English Translation

93ag 8) or by the elementary school teachers. All elementary school instructors of the empire are encouraged by a decree of the Reich's Minister of Education to propose their especially qualified pupils in the reception age on the way through their designated authority to the admission into a National Political Education Institute. The admission to the institutions takes place after a preliminary examination in the elementary schools and after an eight- to ten-day trial period in the institutions by the head of the institution exclusively on the basis of the assessment of the character, physical and spiritual abilities of the pupil, regardless of the status and income of the parents, but with their consent. A contribution is required in principle; it is graded according to the economic performance of the parents. Exemptions are available as required. Thus, since 1933, the Führer's demand has been fulfilled at the institutions that care be taken for a permanent renewal of the existing spiritual strata by fresh blood flow from below by promoting talents from all layers of the German people. The institutions currently comprise about 50o educators and educators, and 4500 young men and girls. Reichsminister R u st subordinated the National Political Education Institutions not to the general administration of education, but to a small authority independent in its decisions, the "inspection of the National political education institutions, of which he is the head himself. The institutions are in full development. According to their motto "Being more than it seems" the institutions have so far little sought the way into the public sphere, but they have, after a word from the "Völkischer Beobachter" (Völkish Observer), "set a course for the new National Socialist youth education". Gau- leiter Koch-Königsberg called the institutions at the inauguration of the first Stuhmer Neubaugruppe in the autumn of 193's true German educational castles, in which the dream of the old followers of the Führer of the Education of the Youth is fulfilled. Archlm 75619