HITLER’S NAZI GERMANY

Young People in Nazi Germany

An Investment in the Future

• Guaranteeing Loyalty to Hitler

• Total Control Over Education

• Indoctrination

Indoctrination

• Indoctrination of all subjects, particularly History and Biology

• Anti-Semitism was religiously taught in all subjects

Indoctrination

A bomber aircraft on take-off carries 12 dozen bombs, each weighing 10 kilos. The aircraft takes off for Warsaw, international center of Jews. It bombs the town. On take off with all bombs on board and a fuel tank containing 100 kilos of fuel, the aircraft weighed about 8 tons. When it returns from the crusade, there are still 230 kilos. What is the weight of the aircraft when empty?

Indoctrination

• History – German Glory

• Biology - Racial Theories

• Geography – Lebensraum & Anschluss

• Science - Militaristic

No boy or girl should leave school without complete knowledge of the necessity and meaning of blood purity.

- Hitler

Indoctrination

To keep a mentally ill person costs approximately 4 marks a day. There are 300,000 mentally ill people in care. How much do these people cost to keep in total? How many marriage loans of 1000 marks could be granted with this money?

Indoctrination

Physical Education – Producing the fittest

Education for Girls

• Different Role for Girls: Kinder, Kirche und Kuche

After-School Activities: The Hitler Youth

• After-School Camps

• Continuation of Indoctrination

• Purpose of Youth Movement

What Was the Purpose of Nazi Youth Organizations?

The weak must be chiseled away. I want young men and women who can suffer pain. A young German must be swift as a greyhound, as tough as leather, and as hard as Krupp’s steel.

The Hitler Youth Movement

The Pimpfen (Little Fellows) BoysAges 6-10

The Jungvolk (The Young Folk) BoysAges 10-14

The Hitler Jugend (The Hitler Youth)

BoysAges 14-18

The Bund Deutsche Madchen (The German

Girls League) GirlsAges 14-18

The Jungmadel (The Young Girls) GirlsAges 10-14

Hitler Youth Activities

• Hitler Youth Camps

• Physical Demands

• Brutal Seriousness

The Adolf Hitler Schools

• Pre-University Training

• The Order Castles