Nazi Policies towards the young

Question 1

What were the aims of the Nazi policies towards the young?

Answer 1

• boys and girls are equal, but different
• encouraged the young Germans to support the Nazi Party

Question 2

How did Hitler put pressure on young people to join Youth Groups?

Answer 2

all sports facilities were taken over by Hitler so if people wanted to use them they had to join Hitler Youth

• made compulsory of all young Germans to join Nazi youth groups

Question 3

What was the Hitler Youth?

Answer 3

political youth group

Question 4

What did the young Germans do in the Youth Group?

Answer 4

• swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler
• attend residential courses - Nazi ideas
• members had to report anyone who criticised the Nazis

Question 5

How did the nazis make Germans as fit an healthy as possible?

Answer 5

• regular camping and hiking expeditions
• ran regional and national sport competitions

Question 6

What did they do in the League of German maidens?

Answer 6

• camping and marching were compulsory
  -rallies and oaths of allegiance

Question 7

What was the League of German Maidens?

Answer 7

youth groups for girls

Question 8

What tasks did the German League of Maidens?

Answer 8

• trained to cook, iron, make beds, prepare to be a housewife
• ‘racial hygiene’ /should only marry Aryan men, they were the superior race

Question 9

What did people think of the Nazi Youth groups?

Answer 9

• did not enjoy being forced to do activities
• parents disliked how loyalty would lie with the Nazi state

Question 10

How did the Nazis control teachers?

Answer 10

• law giving them the power to sack teachers and headteachers they didn’t approve of
• all teachers had to swear an oath of loyalty to Hitler and join the Nazi Teachers’ League
  The Nazi teacher’s League ran political education courses- Nazi ideas
• 200,000 teachers attended

Question 11

What did teachers taught children?

Answer 11

• Nazi salute
• ‘Heil Hitler’
• Nazi posters and flags decorated classrooms

Question 12

How did the Nazi control the curriculum?

Answer 12

• Race Studies/how to classify racial groups, not marry inferior races, Aryans were superior
• 1/6 of lesson time was for PE, create strong soldiers
• textbooks had to be approved by Nazi Germany, explained how the Treaty of Versailles was a ‘stab in the back’ for Germany
• Mein Kampf was a compulsory text
• pupils gathered in school halls to listen to political speeches