“The teaching seemed inefficient,” an English public school pupil, who had spent several weeks in Germany as an exchange student, writes in the Manchester Evening Chronicle. “French lessons consisted merely of translating the Leader’s speeches, as reported in the French papers, back into German. Since most of the pupils knew all the Leader’s speeches by heart, it cannot have been very difficult.”
But this teaching is not “inefficient”; it serves its purpose. The pupils are not learning French; they are being taught the National Socialist language.
More attention is given to English, principally because it will be useful in carrying out the great aim of world conquest by the Nazis. The teaching of English is begun early in the life of the school-child; the subject has been making headway, and is now one of the major courses, for Nazi propaganda in Anglo-Saxon countries is being given its due.