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HARVARD HISTORICAL STUDIES • 170 Publishedunder the auspices of the Department of History from the income of the Paul Revere Frothingham Bequest Robert Louis Stroock Fund Henry Warren Torrey Fund CHARLES B. LANSING From Nazism to Communism GERMAN SCHOOLTEACHERS UNDER TWO DICTATORSHIPS HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England 2010 Copyright © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lansing, Charles B. From Nazism to Communism: German schoolteachers under two dictatorships / Charles B. Lansing. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-674-05053-2 (alk. paper) 1. Education—Germany—History—20th century. 2. Education—Germany (East)—History. 3. Teachers—Germany—History—20th century. 4. Teachers—Germany (East)—History. 5. Education and state—Germany—History—20th century. 6. Education and state—Germany (East)—History. 7. National socialism and education—Germany. 8. Communism and education—Germany (East) I. Title. LA721.8.L29 2010 370.943'0904—dc22 2009036538 To Amy Contents Abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 National Socialism’s Assault on German Teachers 25 2 The Incomplete Revolution of the National Socialist Teachers’ League 61 3 Keeeping the Schools Running during the War 101 4 Transforming the Teaching Staff under Soviet Occupation 129 5 The Creation of a Genuine Teachers’ Union 167 6 The Sovietization of Teachers and Their Union 190 Conclusion 216 Notes 227 Acknowledgments 293 Bibliography 297 Index 303 Abbreviations BAB Bundesarchiv, Berlin BGL Betriebsgewerkschaftsleitung, city-wide union leadership in the case of Brandenburg an der Havel BLHA Brandenburgisches Landeshauptarchiv, Brandenburg State Archive CDU Christlich Demokratische Union, Christian Democratic Union DEG Deutsche Erziehergemeinschaft, German Educators’ Community DSF Gesellschaft für Deutsch-sowjetische Freundschaft, Society for Ger- man-Soviet Friendship DstA Domstiftarchiv, Cathedral Foundation Archive, Brandenburg (Havel) DVfV Deutsche Zentralverwaltung für Volksbildung, German Central Ad- ministration for Education FDGB Freie Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund, Free German Trade Union Association FDJ Freie Deutsche Jugend, Free German Youth GARF Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii, State Archives of the Russian Federation in Moscow GDR German Democratic Republic GLE Gewerkschaft Lehrer und Erzieher, Union of Teachers and Educators GUE Gewerkschaft Unterricht u Erziehung, Union of Teaching and Edu- cation (formerly GLE, name changed in 1951) KPD Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands, Communist Party LDPD Liberal Demokratische Partei Deutschlands, Liberal Democratic Party NSDAP Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, National Socialist German Workers’ Party or Nazi Party NSLB Nationalsozialistische Lehrerbund, National Socialist Teachers’ League
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