Category: Racism & Nazism

By Peter Staudenmaier Posted to the waldorf-critics list June 8, 2008 Here’s a quick overview of my recent research. I spent last week in the state archive in Trieste, Italy to work through the surviving documents from an important antisemitic institute during the Fascist period, the “Center for the Study of the Jewish Problem” based…

Parent Ray Pereira: “…for example, the class wasn’t allowed to use black or brown colours, it was only yellows and reds and certain colours that were allowed to be used. Now this was a little bit of a problem I guess for my kids because they see themselves as being brown, and therefore weren’t allowed…

by Peter Staudenmaier. Presented to the conference of the American Family Foundation, Atlanta, October 15, 2004. This article has been accepted by the University of California journal Nova Religio, and is not currently available from PLANS.

Posted to the waldorf-critics discussion list by Peter Staudenmaier (pstaud@hotmail.com) 8/6/04 Walden (awaldenpond@shaw.ca) wrote:

>I have bumped into this quote a few times now at Waldorf sites:
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>”With the rise to power of Hitler’s government, a life and death struggle
>began for the German Waldorf Schools. There was continuous harassment, and
>finally they were closed with the simple explanation…

By Richard House, New View magazine, 31 (Spring), 2004, pp. 51–3 It is commonplace in developed Western culture for the slightest whiff of `racism’ to be unconditionally condemned – an understandable balance-restoring tendency, perhaps, when viewed in the context of the Western world’s own disreputable history in these matters. However, an equally interesting and quite…

Articles in German from 1997 to the present on the web page of Aktion Kinder des Holocaust.

By Dan Dugan Copyright 1999 Natural Jewish Parenting Reproduced by permission: Spring 1999, Pages 40-41 In 1912, Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) had been the leader of the German section of Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophy for ten years. When the Theosophists declared that the Indian boy Krishnamurti was a reincarnation of Chri–, Steiner disagreed. He had already integrated esoteric…

by Deborah Salazar Copyright 1999 Natural Jewish Parenting Reproduced by permission: Spring 1999, Pages 34-39 A catalog that sold organic cotton children’s clothes, books about nursing and natural birth, homeopathy kits, and ecologically-correct natural wooden toys was where I first came upon the concept of Waldorf education. The pretty angel mobile on page 69 was described…

by Peter Nasselstein. A probing analysis from a devotee of Wilhelm Reich. External link to www.w-reich.de.

By Dan Dugan, revised September 1, 1996 I. Introduction Waldorf schools are a worldwide system of primary and secondary schools founded on the philosophy of Rudolf Steiner. In some countries they are funded by the government. Until recently, all Waldorf schools In the USA have been private. Missionary activity by Anthroposophy, the sect which carries…

Ray McDermott and Ida Oberman Research Bulletin: Waldorf Education Research Institute, June, 1996 The Research Bulletin includes an article by editor Douglas Sloan in response to this article. To order the complete publication, send $4.00 to the Waldorf Education Research Institute of North America, Sunbridge College, 260 Hungry Hollow Road, Spring Valley, NY 10977. Request Research Bulletin Vol. 1,…