Rad škola na području dalmacije pod vlašću tzv. NDH u toku drugog svjetskog rata (1941—1945)

Abstract

Following the April catastrophe of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia a peace treaty was signed in Rome between the Italian government and the government of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). Part of the Dalmatian region owing to the Roman peace treaty (May 18, 1941) was thus annexed to NDH. Three big parishes were formed Bribir-Sidraga with its seal in Knin, Cetina with Its: seat in Omiš, and Dubrava with, its seat in Dubrovnik. NDH was in fact not independant from its start since live Italian army occupied the Dalmatian region which according the treaty agreement belom- ged lo the rule of Italians. The best proof that this region was occupied by Italians. I lien afterwards following the Italian capitulation in the coume of World War II (September 8, 1943) by Germans were the documents which school authorities had to deliver not only to the Department of Education, but also to military authorities of the enemy-occupier of the region. In the course of World War II elementary and secondary schools worked irregularly, that is, from time to time according the circumstances of a given region. The school-day was schortened, the school-hour was to last less than 30 minutes or even less at times. Some changes were introduced in some schools regarding the leaching staff; many teachers were fired, some were transfered to another post, some arrested and many prosecuted. Educational policy and instruction were subservient to the Nazi and racist ideology, many new laws were installed as well as new acts and regulations brought forth going as fair as to assert racial adherence etc. Education and teaching was enacted according the Ustasha-principles, subject matter of the curricula changed according the government requirements, that is, was according the interests of the enemy-occoupier, and the Fascist and Nazi politics’ instructions. In secondary schools the anti-Fascist youth organized and offered resistance to this kind or educational policy, the most agressive agitatora were the secondary school-pupils in Knin, Sinj, and Dubrovnik. Many teachers and professors left their schools and joined the partisan war-fare. They worked in peoples' government organized schools and teaching on the liberated territories of Dalmatia, and finally following the liberation of the whole country continued to wonk in schools. Their teaching in the liberated country was based on the ideological principles of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ), and ideals that led them to wage the wair for peoples' liberation.