Colegio Pestalozzi () is a German international

school A school is the educational institution (and, in the case of in-person learning, the Educational architecture, building) designed to provide learning environments for the teaching of students, usually under the direction of teachers. Most co ...

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Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob ...

. It is governed by the Asociación Cultural Pestalozzi. It serves kindergarten through secondary school: Colegio Pestalozzi offers elementary and secondary education as well as an "initial level" for children from two to five years. It was founded in 1934 by Dr. Ernesto Alemann, an Argentine of Swiss origin. It was founded in opposition to the

Nazi regime Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

that was prevalent in Germany at the time, as a consequence of the incoming migration from Germany into Argentina. The school welcomed many pedagogues that were fleeing Germany for political reasons, as well as many

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, mostly secular, students. Colegio Pesalozzi houses the first

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in Buenos Aires (and the first outside of Europe), a plate that commemorates the victims of Nazism. Alemann's aim was to create a place for free and humanistic education in accordance with the thoughts of the Swiss pedagogue

Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (; ; ; 12 January 1746 – 17 February 1827) was a Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer who exemplified Romanticism in his approach. He founded several educational institutions both in German- and French-speaking ...

, where the values of the central European culture and the German language could be upheld.

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