Školstvo i prosvjeta na anketiranom području Dalmacije pod Italijom od 1941. do 1943. godine

Abstract

During April 1941, Dalmatia was divided between Italy and as it was then called the Independent State of Croatia (N. D. H.) With the Treaty of Rome (18. V. 1941) Italy annexed a part of Dalmatia. It was divided into the three provinces of Zadar, Split and Kotor. The people and youth of Dalmatia were surrounded by fascist ideology and propaganda, and education was undertaken according to fascist ideology (carta della scuola) — »School Charter« which implemented this. The Italian fascist powers little by little introduced their own teachers, most of them from continental Italian regions, of which practically all were organised and armed fascists. Many of our primary and secondary school teachers left their positions in schools, and many were arrested by the Italian authorities. Secondary school pupils in Split demonstrated against diplomas Written in the Italian language, and pu- pupils of the Teachers’ Training School in Šibenik opposed in various ways lessons which were given in Italian, so that the authorities closed the schools, arrested the pupils and sent them to concentration camps or prisons. Because of the denouncement of a pupil, school master Čiro Gamulin was tortured to death in prison. Plupils in primary and secondary schools continued to oppose the Italians in various ways.266