Mr. Bolz, teacher, Count v. Stauffenberg-Gymnasium, Osnabrück 2005
“The reason is certainly that it is a long tradition to invite contemporary witnesses, that we try to enable our students time and again to enable direct encounters with people […] and that they don’t just have to learn history from books.
In this context, one could perhaps say that the Graf-Stauffenberg-Gymnasium - that we feel obliged to the top priority of civil courage. And we actually want our students - this is how our headmistress put it in a graduation speech just now this year: “You can reflect so much about upbringing, including educational emergencies, problems, upbringing insecurities, but a very important aspect for us is sensitivity , the willingness to help, solidarity for the whole world. That is connected with tolerance. And at the same time our school has made it its program to also face the National Socialist past, so that we try again and again, through or through eyewitness experiences, our students to get used to taking responsibility for German history. "