NAZI SOCIETY - Education and Youth.

EDUCATION AND YOUTH. 

• education became a tool for the consolidation of the Nazi system. 
• In the Third Reich - education was intended to indoctrinate its youth in the principles and ethos of National Socialism. 
• This was to be achieved through the traditional structure of the educational system but also via the development of various Nazi youth movements. 

SCHOOLS 

• control was taken from the regional states and centralised under the Reich Ministry of Education - the Reich Minister Bernhard Rust - was then able to adapt the existing system to suit Nazi Purposes. 

1. Teaching profession itself was 'reconditioned' 

• politically unreliable individuals were removed and Jewish teachers were banned. 
• Many women were encouraged to conform to Nazi values by…