Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Nazi Youth Policies
- Girls
- Mostly taught how to become housewives and mothers
- Aspirations for girls were extremely limited
- Number of female university students dropped vastly as they couldn't get a good education
- Boys
- Taught in history, geography, maths, sport
- Boys were taught in a very militant way, learning about battles and locations of enemies
- Education
- History
- Textbooks were rewritten to distort history and always portray Germany in a positive light
- The French were always seen as enemies and communists and jews were blamed for disasters
- Maths
- Typical maths questions asked students to:
- Think about the costs of keeping the mentally ill
- Think about the payload of planes bombing jews
- Science
- Ethnology (race differences) were taught explaining how Aryans are superior beings
- Girls were taught domestic science and eugenics (how to produce perfect offspring)
- All teachers were nazis
- Jews
- Before segregated schools, jewish children couldn't sit next to Aryans and couldn't visit army barracks
- Before education for jews was banned, segregated jewish schools were used as Nazis didn't want them mixing with aryan children