Announcement on the Adolf Hitler Schools (incomplete]

THE THIRD REICH [Das Dritte Reich]
Edited by: Gerd Ruhle Fifth Year, 1937
Published by Hans Eugen Hummel, Berlin NW 7. Pages 117-118.
The Way of the German Youth.
At the regional meeting [Gautag] of the district [Gau] "Bayrische Ostmark," the Fuehrer said to his men (6 June):
"You, my brown shirts, you are the fighting troops of this whole development [Entwicklung] you are the representatives
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of this political mission. You were the ones who carried this banner first, and I know you will continue to carry it far into the German future, and when the last man among you has passed by, the first columns of the German youth will already be there. An endless stream of German blood and of German life.
"Thus, generations after generations of our people will march on in our history. With this banner always in view which obligates us to our people, to its honor, to its Freedom and to our community, to our real National Socialist fraternity * * *."
"This German Youth marches in the Hitler-Youth to carry on this banner into the German future. A new great task was put before it at the beginning of the year, which found its expression in the establishment of the Adolf Hitler Schools. The Fuehrer's decree says : T give my consent, after having received the report of the Reichsorganizationslehrer of the NSDAP and of the Youth Leader [Jugend Fuehrer] that the National Socialist Schools to be built which are also supposed to serve as preliminary schools (Vorschuler) for the National Socialist Ordensburg may carry my name.'
Berlin, 15 Jan 1937 Adolf Hitler."
Two days later, the Reich Youth Leader [Reichsjugendfueh-rer] Party-member von Schirach, and the Reichsorganisationsleiter of the NSDAP, Party-member Dr. Ley, together made the following statement:
The Fuehrer has issued the above decree concerning the AdolfHitler-Schools of the NSDAP, on the basis of a plan which had been worked out by us in cooperation with each other. Therewith NSDAP and the Hitler Youth have received the new enormous task which reaches far beyond the present into the distant future.
Further details concerning the Adolf-Hitler-Schools will not yet be published today. But in order to avoid confusion, we state the following principles:
1. The Adolf-Hitler-Schools are units of the Hitler-Youth, and come under its jurisdiction. Directives regarding the subjects to be taught, the curriculum and the teachers staff will be issued coherently throughout the Reich by the undersigned Reich leaders.
2. The Adolf-Hitler-School comprises six classes. Generally admission takes place upon the completion of the 12th year.
3. Admitted shall be such boys who have proved themselves to be outstanding in the German Junior Hitler Youth [Jungvolk], and who are recommended by their competent superiors.
4. The training in the Adolf-Hitler-Schools is free of charge.
5. The supervision of the Schools falls under the jurisdiction of the district leader of the NSDAP [Hoheitsrechte des Gauleiters], Either he himself exercises the right of supervision, or he transfers its execution to the Educational Bureau of the District [Gauschulungsampt].
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6. After a successful examination any career in the Party and in the Reich is open to the Adolf-Hitler-Student.
Munich, 17 Jan. 1937 The Reichsorganisationsleiter of the NSDAP Dr. -Ley The Youth Leader of the German Reich Baldur V. Schirach
The creation of these schools is a revolutionary feat of decisive significance. Through these schools any one gifted enough is being given a fair chance—in National Socialist realization of a word, which during the liberalistic period, always remained a misunderstood demand only. This chance is now open to any young German who according to his character and his achievements appears to be called upon to fill a responsible position in the National Socialist Reich—without regard to the economic or social position of his parents, and the means at his disposal.
This is true socialism, not the equalization of people who are not on the same level, but the creation of equal possibilities to rise. Whatever road the individual fellow-German [Volksgenosse] wants to follow, then shall depend on his achievements and on his character. The first gathering of selected educators for the Adolf-Hitler-Schools took place from the 7th till the 13th March in Potsdam. And already on 19 April the first classes of the Adolf-Hitler-Schools were opened at the Ordensburg Groes-sinsee.