ABSTRACT
Article 148 was written into the Constitution of the German Republic. In a moment of clear vision, the Germans saw the abyss into which national hatreds were plunging unhappy Europe. “Moral education, civic sentiment, and personal and professional service in the spirit of German patriotism and international reconciliation” were to be inculcated in all German schools. In the same spirit of hopeful idealism, the Governments of various German States attempted to strengthen the principle of internationalism through measures of their own. In Prussia the Ministry of Education strove to make the school at once an instrument of international reconciliation and a bulwark of Republicanism. Examination of the school programmes shed further light on the attitude of official Prussia toward the inculcation of patriotism. In the most recent official outlines for the programmes of the Prussian Volks-schulen the patriotic purpose reveals itself. Programmes which support the idea of international conciliation logically oppose the teaching of militaristic history.
