Education and Youth

Question 1

What was the main reason of the school system?

Answer 1

To indoctrinate the younger generation

Question 2

How did the education system change?

Answer 2

Schools centralised under Reich ministry of Education, ‘unreliables’ removed from teaching, Nationalist Socialist Teachers League created, Head teachers had to be members of the Nazi party

Question 3

What subjects were emphasized?

Answer 3

PE (strength and fitness), German/History (heroism and nationalism), Biology (racial genetics)

Question 4

What schools were created to produce Nazi elite?

Answer 4

Napolas (state boarding schools ran by SS), Adolf Hitler schools and Ordensburgen (produced elite for Hitler)

Question 5

What were the results of the new schools?

Answer 5

Nazis opened very few schools, numbers joining the teaching profession declined, fall in standards, Grammar schools > Nazi schools

Question 6

What was the Hitler Youth?

Answer 6

The youth groups in Germany that aimed to convince the youth of Nazi ideas

Question 7

How much of the younger population were part of HY in 1936?

Answer 7

60%

Question 8

When did Hitler Youth become compulsory?

Answer 8

1939

Question 9

What activities were common in the Hitler Youth?

Answer 9

Boys - those that resembled the role of a soldier
Girls - those that resembled the role of a mother

Question 10

What groups opposed Hitler Youth?

Answer 10

Edelweiss Pirates and Swing Youth