Nazis wanted boys to be fit
so they would be good
soldiers
Girls also had to be fit to
be good mothers
Hitler Youth
Organisation that boys joined
camping, wrestling, sports and
taught Hitler's ideas
Idea was to produce generation of strong,
resourceful and aggressive men who would be
commited to Nazi ideas
League of German Maidens
Prepared girls for their role as
housewives
Taught household jobs and
went on weekend outings
Healthy women would produce next generation
Indoctrination
Process of teaching certain set of beliefs as facts
Education
Children were taught about greatness
of Hitler. Jewish children were forced
from German schools by 1938. Overall
education wasn't meant to produce
independant critical thinkers but exact
opposite
Primary Schools
Taught stories of Nazi knights
who saved maidens from bad
Russian gnomes. In maths, young
child had to count number of SS
guards, older children might
calculate amount of explosives
needed to bomb Jewish town.
From birth, children were told that
Germans were master race.
Secondary School
Teachers had to be Nazi party members
Biology covered supremacy of German race
History, they were taught how
Treaty of Versailles was unfair