Nazi: Eduction And Youth Flashcards
1
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What did the nazis change about parts of school
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- abolished private schools
- payed secondary schools/unis remained but only for ‘pure’ Germans and emphasised physical health.
2
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What opened in April 1933
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Nazis opened 3 National Political Education Institutions. These were free boarding schools to train elite group of boys to become gov. Administrators
3
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Who was purged by April of 1933
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‘Undesirable’ teachers.
4
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How did the nazis control what teachers were in schools
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- Decree in September 1935 gave the Nazis control over appointments.
- By 1937, it was almost impossible to get a job if not in the union, and 97 percent of teachers had joined. It ran courses that teachers had to attend to absorb the ideas they were expected to teach.
5
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What was the nazis view of schools role in society
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- Nazis valued schools as places to indoctrinate children, but, following Hitler’s lead, the Nazis were anti-intellectual.
- Most important role of schools was to teach loyalty to Hitler and Germany, physical fitness (for fighting or childbirth) and racial purity.
6
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How was schools curriculum altered
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- Significant increase in amount of sport for both sexes; it came to fill about 15 percent of the curriculum
- History focused on Volksgemeinschaft, a sense of nationhood.
- Textbooks were censored, some were burned, others were simply mutilated. Booklets were printed to support new areas of the curriculum.
- There was race teaching: taught Aryans were superior race, Slav races were inferior and Jews source of all of Germany’s problems.
7
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What did boys attend outside of school
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Boys joined the:
- Pimpfen (‘Little Folk’) aged six
- Jungvolk (Youngsters’) at ten
3.Hitler Jungend (‘Hitler Youth’) aged 14-18.
8
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What did girls attend outside of school
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Girls joined the:
- the Jungmadel (‘Young Girls’) at ten
- the Bund Deutsches Madel (‘Association of German Young Women’, BDM) aged 14,
- the Glaube und Schöneit (‘Faith and Beauty’) aged 17-20.
