Youth

Question 1

Why was there a purge of teachers at school and university level?

Answer 1

lacked appropriate racial credentials or political views

Question 2

What happened to many leading academics/

Answer 2

forced into emigration

Question 3

What influence did Nazis have over what was taught in Maths?

Answer 3

arithmetic sums relating to the distance covered in certain times by tanks, infantr and batallion

exercises that propagated a certain worldview

Question 4

What was Rassenkunde?

Answer 4

new subject introduced on nazi views of heredity and racial purity - pupils wrote essays on the features characteristic of the racial group of their chose relative

Question 5

The curriculum was altered to more emphasis on what subjects?

Answer 5

sport

community service

Question 6

How was the system altered to put more emphasis on sports?

Answer 6

sport made compulsory even at uni level

Question 7

What was the importance of community service?

Answer 7

inculcate a sense of community

cheap labour

Question 8

Were the nazi youth organisations popular?

Answer 8

enjoyed expeditions and comradeship engendered by activities such as hiking and camping etc.

December 1936 Hitler youth given official status alongside school and home as an educational institution

March 1939 Hitler youth made compulsory

Question 9

March 1936

Answer 9

hitler youth compulsory

Question 10

How successful were the nazi organisation in inculcating a nazi world view in those who participated in them?

Answer 10

many young people simply just conformed to the minimum extent necessary to avoid sanctions

Question 11

What subcultures did young people develop?

Answer 11

Alternative youth group Eldeweiss Pirates

The dresden mob

swing movement

Question 12

What social class did these groups primarily consist of?

Answer 12

working class

swing movement largely supported by middle class enthusiasts for decadent jazz music

Question 13

How did the Hitler Youth appeal to young people’s want of freedom?

Answer 13

as a rival to traditional authorities of home and school it could to some extent serve as a ‘counter-authoritarian sanctuary’

Question 14

How did the Hitler Youth eliminate competitors and develop Nazi forms of organisation and militaristic education?

Answer 14

compulsion and prohibitions

incentives and enticements

Question 15

What contradictions arose between the these objective of youth policy and particularly the different methods of realising them?

Answer 15

conscription robbed HY of older youth leaders

competition between rival authorities of school

ideological content of national socialism too vague

Question 16

What was the vague ideological content of national socialism taught to HY?

Answer 16

racial and national arrogance

traditional pedagogic humanism

the model of the front line soldier

idea that there as an especially profound and valuable German culture

back-ward agrarian romanticism

enthusiasm for modern technology

Question 17

What measures did the campaign to bring everyone into the ranks of the Hitler Youth take?

Answer 17

disciplinary and surveillance measured to enforce youth service made even harmless meetings of friends and clique criminal offences

Question 18

What did the Hitler Youth patrols provoke?

Answer 18

general indignation

Question 19

What was the ideology of the Edelweiss Pirates?

Answer 19

no direct ideological line of descent

fixation on sexual repression

wish to avoid educative incursions of adults and the daily experiences of denunciations and punshments by the national socialist institutions

Question 20

Why was it difficult for the Edelweiss pirates to take their long journeys during the holidays?

Answer 20

bans on travel and restrictions on freedom of movement caused by the system of food ration cards and police checks

Question 21

Despite restrictions on movement how did the Edelweiss pirates manage to make ends meet?

Answer 21

casual work, hitched lifts joined up with other hitch hikers

Question 22

What did the Edelwiess Pirates’ freedom of movement demonstrate?

Answer 22

he existence and vitality of informal structures of support and communication even in the bureaucratised war economy of the third reich

Question 23

What did the Edeweiss Pirate’s meetings after work make possible?

Answer 23

the development of identities that distinguised the working-class subcultures of the edelweiss pirates from the dominant, official culture of the Hitler Youth

Question 24

What were the two views on the antics of Edelweiss Pirates by the state functionaries?

Answer 24

child pranks- result of degeneration of youth caused by war and waning appeal of HY

or

conspiracy, search for secret instigators a projection of their own familiar schemata onto a movement they didnt understand