about the changes in the study borasses in a short consultation. In the actual situation outlined, there was a great risk of our work. It was not to be underestimated which students proved themselves under the new predictions and which others would now manage. The experience gained so far, particularly in Wrocław, but also in Gdansk, Königsberg and Greifswald, has shown to our greatest pleasure that the working rhythm of our university has been able to transform these students. It is also worth remembering the educational work done by the NSD. student federation and the BADSt. precisely in relation to such problems. 16