NAZI EDUCATION

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NAZI EDUCATIONEducation played a very important part in Nazi Germany in trying to cultivate a loyal following for Hitler and the Nazis.

The Nazis were aware that education would create loyal Nazis by the time they reached adulthood.

•To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

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•To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

Hitler aimed for a ‘Thousand Year Reich’. Young people were the future, so it was vital to win their support:

“In my great educative work I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. We are cowardly

and sentimental. I intend to have an athletic youth. In this way I shall eradicate the thousands of years of human domestication. Then I shall have in front of me the pure and noble natural material. With that I

can create the new order.” Hitler Speaks, Hermann Rauschning, 1939

The importance of youth

Hitler (and other Nazi leaders) placed a higher value on what children did than on what they studied.

As a result of this, the importance of schools was diminished by the growth of Nazi youth

organizations.

On coming to power, Hitler immediately took steps to bring the education system under Nazi control.

The next slide outlines how this was done.

Nazi education policy

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The Nazi Minister of Education was Bernhard Rust.

He focused on controlling the education of Germany’s young people through three key areas:

1. Control of teachers2. Control of the curriculum3. Establishment of specialist schools.

Controlling education

1 2 3

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Many teachers were pro-Nazi as they had been poorly paid during the Weimar period. However, others were against the regime.

The Nazis were keen to keep close control over the teaching profession and did so in a number of ways:

Appointments: All teachers had to join the National Socialist Teachers’ League (NSLB). Members had to be Aryan and were vetted for signs of disloyalty.

Power: The ‘leader principle’ meant that head teachers did not consult teaching staff about policy matters.

Professional development: Teachers were made to go on special indoctrination camps where they did PE and attended lectures on Nazi doctrine.

Teachers

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All subjects were taught with a Nazi bias: “The whole function of education is to create Nazis”

Bernhard Rust, 1938.

Curriculum

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The Nazis introduced special boarding schools. There were two main types.

Specialist schools

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Education For Death - Disney WWII

Propaganda Cartoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8bCuNiJ-NI&feature=related

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A cartoon from an

anti-Semitic

Nazi children’s book of

1938(Jewish Teacher

and Children

leaving the school)

A cartoon from an

anti-Semitic

Nazi children’s book of

1938.

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TASKS:1. How does Source A show the Jews in an unfavourable way?2. In what ways do Sources A and B give a similar image of the Jews?

SOURCE A SOURCE B

Source A: A cartoon from an anti-Semitic Nazi children’s book of 1938

(Jewish Teacher and Children leaving the school)

Source B: A cartoon from an anti-Semitic Nazi children’s book of 1938.

The headlines

say "Jews are

our misfortune"

and "How the Jew cheats."

Germany, 1936.

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The next 8 slides have

further examples of propaganda

Children would be

brought to the front of the class to see if they could be

classified as Jews or not. If they were,

then they would be

humiliated

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An extract from a school textbook. It shows you the

dangers of Jews and Germans marrying

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The swastika was ever present

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A student schoolbook with a page for their timetable

This book is designed

to show what a normal German

child looks like on the

left. The pictures on

the right show what

Jewish children look like

Jewish boys being

taunted at the

front of their

class.

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From an anti-

Jewish children's book - the

sign reads

"Jews are not

wanted here"