Education Flashcards
School Law
1920
Ensured all Germans received a standard education for first 4 years
The Gymnasium
Most prestigious
Taught Latin, Greek and History
Realgymnasium
Curriculum merged gymnasia with subjects of the modern world
Oberrealschule
Focused on sciences, maths and modern languages
Aufbauschule
Provided gymnasium style education to poor children who can’t afford
Steiner schools
4 schools opened 1919-25
Teachers required to join Nationalist Socialist Teachers’ League
From 1933
Nazi teacher purges
20% of teachers in 1933
Adolf Hitler Schools
Enrolled largely working class and lower middle class
NAPOLAS
SS set up 39 NAPOLAS
educated future SS leadership
Proportion of school time devoted to PE
Increased 15%
Major Protestant youth groups merged with Nazi Organisations
1933
All non-Nazi organisations banned
1936
Membership of Nazi organisations made compulsory
1939
Membership of youth groups South vs North
South - less than half
North - 80%