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NAZI INDOCTRINATION

NAZI INDOCTRINATION. Provided new textbooks and gave teachers instructions on what should be taught Racial theory Teutonic prehistory Pictures of Hitler hung in every classroom Emphasis on physical education and sports Hitler Youth Included 50% of boys between 10 and 14

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NAZI INDOCTRINATION

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  1. NAZI INDOCTRINATION • Provided new textbooks and gave teachers instructions on what should be taught • Racial theory • Teutonic prehistory • Pictures of Hitler hung in every classroom • Emphasis on physical education and sports • Hitler Youth • Included 50% of boys between 10 and 14 • Similar organization for girls—”League of German Girls”

  2. HITLER’S “LEADERSHIP PRINCIPLE” • Defined as “doctrine of conflict” • Tolerated open, aggressive competition between his subordinates and between branches of government • Provided little supervision to government agencies • Valued personal loyalty more than efficiency • Kept precise functions of some of his important officials undefined

  3. REPERCUSSIONS • Army and air force squabbled over resources • SS and police quarreled over jurisdiction • Four-Year Plan • Launched in 1936 by Hermann Goring • Supposed to provide blueprint and timetable for development of steel, iron, synthetic fuel and rubber industries • Goring instead used plan to increase his own powerbase • Other branches of government tried to block plan at every step • Plan failed because of infighting and personal power-grabbing

  4. MEANS EMPLOYED TO ATTAIN POPULAR SUPPORT • Rearmament • Massive public works projects • Increase in consumer products • Cut-rate vacations • “Strength through Joy”

  5. DOWNSIDE • Industry became increasingly dependent on imported raw materials • Development of department stores undercut small shopkeepers • Number of small farmers declined • Despite Nazi glorification of rural virtues • “Blood and Soil”

  6. WOMEN • Nazis believed that a woman’s place was in the home or delivery room • Forced women to give up industrial jobs and also public service and teaching jobs • Certain occupations classified as “women’s work” • Farmwork • Traditional textile manufacturing • Campaign to exclude women from industrial workforce failed because of need for industrial workers during the war

  7. INTELLECTUALS • Philosopher Martin Heidegger praised Hitler and was used as an example of how German scholars supported the Third Reich • Exception, not the rule • Most great German scholars preferred to flee the country • Nazis burned books they did not approve of

  8. ART • Nazis hated “decadent art” (anything modernistic) • Walter Gropius • Founded Bauhaus in 1919 • Stressed simplicity and beauty; function through form • Goal was to reconcile art and industry • Hitler closed Bauhaus in 1934, claiming it was a symbol of “cultural Bolshevism”

  9. EXHIBITION OF DENGENERATE ART (1937) BAD ART GOOD ART GOOD ART

  10. CULTURAL BIGOTRY • Hated Jewish composers • Gustave Mahler • Arnold Schonberg • Censored the theater • Hitler preferred light plays and stupid rural comedies • Disliked anything that represented a loosening of sexual morality • Homosexuality • Jazz • Modern dances • Joseph Goebbels • Allowed movie producers and newspaper editors to censor themselves

  11. NAZI FILM • Subsidized violently anti-semitic films • “The Swiss Jew” (1940) • Commissioned propaganda films • Leni Riefenstahl • “Triumph of the Will” (1934)

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