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NAZI EDUCATION

NAZI EDUCATION. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany. STARTER: UNSCRAMBLE THESE WORDS CONNECTED TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR. HITLER INVADE JEWS NAZI DESTRUCTION CHURCHILL. IRHTEL. NDEIAV. SWEJ. ANIZ. NOITCURTSED. RUHCLILHC.

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NAZI EDUCATION

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  1. NAZIEDUCATION L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  2. STARTER: UNSCRAMBLE THESE WORDS CONNECTED TO THE SECOND WORLD WAR HITLER INVADE JEWS NAZI DESTRUCTION CHURCHILL IRHTEL NDEIAV SWEJ ANIZ NOITCURTSED RUHCLILHC

  3. To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany • To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany NAZI EDUCATION Education played a very important part in Nazi Germanyin trying to cultivate a loyal following for Hitler and the Nazis. The Nazis were aware that education would create loyal Nazis by the time they reached adulthood. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  4. The importance of youth Hitleraimed for a ‘Thousand Year Reich’. Young people were the future, so it was vital to win their support: “In my great educative work I am beginning with the young. We older ones are used up. We are cowardly and sentimental. I intend to have an athletic youth. In this way I shall eradicate the thousands of years of human domestication. Then I shall have in front of me the pure and noble natural material. With that I can create the new order.” Hitler Speaks, Hermann Rauschning, 1939

  5. Nazieducation policy Hitler (and other Nazi leaders) placed a higher value on what children didthan on what they studied. As a result of this, the importance of schools was diminished by the growth of Naziyouth organizations. On coming to power, Hitler immediately took steps to bring the education system under Nazi control. The next slide outlines how this was done. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  6. Controlling education The Nazi Minister of Education was Bernhard Rust. He focused on controlling the education of Germany’s young people through three key areas: 1. Control ofteachers 2. Control of the curriculum 3. Establishment of specialist schools. 1 2 3 L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  7. Teachers Many teachers were pro-Nazi as they had been poorly paid during the Weimar period. However, others were against the regime. The Nazis were keen to keep close control over the teaching profession and did so in a number of ways: • Appointments: All teachers had to join the National Socialist Teachers’ League (NSLB). Members had to be Aryan and were vetted for signs of disloyalty. • Power: The ‘leader principle’ meant that head teachers did not consult teaching staff about policy matters. • Professional development: Teachers were made to go on special indoctrination camps where they did PE and attended lectures on Nazi doctrine. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  8. Curriculum All subjects were taught with a Nazi bias: “The whole function of education is to create Nazis” Bernhard Rust, 1938. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  9. Specialist schools The Nazis introduced special boarding schools. There were two main types. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  10. Education For Death - Disney WWII Propaganda Cartoon http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8bCuNiJ-NI&feature=related L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  11. A cartoon from an anti-Semitic Nazi children’s book of 1938 (Jewish Teacher and Children leaving the school)

  12. A cartoon from an anti-Semitic Nazi children’s book of 1938. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  13. SOURCE A SOURCE B Source A: A cartoon from an anti-Semitic Nazi children’s book of 1938 (Jewish Teacher and Children leaving the school) Source B: A cartoon from an anti-Semitic Nazi children’s book of 1938. TASKS: 1. How does Source Ashow the Jews in an unfavourable way? 2. In what ways do Sources A andBgive a similar image of the Jews?

  14. The next 8 slides have further examples of propaganda The headlines say "Jews are our misfortune" and "How the Jew cheats." Germany, 1936. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  15. Children would be brought to the front of the class to see if they could be classified as Jews or not. If they were, then they would be humiliated L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  16. An extract from a school textbook. It shows you the dangers of Jews and Germans marrying L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  17. The swastika was ever present L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  18. A student schoolbook with a page for their timetable

  19. This book is designed to show what a normal German child looks like on the left. The pictures on the right show what Jewish children look like

  20. Jewish boys being taunted at the front of their class. L/O: To describe the importance of education in Nazi Germany

  21. From an anti-Jewish children's book - the sign reads "Jews are not wanted here"

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