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iii„ In special Part/ schools, The KJ
established raany schools of its own in order to train the
future leaders of the organization and of Germany.,
(1) Gebietsführerschulen controlled by the
Gebletsführung (regional directorate), served as
training centers for leaders and potential leaders» The
students were trained to fill posts within the structure
of the Gebiete
In 1936 a three-weeks course at a Geb1e t s schule
included sixty-five hours of ideological training, out of
a total of 175a These sixty-five hours covered political
instruction, current affairs, Helmabend and preparations
for then, singing instruction, and "discissions»" BD 1
leaders wera given special instmiction in heredity, racial
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theory, and population policy,
(2) Reichsführerschulen (Reich Leader schools)
'These schools were attended by the cream of Reich youth.
The HJ leadership training scheme for 1943-1944 listed
fifteen subjects to be studied by the would-be leaders,
and stated the ultimate aim of these course as follows:
"They will have achieved their object when their members
are able, with sure and unerring instinct, to coordinate
historical events, both past and present; the manifestations
of every-day life and all the prospects of our future as
a race v/lthin the total picture of our ideology« It will
To—See the DrTETsh Handbook, p. 799. Von Schirach at p. 138
of Die IIxtler Jugend gives a somewhat smaller number of
hours. ÜUL Jlllü büOhT'ls dated 1934»
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