not present themselves in the same way to all men. The Negro or the Jew will view the same world in a different light from the German investigator". Erika Mann, the daughter of Thomas Mann, wrote an exposé of the Rust system in 1938, School for Barbarians, followed in 1941 by Gregor Ziemer's Education for Death. Death Rust reportedly committed suicide on 8 May 1945, when Germany surrendered to Allied forces. Spelling reform Rust prepared a reform of German orthography, and his fairly-extensive version corresponded to the ideas of the spelling reformers of the 1970s (lowercase common nouns, elimination of lengthening symbols). The attempt met internal resistance of the Reich's ministry. The German orthography reform of 1944 also failed. Before those failures, the rules of the reform had been printed in millions of copies intended for classroom use and published in numerous newspapers. The 1944 reform was postponed on the orders of Hitler because it was "not important for the war effort". Some of Rust's innovations had, however, found their way into the 1942 Duden, such as the spelling of the word Kautsch for Couch, which persisted into the 1980s. Many of the proposed changes were finally implemented with the German orthography reform of 1996. References External links Short biography of Rust 1883 births 1945 deaths 1945 suicides Christian fascists Gauleiters German Army personnel of World War I German Protestants German Völkisch Freedom Party politicians Holocaust perpetrators in Germany Members of the Academy for German Law Members of the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic Members of the Reichstag of Nazi Germany Militant League for German Culture members National Socialist Working Association members Nazi Germany ministers Nazi human subject research Nazi Party officials Nazi Party politicians Nazis who committed suicide in Germany People from the Province of Hanover Politicians from Hanover Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 1st class Recipients of the Iron Cross (1914), 2nd class Sturmabteilung personnel