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Schools for All - Czechoslovakia, 1939 Czechoslovakia leaflet: Page 7 of an illustrated pamphlet

Schools for All - Czechoslovakia

Page 7 of an illustrated pamphlet: three photographs of a modern school building, the old Charles University library in Prague and a student painting, with text on Czechoslovak schooling followed by a statement that education is now dead after 17 November 1939. The tell for card-stacking is the paired before-and-after of selected favourable facts (open schools, 'all German universities were opened later') against closure; the fear-appeal is the closing account of massacre, looting, book burning and deportation.

Propaganda techniques used in this leaflet

Card stackingFear appeal
Date
1939
Period
Second World War
Made by
Issuer not stated; no imprint visible on this page of a Czechoslovakia-themed illustrated pamphlet (page number printed)
Region
Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Country
Czechoslovakia
Medium
Leaflet
Issuer type
State
Regime
Czechoslovak Government in Exile
Leader
Edvard Benes
Audience
Foreign public
Purpose
Warn or inform
Themes
Home front, War and the military
Event
World War II
Source
Unidentified Source blurred: contractors, cutouts, buried disclosure
Source
U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Foreign Posters, retrieved October 3, 2026
Rights
Held by NARA, Unrestricted; hosted by owner decision
Issuer not stated. National Archives and Records Administration, 44-PF-772.

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

SCHOOLS FOR ALL

1 A typical modern school.
2 The old University library at Prague.

All over Czechoslovakia were fine new schools, open to every child from the age of six to fourteen. For all able pupils over fourteen, high schools, technical colleges and universities were easily available.

The Charles University of Prague, built in 1348, is the oldest university in Central Europe. All German universities were opened later.

Now education in Czechoslovakia is dead. On November 17th, 1939, Nazi stormtroopers massacred Prague students. Universities and high schools have been looted and closed, the books burned, the pupils deported to forced labour camps abroad.

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