Embossed Portrait Postcard of Bernhard Rust Nazi education Minister

Embossed Portrait Postcard of Bernhard Rust Nazi education Minister. Photo is a separate piece on higher quality paper inserted into the embossed card. Unusual postcard.

Bernhard Rust was Minister of Education in Nazi Germany. He joined the NSDAP in 1922. He worked as a schoolteacher, but lost his job in 1930 because of sexual relations with a student. He was elected to the Reichstag later that year. In 1934, he became Minister of Education for the Reich, a position that allowed him complete control over universities, youth groups, public schools, and science. Rust was instrumental in purging German universities, most notably the University of Göttingen, of Jews, left-wingers and other non-Nazis. Some of these “non-Nazis” included Nobel Prize winners such as Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, and Otto Warburg. Rust believed in educating Germans with a pro-Aryan, anti-Semitic influence. He once remarked, “the whole function of education is to create Nazis.” Rust committed suicide in 1945 when it became clear that Germany was losing the war.