Background: Hans Schemm, Gauleiter of Bayerische Ostmark, was an early member of the party particularly interested in educational issues. He founded the Nazi teachers’ organization in 1927. He died in a plane crash in 1935. According to the book’s editor: “At the beginning of January 1935 I was invited by Hans Schemm to come to Bayreuth. Schemm gave me the task of organizing his work into a systematic book.” The editor had some chance to work with Schemm before his death on early March. I here translate several sections of the book. The whole book runs over 300 pages, and is an interesting attempt to bring together National Socialist thinking in a somewhat organized fashion. However, Schemm does not seem to have had lasting influence, since his book is not often cited in subsequent Nazi literature. I do include a link in the text to one of the weekly quotation posters the Nazis issued with a quotation from this material.

The source: G. Kahl-Furthmann (ed.), Hans Schemm spricht: Seine Reden und sein Werk (Bayreuth: Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark, 1935).

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