Nazi Education Policies

1. Identify three important changes made by the Nazis to the education system. Explain the purpose of each change.

A. teachers were pressured into joining the National Socialist teacher's League. Members had to take a 1 month course on Nazi ideology. This is was so teachers would teach the Nazi message.

B. Nazis also changed the curriculum so only their message could be taught.

C. Nazis also moved away from co-educational schools, so that each sex could get apporpriate education.

2. Give specific examples of how the Nazis tried in schools to develop the spirit of Volksgemeinschaft in the following seven goals:

Anti-intellectualism: According Source 14..16 there was no intellectual freedom and education was being degraded. Also in source 14.27 shows that Nazis did not like people reading, it calls an increase in readers a "crisis."

Anti-semitism: As source 14.23 shows, the Nazis tried to relate everything to how evil the Jews were. Every important historical event was somehow related to jews. Also source 14.24

Indifference to the weak: 14.21 The Nazis were trying to say that new homes are more important than human lives.

Nationalism: source 14.22 says that "the powerless and insignificant have no history. So it is basically saying that Germany is the best because it is a very old country.


Militarism: 14.20 says that every subject must be orientated to war. 14.26 celebrates Germany's warrior heritage.

Obedience and discipline: 14.17, if the Gestapo did not like a teacher, they could be arrested. 14.28 shows a lot of discpline too.

Hitler Worship: SOurce 14.18 shows Hitler worship, because every student was requierd to do the Hitler ssalute. Also 14.25 compares hitler to jesus.

3. What methods did the Nazis use to try to ensure schools were teaching correctly? (This is from Friday's in-class work.)
NSLB, fear & intimmidation
4. Write out a statement that explains the main educational aims of the Nazi Education System. (Reference some of the sources.)
The main goal of the Nazi Education system was to create the perfect soldiers. As 14.20 shows, everything was oriented towards war. So basically children were brainwashed into loving Hitler and wanting to be a soldier