English Translation

National Socialist German Workers' Party Party-Kanzlei The head of the party law firm Führerhauptquartier, the 2.6.1943 Ducteibetbindungsftelle at Ryto utehtocin Böhmen u. Mähcen Cingegingen on: 1 I. VI. 1943 Circular No.87/43. jelert en: Sipt: om: Cobeitet om : Subject: School holidays 1943. The Minister of Education will publish the following decree with my consent. After that, the local school authorities will reduce the summer holidays in 1943 in favour of winter holidays. The school authorities have the duty to organise the holidays in close agreement with the Gauleiter. I would ask you to pay attention to the negotiations with the state services: 1) It is up to the school to provide young people with the knowledge and skills that will enable them to produce full-fledged achievements in the future professions; therefore, schooling is important in its context of war. The reclassification of the school year, planned for 1943, must by no means be considered from the point of view of a possible shortening of the teaching time. 2) According to the order of the authorized general for the employment of the war on the use of the youth for the production of the food of the German people of 14 April 1943, the school youth will be assigned to the harvest aid. A postponement of the holidays must under all circumstances take care that the youth can fulfil this task assigned to it purposefully.