Youth Volksgemeinschaft

Question 1

what was education in nazi reich intended to do

Answer 1

indoctrinate youth to allow for ‘survival of new order’

Question 2

what did law of 1934 mean

Answer 2

control over education centralised under reich ministry education - led by reich minister Bernhard rust

Question 3

by 1937 how many teachers on special courses

Answer 3

97% educated on nazi ideology

Question 4

how much emphasis on PE

Answer 4

15% - become forefront for athletic aryan race

Question 5

how was education used on academic front

Answer 5

-biology - coached on population policy etc

Question 6

how did hitler utilise schools for political

Answer 6

elite schools - 10 Adolf hitler schools to prepare for diplomatic leadership

Question 7

what can hitler youth be referred to as

Answer 7

HJ ( in German)

Question 8

who led hitler youth and when did it become compulsory

Answer 8

baldur von schirach

-1939

Question 9

what percentage of teachers where member nazi party in 1936

Answer 9

32%

Question 10

who came under threat by nazi youth policies

Answer 10

teachers - non academic ethos of hitler youth

Question 11

how many vacancies in teaching 1938

Answer 11

8000

–> academic standards declined

Question 12

what did 1937 teacher organisation report say from Bavaria

Answer 12

school discipline decline - students in positions power assume leadership

Question 13

how did hitler youth influence decline

Answer 13

difficult to run in war - teens resent military

Question 14

what was BDM

Answer 14

band German maidens

Question 15

what did BDM leader say in memoir

Answer 15

-not a youth movement but an instrument to play out nazi ideologies

Question 16

what can be said about success hitler youth by 1939

Answer 16

sizeable pockets of nazi youth not won over

Question 17

example of nazi youth opposition

Answer 17

edelweiss pirates - working class youths 1944 cologne 12 hung for assassination gestapo