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IZVa 228 In addition to the resettled students, we also supervised the high school students through oral and written advice. In the first place, we covered the participants in the preparatory courses for the Abitur, which took place here, and the pupils of the top class of the Schiller School in Posen. 11 Economics and commercial science 9 Medicine 20 Arts and music .. 12 Dentistry .. 5 Librarians .... 9 Veterinary medicine .. Newspaper science . . . - Pharmacy ... . 6 Interpreters . 6 Agriculture and forestry science. 15 Foreign science 2 Engineer .. 26 Officers .... 17 Teachers at higher schools 20 Nurses 16 Teachers at elementary schools 1 Theology .. 2 Legal guardians 1 Other professions ... 15 In addition, consultations were held within the personénkreis, which forms the specialist school offspring.« (Excerpt from the report Dr. Ackermann Posen to the RSW.) The advisory service conducted a total of 700 oral and 280 written consultations from November 1939 to May 1940. The South Tyrolean students were advised in Jnnsbruck by the clerk of the Studentenwerk cand. phil. Serinzi and the head of the district office Bavaria of the advisory service Dr. Schuh. Jn cooperation with the university was clarified at the same time the questions of the crediting of the semesters studied at the Italian universities and passed exams. As with the Reichsdeutsche students, probation in the employment service and in the Wehrmacht is the precondition for a further promotion. 5. Aptitude tests and preparatory examinations. For the examination of the study suitability and preparation for the Reichsdeutsche Ausbildung various courses were carried out by the university officer in Poznan Dr. Streit at the suggestion of the advisory service of the Reich Studentenwerk. »The students of medicine were by us in the Jeit until 15 April 1940 for the performance of a nursing or medical examination. This was mainly because we had to find that in very many cases the popular and balten German students had not started their studies from the desire for the profession of a doctor, but only saw a purely scientific matter in this one. The practical service should once open the eyes of students to the requirements of their later profession and at the same time give us a possibility of selection in terms of promotion. This establishment has proven itself. When the students of law and economics were sluiced through the advisory services, there was a complete difference between their previous training and the German demands. (The former training centred on liberalist-Western European legal and economic views and lacked any orientation on the practical.) Therefore, the advisory service drew up the plan of two retraining courses, worked out with the competent technical authorities and then realized by the presiding curator of the University of Poznan. These two courses, which have been running since the beginning of February, enable the more mature students to finish their exams in the summer and to respond to the new requirements in the most intensive form.