Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands Perrillo Jonna
Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands Perrillo Jonna Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in…
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Educating the Enemy: Teaching Nazis and Mexicans in the Cold War Borderlands Perrillo Jonna
Compares the privileged educational experience offered to the children of relocated Nazi scientists in Texas with the educational disadvantages faced by Mexican American students living in the same city.Educating the Enemy begins with the 144 children of Nazi scientists who moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1946 as part of the military program entitled Operation Paperclip. Though born into a fascist enemy nation, the German children were quickly integrated into the schools and, by proxy, American society. These German children were bussed daily from a military outpost to four El Paso public schools.
Their rapid assimilation offered evidence that American public schools played a vital role in ensuring the victory of democracy over fascism.Jonna Perrillo not only tells this fascinating story of Cold War educational policy, but she draws an important contrast with