English Translation

87 — 7. Gymnastics classes take place within the framework of the state timetable in the morning. 8. The appointment of teachers is carried out by the head of the official German immigration and return office in agreement with the provincial school head. The latter will ensure, through its bodies, that the appointed teachers and pupils, during their stay in the school rooms and in the other places where the courses will take place, comply with the disciplinary rules governing the school operation. It will be assisted by the Head of the German Office for Immigration and Repatriation. 9. The courses allow the use of the reading books used in the corresponding classes of the elementary school in Germany. These books are distributed to the pupils by the official German immigration and return office. The costs of heating and cleaning and for the staff of the courses are borne by the local authorities. 11. The German official immigration and return office undertakes to prevent the establishment of courses or schools without the permits in force in this respect. Against the Ubertreter, the head of the provincial school will apply the relevant measures and inform the official German immigration and return office. Jur Ensuring and providing a sufficient number of teachers for the work of advertising German language courses was carried out by the working group of the optants a voluntary advertising and training within the ethnic group. Although all the teachers remaining in the country, including the pensioners, were enrolled in the active school service, the number of persons who were tested and qualified to teach was far from sufficient, so that an additional advertisement had to be present in the circles of the particularly educationally qualified people of Germany. These assistants were prepared for their tasks at short notice by the vocational teachers in training and preparatory courses, so that on 18 March 1940 the German language courses in the whole of South Tyrol could be opened. The teachers proposed by the Italian school administration were approved by 800 teachers (237 vocational teachers and 563 auxiliary teachers) spread over a total of 25,744 pupils. In addition to this immediate measure, the Reichskommissar for the consolidation of German folklore in cooperation with the Reich walter des NS.-Lehrerbund and the staff of the deputy of the Führer met in the meantime the necessary preparations for an appropriate further training of the South Tyrolean teacher offspring. The responsible representatives of South Tyrol's educators were often guests of the Reichswaltung des NSLB. in the House of German Education in Bayreuth. Jn this 10 day training course, to which the Reich's administrator of the NSLB. In addition to an insight into the organization of the German educators, the best Reichsreferents had appointed to Bayreuth for all relevant educational policy questions, the necessary tools and the necessary teaching materials for their work in South Tyrol were also given to the Bertresters of the South Tyrolean Educatorship. At the same time, the Borausseßungen for a primary school book (fibel) corresponding to the special circumstances of the South Tyrolean ethnic group were developed here. In addition to the training of the teachers currently working in the German language courses, the above-mentioned positions were taken by means of a selection camp at the same time to ensure that the South Tyrolean teacher for young teachers grew up. On the basis of a consultation of the ethnic group for the elementary school teacher profession, around 1 000 people aged 12 to 30 had registered. After a selection, of these 428 candidates in the Jeit from 25 to 31 August were gathered in a camp in the Alpe di Siusi, where they were thoroughly checked by an examination committee for their suitability for the education profession. Since the training procedure at the teacher training institutions of the Ostmark for the South Tyroleans seems most common, their distribution among the individual Alpine teacher training institutes took place. While the further training of the elementary school youth is largely guaranteed by the establishment of the German language courses, the Reichskommissar für die Höheren Schnlen Festigung deutschen Volkstums also sought the further education of the so far to the Italian in South Tyrol