Protektorátní vzor mladého člověka Kuratorium pro výchovu mládeže v Čechách a na Moravě (1942-1945)
Model Youth in the Protectorate: The Activity of the Council for the Education of Youth, 1942-45

Summary/Abstract: The Council for the Education of Youth in Bohemia and Moravia (Kuratorium pro vychovu mladeze v Cechach a na Morave) was a totalitarian mass organization, modelled after the Hitlerjugend and with Hitlerjugend advisers having the main say in it. It was aimed at the extra-curricular education of youth from ages ten to eighteen in a spirit conforming to Nazi ideology, the war aims of the Third Reich, and Nazi ideas about the role of the Czech nation in the 'New Europe'. At the initiative of the German authorities of Occupation led by Deputy Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942) and with considerable support from some Czech collaborationist groups, the Council was founded on 28 May 1942. It officially began its work on 13 March 1943 and lasted till the end of the war and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The Protectorate Minister for Schools and Education, Emanuel Moravec (1893-1945), became its Chairman. Frantisek Teuner (1910-1978), a trained physician and founder of the youth wing of the Vlajka association, was appointed its General Officer. In this the first ever extensive discussion of the topic, the author discusses the tasks and organization of the Council. Its main activity was indoctrination of youth under the term 'intellectual education', and it also organized propagandistic sporting events and cultural competitions, work brigades, and holiday camps. Towards the end of the war it organized the recruitment of Czech youth to dig anti-tank barriers in the Protectorate and the Reich.

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