Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
". . . The re-education will be forced upon Germans young and old, and shall not be restricted to the classrooms. It is necessary to utilize the convincing power of dramatization to the utmost. In this regard, movies can really perform a yeoman (meaning "yes-man") service.
The greatest writers, producers and movie stars will dramatize the evil of Nazism under the auspices of an "International University", and will praise the beauty and simplicity of the other Germany, a Germany that is not mainly concerned with marching and shooting.
The Allied movie makers will have the task to show the Germans an attractive picture of democracy, and the broadcasting companies will try to reach the German homes with light entertainment and lectures.
German writers, dramatists, editors and publishers will be continually tested at the International University, for they will all be educators. From the start, all undemocratic publications must be prohibited. Only after the thought process of the Germans (have) had the opportunity to absorb the new democratic ideals, shall it be possible to permit the publication of critical views.
This can then be done with the confidence that the (German nationalistic) virus cannot anymore be absorbed; at any rate, this way a greater immunity can be gained for the future.
The process of re-education has to affect and cover all of Germany. Even common workers shall receive simplified instructions in democracy in their free hours. Here, vacation areas and evening schools, and the like, can be utilized.
Many German POWs will be retained in Russia. They will stay there involuntarily because Russia needs workers. This is not only legal but also prevents the danger of returning POWs from forming the core of a new German nationalist movement.
If we do not need German POWs ourselves, we should send them to Russia instead.
The International University will be best prepared to develop the details of a new German educational system: it can rework the curricula and the schools, and it can select the new teachers and text books. We will need a high command for this type of offensive re-education.
Especially talented German students will have a chance to continue their education at our schools and universities; later, they will return to Germany and introduce a new culture that is combined with the idea of creating a new type of citizen.
Most of the professors (of the new International University) ought to be German liberals and democrats. The use of too many foreigners can be counter-productive, and should be held at a minimum.
However, we must always take care that we do not lose control.
Every imaginable vehicle of mind-control must be utilized. . . The duties of the churches, the movies, the theatre, the radio, the press and the labor unions are therefore clearly outlined.
Re-education will take the place of performing military duty, and every (young) German will have to serve a tour of duty of re-education.
We have the task to save peace and freedom: that freedom that was born on Mount Sinai, was placed into the crib at Bethlehem, spent a sickly time in Rome; lived in its youth in England; had France as the strict schoolmaster, and celebrated young adulthood in the United States.
If we do what is right, then this freedom will soon spread all over the world."
(Source: Nation Europa", 8/1958, a re-translation into English by GANPAC's editor, Hans Schmidt)
Sounds like the New World Order?
Tomorrow I will show you how this plan was implemented in a trial balloon
in 1945, and how it has been since refined.
Ingrid
Thought for the Day:
"If you agree to be a worm, don't be surprised if you are stepped upon."
(Immanuel Kant)