5. Social Policies: The Youth

Question 1

Quote about the youth by Hitler

Answer 1

“He alone who owns the youth, owns the future”

Question 2

What did Hitler believe shouldn’t be between the State and the German citizens?

Answer 2

Hitler believed there shouldn’t be any independent organisation standing between the State and the individual

Question 3

What did Hitler give individuals none of during the Nazi regime?

Answer 3

Hitler gave individuals no private space to either think or act independently about the regime

Question 4

Why did the Nazis believe that all Germans must be made to conform to the norms of the regime?

Answer 4

Because it would allow the Nazis to achieve their ultimate goal

Question 5

Ultimate goal of the Nazi Party (German word)

Answer 5

Volksgemeinschaft (the people’s community)

Question 6

What community did the Nazis want to create?

Answer 6

A community in which everyone would be loyal, show self-discipline and readiness to make personal sacrifices

Question 7

Imbue

Answer 7

Metaphorically inject

Question 8

What did the Nazis want to imbue in every man?

Answer 8

Fighting spirit

Question 9

What did the Nazis want women to be willing to do?

Answer 9

To be willing to place their bodies at service of the State by having large numbers of children

Question 10

What men and women did the Nazis wish to create through policies?

Answer 10

They wanted to create a new German man and a new German woman

Question 11

Who did social engineering start with?

Answer 11

The German youth

Question 12

Why did young people like the Nazis? (3)

Answer 12

They were being taught to like the Nazis in schools
Made to feel special and given power
Hitler Youth provided children with opportunities that they may not get from anything else (e.g. a holiday)

Question 13

How did the Nazis make sure they had control over children IN school? (4)

Answer 13

Anti-Nazi teachers fired
Nazi race science taught
Jews had separate desks and eventually separate schools
Curriculum totally changed (E.g. maths was taught in order to teach kids the profits that Germany would make by becoming ‘pure’)

Question 14

How did the Nazis make sure they had control over children OUTSIDE of school? (3)

Answer 14

Hitler Youth (mandatory in 1943)
Hitler Youth encouraged children to report to the Nazis when their parents spoke out against the regime
Those against the Nazis were punished or killed

Question 15

Where were students who were identified as future potential Nazi leaders sent to?

Answer 15

Napolas - National Political Educational Institutions

Question 16

What did the Napolas involve?

Answer 16

Intense academic and physical training to ensure that children were ready to become Nazi leaders

Question 17

Between 1933-34 what percentage of university lecturers were replaced? What were the reasons for this?

Answer 17

15% of university lecturers replaced
1/3 for racial reasons
1/2 for political reasons (views not aligning with Nazis)

Question 18

What became compulsory for university students?

Answer 18

All students had to train as a soldier for 1 month for every year spent studying