Abstract
Since the 1980s, national socialist education policy is one central topic of research in pedagogical historiography in Germany. Based on the analysis of documents from the Bavarian State Archives this paper takes a closer look at the actual implementation of national socialist ideas concerning primary education and schools. Bureaucratic mechanisms and a traditional civil servants' attitude in the Bavarian Ministry of Education are found to have provided some important frictions in the ideological change of the Bavarian school system after 1933. The persistent orientation towards formal, legalistic procedures and functional considerations even in the case of convinced national socialists in the Ministry weakened the actual effects of national socialist reconstruction of Bavarian educationalpolicy.
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