The Good ...

More than most Germans, lively, blue-eyed Inge Scholl has reason to remember the Nazis with horror. Her brother 'Hans and her sister Sophie, medical students at the University of Munich, had joined the underground against Hitler, were arrested by the Gestapo and publicly beheaded. Inge vowed to carry on their work. In the autumn of 1945, under Allied occupation, she found a way.

At 29, Inge Scholl was the natural leader of such anti-Nazi elements as existed in her native Ulm. Her ideological friends suggested that she establish a Volkshoch-schule (university extension) to help rehabilitate the bewildered, shaken populace and teach them a new political creed. She jumped at the chance. "Brother Hans," she said, "used to say that the great problem of Germany's moral reconstruction could be solved only through education. Unless our people understand the full meaning of democracy, there is no hope."

Sparked by Inge's ardor and shrewdness, the school signed up 2,000 citizens the first night. For a monthly fee of 50-c-, students could take three-month courses, six nights a week, in anthropology, psychology, music, languages, stenography, drama, mathematics, art. Guest lectures were given by more than 50 of Germany's ablest writers, scientists and politicians. The students soon discovered that Inge wanted them to discuss, not just listen. An anthropology course would start with a talk on racial differences, enter a discussion of the master race theory, and wind up with well-documented proof that no race is superior. U.S. High Commissioner McCloy was impressed. "I think [the Ulm Volkshochschule']" he said, "will reveal why many of us in Germany have faith in the future of the German people."

Last week offers of technical help and money were coming to Educator Scholl from all over Europe. She had a big new project in mind: a daytime college for 150 students to study journalism, radio, city planning, etc. "Our aim," she explained, "is to send experts into society with a democratically oriented background. German specialists in the past have been too buried in their work to care who or what they were doing it for." The experimental college would be called "The Brother and Sister Scholl University."

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