Typologie und Geschichte pädagogischer Utopien

Eastern Borderlands in German Schoolbooks, 1890–1945

“…Rather, the German conquerors energetically established a German school system for German children, who included new arrivals, both ethnic Germans and settlers from Germany, who were to populate this model Germanized district. 44 Compared both with the regional volumes for other parts of Nazi Germany and with reading books from the imperial and Weimar periods, the reader for the fifth and sixth grades of the Wartheland contains an unusually extensive and insistent collection of texts claiming a German heritage. A unit of the book entitled 'You Stand in the Community of your People' begins with a poem called 'German Heimat', which starts with the Vistula and the Warthe Rivers and concludes, 'come what may, you remain German and the land remains German'.…”