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Lansing (history, U. of Connecticut) provides an interesting and unique study of teachers' experiences in the Third Reich and postwar Communist East Germany using the town of Brandenburg an der Havel as a case study and focusing on ideological reeducation projects, which began in 1947 and moved the education system from the ideals of classical humanism to socialist humanism. He draws on German and Russian archival collections and oral histories to investigate the experiences of these teachers from 1933 to 1953 and how they interpreted, reacted, and adapted to the Nazi dictatorship, the Second World War, the Soviet occupation, and the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, and how official policies were resisted. He discusses the purges of German teaching staff, the actions of the National Socialist Teachers' League (NSLB) and the postwar Union of Teachers and Educators, and policies such as the 1933 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service and the "reeducating" of teachers in NSLB training camps, showing how these teachers were the same men and women who educated students during the Third Reich and using this case to show how ordinary citizens experienced the two dictatorships. Annotation c2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
