EDUCATION IN GERMANY

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 9

EDUCATION IN GERMANY

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BERLIN, August 2S.

. Under tho Treaty of Versailles Gorman universities are forbidden to give, instruction in the use of arms or in connection with any military authority. This is apparently the reason for tho anonymity oi! a book containing six lectures delivered in Berlin under the title "Education in the Spirit of

The subjects covered include individual branches of tho German army, mechanisation, the military significance of transport, territorial defence of tho frontier. There is included a full description of the new French subterranean frontier fortresses.

The anonymous professor, points out that before the Great .War the scionee of warfare was reserved to the export, namely, the soldier, but, just as the soldier is no longer confined to a narrow military 6phero, but has to educate himself in polities, economics, and, so forth, so must the non-soldier be educated in the spirit of arms. Nor can women be excluded.

The lecturer stressed the importance of Press propaganda, saying that had the principles of the latter been understood, Bethmann-HoUwegg, the former Chancellor, would never mave made tho unfortunate remark about the "wrong done Belgium. ' In reference to gas. the author stud that Germany used it only after tho publication of an article in a London paper announcing chemical warfare.