Nazi Education Please read the quote and have a look at the

visual on your table.

Discuss at your table: Your reactions Do you agree/disagree? Why?

Nazi Education

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Nazi Education Formal & Informal

Sally Fillmore, Nathaniel Steeves, & Laura Ells

Nazi EducationPurpose:

To use education to cultivate loyal followers for the Nazis and Adolf Hitler during the Nazi Era (1933-1945) and WWII.

That women would be traditional housewives and men would serve Hitler’s army.

Nazi EducationWhat was emphasized and why?

Hitler and the Nazis did not believe that all races were equal or deserving of education.

The Aryans (blond hair, blue eyes) alone received the privileges of education and high professional positions.

The goal was to educate and elevate

the perfect Aryan master race who

would be loyal to Hitler and the

Nazi party.

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What was emphasized and why (cont’d) :

The curriculum underwent major changes. Geography concentrated on the land taken from Germany in 1919 and on the need for “lebensraum” (living space).

“Racial Instruction” and “blood purity”

were taught.

  Teachers strictly controlled, and were fired

if they spoke against the curriculum.

They were expected to attack the lifestyle

of Jewish people.

Nazi EducationWhat teaching would make the person into a better

human being?

Believe that Aryans were the master race and Hitler intended to eliminate all non-Aryans from Germany.

Nazis promoted physical education in the

curriculum, desiring strong physical youth

who were able to withstand pain.

Purpose of this education was to “create” a

mentally and physically strong future generation

that was blindly faithful to Hitler and the

Nazi Party.

Nazi EducationWhat makes a person count as “educated’”?

The Nazis knew that successful indoctrination had to begin in school. They made sure that the whole education system was geared towards presenting children with Nazi views. Many existing school textbooks were recalled, and destroyed, being replaced with official Nazi textbooks. These new textbooks were used for Nazi propaganda.

History, Biology, Math, Phys. Ed.

Separate schools for boys and girl.

Nazi Education What are the basic ideas about persons or society that

the Nazi view of education expresses?

Hitler wanted to turn the young into loyal Nazis. The three greatest influences on young people were their families, schools and what they did in their free time. The Nazis tried to control all of these influences.

Aryan Race, which was superior to

other races due to its greater

intelligence and capacity to work hard.

Jews were used as examples of those

possessing non-Aryan characteristics

Nazi Education Debate:

For Nazi Education (military driven and in support of all the Hitler)

Against Nazi Education (keep curriculum the same, keep various races and boys and girls together in the classroom)

Nazi Education Sources:

Education for Death, the Making of the Nazi by Gregor Athalwin Ziemer, Octagon Books, 1972

Higher Education in Nazi Germany by A. Wolf.  Published first in 1944 by Routledge (republished 2010)

The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler- William L. Shirer.  Published by Scholastic Book Services, 1961

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich- History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer, 1990

World War II: A Historical Read, McDougal Littell A Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000

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