GEO-POLITICS
A new type of historical instruction, and a particularly fertile field for propaganda, is the “geo-political” course. A textbook by Heinrich Schroder advocates the innovation, which will soon be generally established.
Classes are conducted as follows: a pupil is asked what he considers a “rightful battle for a common Reich,” and a little girl volunteers: “My conscience tells me what to do.”
The boy is more precise: “We must help provide bread for the unemployed, and we must get rid of the Jews. Wherever one hundred Jews are employed, there is work for only twelve Germans.” (Whatever that means….)
When the teacher invites the class to consider the German-speaking people abroad ( Auslandsdeutsche ), these are the answers he wants:
“We must help the Germans in Russia.”
“We must write to Germans abroad that they must not surrender their blood” (i.e., mix with non-Germans and so become less German).
“First we must fight to make Germany strong; and then we must come to the assistance of Germans abroad.”
The following conversation, quoted verbatim, is the clue to what Schröder and other educators mean when they speak of helping Germans abroad:
TEACHER: Our people have one blood and one language; but they lack one thing.