Polityka hitlerowska wobec szkolnictwa polskiego w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie z uwzględnieniem dystryktu lubelskiego

Nazi policy on the Polish educational system in German-occupied Poland with specific consideration of the Lublin district

The Nazi extermination policy had a negative effect on all of Polish public life, including education.  In areas incorporated into the Reich the occupying forces immediately began closing all Polish schools, research institutions, publishing houses, libraries, theatres, etc. Teachers were displaced and some were imprisoned or placed in concentration camps.  Only German-occupied Poland had a school system. Here the occupying forces allowed primary and vocational schools to function. Beceause they planned the economic exploitation of these areas and of a cheap labour force, they needed workers who had obtained basic skills in vocational schools.  The elimination of the intelligentsia was meant to make the Polish people incapable of opposing the imposed order. To this end the Polish system of secondary and higher education, which would educate the intelligentsia must be destroyed.  This policy was also carried out in the Lublin district, which was part of German-occupied Poland.  This article develops and substantiates the above points.