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Success of indoctrination of youth in Germany 1933-39 (In School (Change…
Success of indoctrination of youth in Germany 1933-39
What is needed for success?
Numbers (in Nazi youth organisations)
Opposition/grumbling
Persistence of Nazi values into adulthood after 1945
In School
Changing Teachers
Teachers would be fired for going against Nazi ideology and being against Nazism or their hold on the Church
Change books/textbooks
It was easy to change books/textbooks to suit Nazi needs
Textbooks: eg. The reason Germany lost WW1 was because the Jews were spies and sold out German secrets
Books: eg. The bible. An Aryan chapter was added and it was also claimed Jesus was Aryan. Jews were made out to be bad and violently against Christianity.
Change Schools
Change curriculum/timetables
More PE to support Nazi ideals of the perfect Aryan Man/soldier/mother
More biology about Aryan and "genetics"
Race studies taught that Aryans were superior and should not marry inferior Jews
Mein Kampf becomes a compulsory text to read in school
History lessons criticized communism and the Treaty of Versailles
Girls took different lessons from boys: domestic science, cookery, and needlework
Maths problems were directed to be pro-Nazi, anti-Jew or whatever they were mainly against at the time: eg. "The Jews are aliens in Germany. In 1933 there were 66,060,000 people in Germany of whom 499,862 were Jews. What is the percentage of aliens in Germany"
School was not compulsory after 14. Instead school was voluntary and boys and girls were separated
Perhaps to keep them from becoming "too smart for their own good)
Instead they had to join youth groups which enforced Nazi ideals
Out of School
Hitler Youth (boys)
Becomes compulsory in 1936 and by 1937 there were 7,000,000 members
Slowly takes the places of church groups
Taught boys the ideology of Nazis and how to be the perfect German
Started from 6: Pimpf (little fellows)
10: Jungvolk (Young Germans)
10-14: Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth)
BDM (League of German Maidens) (girls)
Taught girls the Nazi view that they were inferior from a young age
10-14: Yung Madel (Young Maidens)
14-18: Bund Deutscher Madel (League of German maidens)
Opposition
Some parents disliked their children being taught to be loyal to Nazis above all else
Some young people disliked the rules, uniforms, regimented activities, and marching
Some started opposition youth groups like the Edelweiss Pirates
Methods
Guilt-tripping
By making every other non-religious group possible Nazi, the people that weren't were guilt-tripped by their friends and neighbours
Propoganda
Forcing cooperation
Making youth groups compulsory in 1936
