Nazi Education Policies

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

A. "education and instruction"- this is one important change made by the nazis because this was a official manual for teachers. The purpose of the schools is to train human beings to realize that the state is more important than the individual, that individuals must be willing and ready to sacrifice themselves for the nation and the fuhrer.

B. co-ordination teachers and encouraging local nazi officials to interfere in schools. Nazis were able to go into schools and take over and remove teachers of their duties if they looked like they didn't support nazism

C. Changing the curriculum. Nazis ideas were incorporated into subjects, particularly biology and history. Religious education was downgraded and eventually replaces. New textbooks were produced reflecting nazi values.

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

Anti-intellectualism: healthy bodies. They made physical activity part of the curriculum.

Anti-semitism: they made sure that every individual must be willing and ready to sacrifice themselves for the nation.

Indifference to the weak: There were co educational schools to ensure the different sexes received their appropriate education. Girls took needle work and music, not latin, then language and home crafts to become good homemakers and mothers.

Nationalism: Local nazi officials kept records on individual teachers, and those who were insufficiently committed to national socialism would be dismissed.

Militarism:Some new schools to train the future Nazi elite were created. There were youth leader schirach formed and 12 to 18 year olds went their of physical appearance and leadership potential.

Obedience and discipline: Once the students were forced to join the nazi controlled german students league they were to be obedient for the sake of Hitler. If they weren't obedient they were none to be not loyal to hitler.

Hitler Worship: Students all studied Hitler. In math they were showed that he helped people. He was shown as being better then the rest and that they were to be loyal towards him. They learned about him in school everyday making it so that they elarned more about him every day making them worship him.

3. What methods did the Nazis use to try to ensure schools were teaching correctly? (This is from Friday's in-class work.)
Naiz used methods like checking in on teachers backgrounds, checking teachers as they teach, changing textbooks to try to ensure schools were teaching correctly. They changed everything and took things out of the classroom that would make the students not believe in Hitler. They changed the textbooks to make sure that everything was about hitler and nazis like history, math problems.

4. Write out a statement that explains the main educational aims of the Nazi Education System. (Reference some of the sources.)
"The main educational aims of the Nazi Education System is to ensure that students understand that our Fuhrer and the Nation is the best. They are to realize this through reading, physical activity, camps, and militarism. Children will have no doubt that our Fuhrer is the best for our Nation."