Eigensinn im Einheitsstaat: NS-Schulpolitik in Wurttemberg, Baden und im Elsass 1933-1945

Although the Nazis strove for centralization and standardization, the results of their education policy varied from Land to Land. The school systems strikingly differed in Wurttemberg, Baden and Alsatia, annexed in 1940. This variety had historical reasons. But it was preserved and restored by the different profiles of Nazi school policy in the three regions. The education reformers in Berlin didn't succeed in overcoming regional forces of persistence, structural path dependencies and educational traditions. Because it were the Lander who adapted central reform plans to the local circumstances. Thus, a limited freedom of design emerged for regional policy makers. Dr. Jurgen Finger is a historian of political, administrative and business history of the Third Reich and currently does research on morality and economy in capitalist societies in the end of the 19th century.