English Translation

34 -2- bar as long as appropriate teachers were available. Today this is no longer the pall and therefore the children of the resettlement have to be accommodated in student homes despite all the Bedenlen. The German upbringing of the resettlement children needs not only to be done in the school home, a really good teacher can achieve considerable educational success in working together with the family also in this relationshipærade taking into account the psychological impact. 2. At the last major meeting with the Ministry of Education and People's Culture on 2 January 19943 it was also pointed out that war victims were being attracted, but in particular that there is also the need to leave teachers working in the Wehrmacht's home posts for several hours of the day and to use them during this time in class. The Ministry of Education has already worked through this complex of questions with the Wehrmacht authorized officer and has also obtained approval there. 3. In the last few weeks, a lot has already been improved with regard to the saturation of the school homes by the intervention of the local department. It is known that the equipment is still to be described as quite insufficient. Today, however, it is difficult to obtain the corresponding number of equipment, since already the procurement of a guide picture encounters difficulties. These things have no doubt been given far too little attention. I have therefore arranged for four presentations to be given at the last meeting of the school leaders from 1 to 3 February, for half a day, on the national political importance of the schools and all related questions. The importance of the equipment has also been sufficiently pointed out, since the school home as one of the decisive educational centres and as a cultural centre must be exemplary in this direction. -3-