Education and Nazi influence in Schools
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- Education and Nazi influence in Schools
- Hitler believed children should learn to idolise him from a young age
- He realised that in the future he may have to call on these people to put up with hardships and to fight and even die for him
- It was hoped that if they were taught to idolise him when they wee young then they would continue to do so for the rest of their lives
- He realised that in the future he may have to call on these people to put up with hardships and to fight and even die for him
- School Subjects
- History: learned about great German victories and how badly Germany was treated at the end of WWI
- Geography: areas of land that Germany would soon conquer
- PE: the amount trebled
- Science: concentrated on weapon making and chemical warfare
- Girls: biology and sex education
- Boys: chemistry and physics
- Maths: students were asked to calculate how much money could be saved by eliminating all disabled people
- Eugenics (race studies): the science of using controlled, selective breeding to improve hereditary qualities of the human race
- Students were taught how to improve their own race and the inferiority of black people, eastern Europeans, and in particular Jews
- The eugenic theory encompassed: + eugenics: encouraging reproduction of those genetically fit and - eugenics: aims to prevent those deemed mentally or physically or morally unfit to procreate usually through sterilisation or segregation
- Teachers had to provide "evidence" that certain races were "inferior"
- These people were often referred to as "untermenschen" (sub-human)
- Textbooks were re-written in order to put forward Nazi ideas as accepted facts and teachers had to impart Nazi ideology as part of their lessons
- Hitler believed children should learn to idolise him from a young age
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