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ליקוטי שמואל — Va'eira 5781

Выпуск: ליקוטי שמואל — Va'eira 5781. Темы: health_mind. Поисковые термины: здоровье, психология, стресс, health, mental, בריאות, נפש. Eisikovits Eisikovits1@gmail.com 2 Nazi Germany used student exchanges with US prep schools to promote propaganda Founder urged schools to continue program even after Kristallnacht; exchanges appeared to have some success in persuading American partners to give Nazi regime benefit of the doubt By HELEN ROCHE THE CONVERSATION via AP — In the summer of 1935, the Nazi government hijacked a student exchange program between leading American and German schools. In his role as state secretary of the Third Reich’s ministry of the interior, Reinhard’s father, Hans Pfundtner, was one of the key architects of the Nuremberg Laws, which demoted Jews and Gypsies to a pariah status within Nazi Germany, and which were instrumental in the Holocaust’s genesis. 23, 1935, Lillard assured Pfundtner that his “excellent letter replying to… questions about the Olympic Games” had been “quoted by several of our good newspapers, and was included in the Associated Press service throughout the country… Undoubtedly, this message of yours will be very helpful in submerging some of the false propaganda.” Failed hopes for peace Many leading American prep schools took part in the Napola exchange program each year following 1935, including Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts and Phillips Academy Exeter in New Hampshire, St. Even after the “Night of Broken Glass” (Kristallnacht) pogrom in November 1938, in which over 7,000 Jewish businesses and over 250 synagogues in German territories were destroyed, Lillard still urged principals at the prep schools that were part of the Napola-ISF exchange to continue the program into the 1939-40 academic year. In a letter written after that event, Lillard said “If we continue to bring the boys together, something constructive may be accomplished; whereas, if we abandon all efforts in the direction of Germany, we are closing the opportunity for the future leaders to be enlightened…” 5 Despite the controversial nature of the exchange program, many of the schools whose archives I consulted for my book were most helpful and curious to learn more about their institutions’ unsuspected connections with the Third Reich. In response to negative media coverage on the violent persecution of Jewish Germans and other minorities tha

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ליקוטי שמואל

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29 декабря 2021 г.

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Темы: health_mind