We live in politically uncertain times. This makes it all the more important to remind young people of what happened in Germany between 1933 and 1945 during the Nazi era. Pupils from a Cologne grammar school were given this opportunity in February on a week-long school trip, travelling on a total of three buses from Axel Wolf Busreisen to two wonderful destinations: Weimar and Nuremberg.
In addition to the Goethe and Schiller monuments and the city palace, the Weimar group also visited the nearby Buchenwald memorial; the other two not only visited the Imperial Castle and Frauenkirche, but also the former Dachau concentration camp and the Nazi party rally grounds in the south-east of Nuremberg. An impressive and valuable form of history teaching, in memory of the victims of National Socialism, to which we were able to make our small contribution in this way.
By the way: trainee teachers in the state are now being offered educational trips to a total of 32 Nazi memorial sites in North Rhine-Westphalia by the NRW Ministry of Local History and the NRW Ministry of Education. Applications for funding for trips in the first half of the 2025/2026 school year can be submitted until 30 May 2025. Up to 500,000 euros are available annually - and we are happy to be ready with our buses. Against forgetting and for democracy.