In education, the Nazis wanted to shape young people’s minds so that as adults they would be strong supporters of Nazi ideas. ● Loyalty to the Führer was taught from kindergarten to university.
This Nazi school timetable shows how Nazi ideas became part of the education system. ● Boys were geared toward military service so physical education (PE) with boxing, football and marching were part of their timetable.
● Housekeeping was regarded as important for girls so cookery was part of their timetable.
A Nazi school timetable Lesson 1 Lesson 2 German
Boys Girls German School in Nazi Germany
Explore how youth were treated in Nazi Germany
Key Words Anti-Semitism
Lesson 3
History/ Geography
History/ Geography
Race science/ Nazi ideas
Race science/ Nazi ideas
Dinner
Sport and music
Sport and music
Lesson 4
Physics and Chemistry
Biology/Health and sex education
Lesson 5
PE: boxing, football and marching
Cookery
History books were rewritten to glorify Germany’s past, and Nazi ideas were also taught in other subjects, such as maths. ● This example from a Maths textbook shows how maths was used to teach anti- Semitism (hatred of the Jews).
The Jews are aliens in Germany. In 1933 there were 66,060,000 inhabitants of the German Reich of whom 499,862 were Jews. What is the percentage of aliens in Germany?
Nazi racial ideas in a children’s schoolbook
The drawings in the schoolbook (next page) are used to influence children’s ideas about race. They are trying to portray the ‘ideal (perfect) German’ as somebody to be admired. They are trying to portray the Jewish man as somebody to be disliked.