Appeal on behalf of German Educational Reconstruction, by the President, Sir Ernest Barker , F.B.A., D. Litt. , LL.D.
Contributions will be gratefully acknowledged and should be addressed to [address removed]
German Educational Reconstruction, a Society for promoting Anglo-German educational relations, was founded in 1942. Its first President was Eleanor Rathbone, and its primary purpose was to save from frustration those German teachers who had sought refuge in this country from the menace of Hitler and to offer them a full life. When the war was over, German Educational Reconstruction aimed at breaking through the cultural isolation from which German teachers had suffered for so long, and among other things dispatched to Germany some sixty tons of books and other educational material such as pencils, chalk, and exercise books. German Educational Reconstruction has also invited some six hundred representative educators, ranging from ministers of education to kindergarten teachers, to spend periods of about six weeks in this country for study, observation, and consultation with their British colleagues; while recently twelve German university teachers of history were brought to this country for a ten-day conference in Oxford with British university teachers.